Mercury Falls

Mostly just makes-me-laugh entertainment  but then there's

"Certain things have to happen for the Apocalypse to take place.  They're going to happen, no matter what you and I do.  We can go with the flow, or we can fight it, but the river is going where it's going.  We're just splashing around in the stream."

"So then... what's the point, if nothing you do is going to make any difference in the long run?"

Mercury shrugged.  "Splashing is more fun."



YES!

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What if everything is an illusion  and nothing exists?  In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

  ~Woody Allen

from A Country Year: Living the Questions

by Sue Hubbell:

..waves of people who find the cities too complicated have come here, meaning to lead lives of simplicity.  What they have not yet discovered is that a life is as simple or as complicated as the person living it and that people who have found life in the city overwhelming will find it even more so here, where it is much harder to make a living.  When a person has money coming in regularly, his mistakes only make him unhappy but the do not threaten his survival.  Here, where there is little money, every decision counts and there is no room for mistakes.

Last Continent

Rincewind:  Is it true that your life passes before your eyes before you die?

Death:  YES.

Rincewind: That's a ghastly thought, really...Suppose I am just about about to die and this is my whole life passing before my eyes.

Death:  I THINK, PERHAPS, YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND.  PEOPLE'S LIVES DO PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE.  THE PROCESS IS CALLED "LIVING."

Coulton on Mandelbrot

http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2010/10/18/and-i-couldnt-even-get-the-math-right/

"...everything around us is at least a little weird and unknowable and that’s the way it’s supposed to be."

See God, Kai!

The greatest surfer is the one having the most fun.

 ~ keala kennelly

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Wandering around in my head

I started this blog as a place to get stuff out of my head.  Then, I started storing things that made me smile or "spoke to me".

 Then I got curious about whether any one else was actually reading it because no one ever commented.  I plugged in Feedjit and Sitemeter and made them as unobtrusive as possible because I didn't want to intimidate anyone who might be paying attention.  I figured that if they weren't commenting they didn't want to communicate with me.

And there were people passing by.  Quietly peeking into my head. And some came back.

But now, it looks like they've all gone away.  Maybe because I've been posting less, lately.   Life has been busy getting Loki off to Denver and my head has been filled with the mundane stuff of house repair and redecoration without the presence of Destructo Man.  May the lives of my inner compatriots have gotten busy and they no longer have time to peek.  Or maybe they just no longer have the inclination.

I had been kind of hoping someone would say "Hello, this spoke to me/made me laugh/whatever."  But that wasn't ever the point.

Life goes on.  The roller coaster rises and falls. whirls, spins and lurches on its way.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
  - Douglas Adams