Category: Life

This is my 200th post! Not a huge bunch mark, but I like to think of my previous 199 post as a (mostly) healthy contribution to society in general.

I was just going to leave this post at the above, but decided to post something a little extra:

Someday, I will complete a more interesting post (one of the ones that I have in draft that are waiting to be proofed, polished and published) but until then I am enjoying going through old works. There is something liberating about finally publishing something that I had written a while ago, recently rediscovered and can now publish (because, generally, these writings were written on my phone and thus had to wait until I got to a computer to be posted).

I was reading some of posts and came upon It is strange when… and made a funny graphic:

I wrote this back in January, shortly after my car had been wrecked and before I got another car to drive.

Recently I found myself being mildly appalled by my newly acquired pack ratish behavior. I blame this newly acquired behavior on the fact that I no longer have a car. Though I get to the store often enough, I have realized that I can’t simply jump in Elazar and go. Instead, if I do run out, I must find someone who in going, or is willing to go, to get the needed items. So, rather than risk running out, I find myself purchasing resupplies long before they are needed. This made me suddenly have a level of compassion for the pack rats of the world.

I made the comment (because the conversation was about sloths) that sloth organ are upside down. Seymour (a roommate) asked if the bats were the same. I responded that I did not know so I started a search. An article called Commonsense For Bats came up. It turned out to be very interesting reading about Human Resources in an  organization. How interesting it is that I can be looking for one think and find something else of equal interest but in an entirely different vein.

(Also, I found this interesting post by Nicholas Carr about effects of prolonged exposure to the internet of the brain.)

(Oh, the question about the bats has been entirely pushed aside by more interesting things.)