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Season Greetings?

Every year, religous and non-religious folk gather around to yell and debate which form of holiday greeting is acceptable and which is not.

This. Is. Ridiculous. People are just trying to wish each other a happy holiday in their own fashion, no manner of which should be offensive. If someone wished you 'good night' in their native language, it'd seem cultural, but if there's any sense of religion or personal involvment it becomes an ordeal.

I say that everyone greets each other in their usual form, and everyone retorts in the same way. So if I say "Happy holidays" to someone, they'd reply "Thank you, happy kwanza!".

Wait, is that even possible?

(Sorry for the spelling, without Chrome's spell check I may as well be a fifth grade writer...)

Idea: geek2geek

I have been thinking about starting a Youtube channel lately. The idea is to create a network for different types of geeks to share their collective knowledge through a viral medium. I'd like to take the ideas that spur and grow in my friends and my head and share it in a fun, comedic way. The channel would be called geek2geek (similair to Peer to Peer network) and would feature different geeks showing off creative geek skills: how to set up a media server, rig sound reactive LEDs to a drumset, lose weight RPG style, talk to girls/boys, root your phone, land a job, and more... Obviously I won't be posting my best ideas online.

The only problem is getting the time and motivation. I think it'd be a great experince!

Blogging from class.

I don't blog too often anymore because of my busy schedual, although now that I've downloaded the app for my Asus Transformer I feel that I might write here more often.

I'm sitting in my macroeonomics class listening to people debate about teachers pay and real estate, even though we're supposed to be discussing the Phillips Curve. There's no relation between the two topics.

Oh lord, now we're talking about the teachers retirement plans. What is going on here?! The vauge, desperately vauge topics of economics persistantly bore me, but I do believe in actually learning something in a class that I pay for. I guess I'm just too frustrated to be blogging. Oh, class is lettiing out early, gtg!

[Edit] Looks like I didn't study for a quiz in English. This is just great. Maybe I'll just blog all day, it's not like any of my teachers are saying anything comprehensive of late anyway.

I'm seriously concerned with my GPA this semester. It's been so difficullt to stay on top of things. Grades, registartation and the like have been eluding me. I know that they're important but somehow I keep subconciously avoiding responsibilty. How can I pull out of this trough? I'll work on it tonight, although it's precisely that mindset that got me here in the first place...

[Edit again] Time for my math class. This is quite the arudous task. I was seriously interested in augmenting my mathmatical skills this year, mainly due to its key role in my major. This class, however, has the teaching equvilent of a 1940's audio tape. Don't get me wrongn, the professor is a great guy, it's just that he cannot seem to grab the classes attention, or even effectively convey the material to the class.

There might  be another edit during my Astronomy class...

[Who saw this one coming?]

Just kidding, Astronomy is awesome.

Samsung+Android>Apple+iOS

The Samsung Galaxy S2 was announced back in February and it's still kicking the iPhone 4S around like a little kid.

Engadget.com -- iphone-4s-vs-the-smartphone-elite-galaxy-s-ii-bionic-and-titan

It's amazing how Apple can convince people that they're a landmark company when they've been so behind all the time. I think it's funny that Apple is putting in a 'notification bar', a key feature to Android's success, and Google isn't suing. Apple, on the other hand, will sue any company with a product that looks like theirs.

Know that you know nothing...

So today I had a discussion with an elderly gentleman. He was ranting on about how technology is evil and that things have become to complicated in this world. It's a debate that we are all familiar with. Has the world around us been degraded or augmented by technological development?

As a computer hardware engineering major and general science/technology enthusiast, my opinion on the matter could be quite biased (but then again, who wouldn't be?) I take advantage of technology on an hourly basis and continually indulge in new silicone based toys. On the other hand, I find it deeply important that mankind as a whole should keep in touch with our natural side and remind ourselves that we are still animals on a ball of collective space-rocks that just so happened to form an atmosphere and water. The only superiority we get from being a complicated species is the fact that we can think we are important at all, even though in all reality we are extremely insignificant. Technology is a blinding factor in our perception of the value of the human race, along with social paradigms and self worth.

I began to reflect on how technology has affected us all while the old man continued, befuddled by my Android tablet and terms such as 'Smartphone' and 'GPS navigation'. This particular individual (along with many others) despised this technology because he didn't understand how it worked. Also, it had no immediate benefit to him, meaning that he couldn't take advantage of it without making the effort to learn how to use it. The wheel, for example, was once considered 'new technology'. This man wouldn't strike down the wheel because it was easy to understand. A car, on the other hand, is more complicated, but requires little cost to take advantage of (an unseen variable being that everyone thinks they can drive). Believe it or not a car is more complicated than a computer. It's this lack of understanding of these 'new' technologies that caused this man to despise them. If I had to sum up his views I'd label them hypocritical ignorance. The refusal to adapt and learn about new technology is lazy and pathetic. Gaining knowledge on using tools that advance our well being is evolutionary. You don't bring a knife to a gunfight because the gunman has better technology. The weak die and the strong/smart survive.

The fact that technology conveniences us so much might also attribute to our degradation. We've lost touch with our primal instincts such as hunting and gathering, relying on the productive knowledge of scientists to make our lives easier. This is a major disappointment from my personal standpoint. For example, imagine a post apocalyptic earth with scarce resources and no means of telecommunication (Although knowing Google, their servers would most likely be online). Do you think Betty the 250lb mom in her rascal would be able to survive when having to hunt for her food? How about Steve? You know, from accounting? Do you think he could build a computer from sand? Or even build a stable house without a hammer? We'd be the only species on the planet that would be devastated without our tools for making life easier. This makes me want to cry, because without the years of technological advancement we are really, really pathetic compared to the rest of the world.

Technology does, however, provide us with one sustainable advantage over every known conscious being in the universe; Knowledge. Our exceptional ability to learn is the sole advantage we have over every known organism, which brings me back to the point that if you are are unwilling to learn how to use new technology, you might as well be a f***ing plant. The basis of our evolution has been to discover. This advantage may have hindered us on a primal level, but it has exceedingly progressed mankind to tip the evolutionary scale.

So knowledge is one particular side-effect of science and technology that I find to be the most valuable. We humans are solely responsible for unraveling the secrets of the universe (which, amazing as it is, is still insignificant because we are the only ones who care). From the quantum dynamics of sub-atomic particles to massive galaxies that sit at the edge of existence, mankind has been responsible for learning the properties of... well.. everything. To understand the universe is to understand the only only significant thing in existence; considering that the trillions and trillions of massive stars and planets and other 'things' in the universe have a care value of absolute 0 about anything and everything that goes on in our lives. The only thing that anybody or anything can consider significant in this universe is understanding the universe itself. This knowledge is the base for all understanding. Even the concept of knowledge and understanding can be questioned as insignificant, but considering that this is all I have to claim as my own, I've decided to leave it at that. Cogito ergo sum is where I have to stop as a human being...

I thank technology for its ability to help us learn about what makes up our existence, carry disdain towards it for weakening our species on a primal level and, in every meaning of the word, hate people who refuse to adapt or learn because it's an inconvenience to their insignificant comfort.

I believe the next time I see that wrinkled man I will sit him down and explain to him that our star is in one of billions of galaxies, and that we revolve around one of trillions of stars, and that among these trillion of stars there are trillions of planets, and that the sum of these objects is so ineffably extensive that not even the greatest of minds or population of species can even begin to comprehend it. In all of this massive incomprehensible existence, there isn't a single particle, mass or collection of thought that gives a damn about whether or not you can work your phone.

There Is No Real Death On The Internet

So in all honesty I'll admit that I gave up on blogging due to the lack of regular viewers. It's a viciously hopeless endeavor really. You begin to lose faith in your content due to the lack of followers, and as a result your posts become dull and distant. Every blog should require you to follow 10 blogs during sign up so every user has a fighting chance at getting some exposure. Without followers you have no incentive to make interesting posts, and without interesting posts you will not gain followers... I never imagined it'd be difficult to convey my thoughts to complete strangers to be judged on the internet. (Strange right? Or perhaps its the inconstancy that itches.)

I showed this page to a few friends awhile back and they thought it was interesting. I've grown so much in so little time so I find it repulsive, but I'll keep the embarrassing posts up regardless. Lately I've been so encompassed in other things that the majority of my time spent online is for social networking and assignments.

Even now as I type this I doubt anyone will read what I have to say, especially considering that I haven't said much at all. Maybe I'll devise some sort of ruse on 4chan to bring in some traffic... I swear I'm an interesting person, really.

This may be the death of a blog, or my inspiration to continue speaking in the dark. If worst comes to worse, just follow me on Google+