monkeys on typewriters

Knowledge reminds us that since our society has chosen to increment our year counter shortly after the winter solstice, we place arbitrary value on that date. The people and establishments of our society tend to use the date to reflect on the outgoing year and make plans for the new one. Reflections on the past year tend to focus on the bad stuff and hence we make plans for a better year the next time around. These plans are often expressed as “resolutions”, which usually constitute empty promises we make to ourselves or others to make us and/or them feel better. Over the first few days/weeks/months of the new year these resolutions are gradually forgotten or ignored by us.

Then, ~365.25 days later, we do it all over again.

Hopefully, in that time, we can actually improve ourselves and our society, even if we’re too focused on the negative to notice.

Happy new year. We’re looking forward to it too.

Yes, influenced by The Show with Ze Frank. Who isn’t?

A recent Twitter exchange.

Me: FUCK OFF YOU FUCKING PAPERCLIP!!
Austin: “Microsoft Office 2008 brings new clarity to your Office Assistant Experience”.
Me: “Microsoft Office 2008 brings”… —bloop— “It looks like you’re writing a letter!”

And now for something completely different.

An emergency meeting of the Taco Widgets Ninja Council has revealed that there may or may not be anything interesting that I may or may not be able to talk about

In other news, it’s been a very long time since I’ve written here. There’s a reason for that. See paragraph directly above.