This is the ASK-YOURSLEF post.

I live in a room that's probably less than one fourth the size Paris Hilton's closet. That's just an assumption. I have never before seen her closet on TV nor on any magazine. But, judging from the amount of luggage that she carries around with her, she probably has a really really HUGE closet.

The thing is, ordinary people(like myself) tend to compare what they have with what famous people have. I don't really know if there's a word for it. It's not "envy" because nobody on earth would ever want to be Paris Hilton. I guess it's more of having a wrong perspective. It's thinking so much about what you should have instead of being satisfied and thankful of what you already have.

So ask yourself. What am I proud of? Who are the persons in my life that I'm really thankful to have met? What are the things that I've accomplished? Who was your best fudge? What was the craziest party I've ever been to? Etc...

This is what Tech writers ought to write about.

What would your reaction be when you get in the office and realize that you forgot to charge your cellphone? Exactly. It's like going to the toilet and just when your first poop splashes underneath you, you realize that the toilet paper is nowhere to be found.

I know that my analogy is totally gross. But, I have to say, it's more than enough to get my point accross. Technology is part of our lives. It's like wiping your ass(there I go again with my gross analogies) after taking a dump or brushing your teeth before making sloppy make-outs(I guess that one's better). It makes us do more and it makes us do things faster. Which is obviously good.

On the other hand, it complicates our lives in a personal level. Take the unable-to-charge-the-cellphone example I gave. Twenty years ago, people didn't even have cellphones. That's practically one reason less from getting all cranky early in the morning. And if you're still not convinced, just imagine people in the old days. (Old as in living-inside-caves kind of old). Do you think they wipe their asses after taking a big one? Scientists may say otherwise, but my caveman instict tells me that wiping-ass-with-toilet-paper is unheard of during those days.

Man is a slave of his own creation.

I'm sure I've heard that statement before. And, as much as I hate to admit it, it's true.

I am a slave. I'm an internet slave. That's why I'm writing this post.

It's another one of those cryptic posts that - hopefully - no one will ever get.

CONFRONTATION:
A desperate attempt to force something that's completely unnatural. It is a weapon of choice for pretentious pricks who constantly justify their acts because deep down, they feel that they are always doing the wrong things.

MISINTERPRETATION:
People are generally judgemental by default. And if you try to hide yourself from them, if you try to steer away from confrontaions and from saying what you really want to say, you tend to be an easy target for misinterpretation. However, the people-are-generally-judgmental-by-default statement is quite a judgemental thing to say, isn't it?

RESOLVE:
Go home and watch bad TV.

We all know that our universe has LOTS of stars. Adding one more to the list doesn't make a difference.

Have you noticed that almost every month, scientists publish new discoveries of a planet or a star "in a galaxy far away"? I'm subscribed to a couple of science news groups like National Geogrphic, Cosmic Variance, Science Daily Headlines, Scientific American, etc... so I get browse these articles in a ragular basis. It was fun reading at first. But now, these types of so-called discoveries are beginning to reveal a pattern.

You see, at the end of every article, they try to explain how "this is just a start" and that this "discovery" might lead us to determining how our universes came about. Well, they don't really say it explicitly but that's what I get from my very limited reading comprehension.

I'm not against discovering new things. However, until they can find something that I can really sink my teeth in to, I suggest that they should just lay it off and point all their huge, million-dollar telescopes up their asses.

I really need to get some sleep.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if we didn't have to go to sleep?

If that were the case, then...

• There wouldn't have to be any beds in our rooms.
• Women wouldn't be complaining about men dozing off right after having sex.
• Life wouldn't be routinary. We can spend all day doing what we want to do without any regard for time.
• You can play very loud music in the middle of the night and you're neighbor wouldn't freak out.
• You're neighbor can play very loud music in the middle of the night and you wouldn't be freaking out.
• You and your neighbors can play very loud music in the middle of the night, all at the same time, and the police wouldn't give a damn.
• You wouldn't have to experience waking up with toothpaste slobbered all over your face because your idiotic room-mate had nothing else better to do.
• No bed marks in the morning.
• You can get really drunk and totally shitfaced without passing out.
• You can start doing your homework at 4 AM in the morning.
• Etc, etc...
  

Come to think of it, if we are incapable of sleeping then we would also be incapable of dreaming.

THAT to me is quite scary. It's like living in a world without night. A world where you can never see the stars. A world where you cannot have the chance to be someone else -OR- to be somewhere that's not of this world. It is in dreams where we get to see friends or family that we've lost. And Perhaps, even people that we are still about to meet. Without dreams, you'd be living a life that's totally devoid of imagination. Without it, there wouldn't be any distinction between you and the plant that's placed beside the sofa in your office lobby. You'd be a something instead of being a someone. We're nothing without dreams. (sounds familiar, doesn't it?)

Sometimes, I tend to consider sleeping as a drag. Specially when I'm swamped at work. I guess I shouldn't be like that. Sleeping is one of the best things in life - along with eating and of course, that F word that ends with ING - and it's something that I should be thankful for. So tonight, I shall loose myself in slumber for tomorrow... I get to be someone again.

You see... I really need to get some sleep before I start writing about talking hamsters and dragon breathing fires. Or is it fire breathing dragons? Oh well...

ZZZzzzz......

I say the darnest things.

Everyone has this make-my-own-version mentality. Once in a while, you encounter something nice, like a piece of software. But instead of tinkering and marvelling at it for a while and move on to things that normal people do in life, you sort of get this insatiable "itch". You obsess about it. And then you say to yourself, "I should make myself one of those."

Make. Not Buy, but Make.

What's fascinating about this is you might end up making something that is way better than the one that you tried to copy. Perhaps, it may not even be the same thing anymore. You might just have created something new.

All of this can happen if you have the skills. And of course, if you're practically a delusional freak with an ego the size of Texas who has nothing else better to do - just like [insert the name of favorite computer geek here].

It's a crazy cycle. What you've just made will be copied by other "like-minded" people and so on and so forth.

Basically, there no such thing as an original idea. Everthing we make/create are just bi-products of the ones that came before. It's weird thinking about it. Because if that's the case, then we can say that we are just excrements of the ancient world.

I guess this is the part where I need to stop.

this is what I think of when I'm still up in the middle of the night

I'm pretty sure that it was in that Chuck Palahniuk novel "Fight Club" where I read something like, "It's only when you've lost everything that you're free to do anything." I'm not entirely sure if I got the whole sentence right. But, I guess that right there is close enough.

I like that line a lot even if it has no relevance whatsoever to reality. Why? Because it would make a perfect bumper sticker - only if it had fewer words in it.

If it were up to me... if I were to shorten that line so that I can print them on a sticker... I'd write it in C. Like this:

You = (Life==NULL) ? FREE : NOT_FREE;

What about you? How would you shorten the It's-only-when-you've-lost-everthing-that-you're-free-to-do-anything sentence, so that it would fit on a bumper sticker?