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#600
Well, this is it: the last post of my journal ever (maybe). Six years. Six hundred posts. An average of a hundred posts per year. I could try to distill the essence of this journal down to some theme or collection of a few sentences, but that would be silly. And since I'm not doing that, I don't know what to do. Some things have changed. Some ( Read more... ) -
Auf Wiedersehen
I was going to do another issue last night, but instead of doing that or homework, I talked to Cameron instead and helped her edit her poem a bit. This was completely unrelated to me posting my own poems here. Just a coincidence. Anyway, I plan on making my closing update this evening. I don't know what it will be like though. I'd like to make it ( Read more... ) -
Poetry
I need some more filler to complete this whole ending the journal thing. I've saved most of the poems I've written over the past few years, and most of them only one other person has actually seen. I guess I was too insecure about putting them up here. Whatever. I don't feel that way now. So here they are...
I wrote this one in the morning while ( Read more... ) -
Dartboard
Although I was trying to practice good habits as far as school goes, as soon as I got a three-day weekend, I procrastinated the crap out of it. Surprised? Me neither. So I opened up this box with a dartboard. I've had this thing for decade. Less, actually. I'm not sure how long. I got it for Christmas from some relative and I think I remember the ( Read more... ) -
The post that was never to be
For quite some time, long before I made the decision to finish this journal, I had some rough ideas of entries I wanted to do before I ended the project or it sank into oblivion on its own. I wanted to post new versions of my book and movie lists, this time indicating how much things that had been on there in the past had shifted up or down. I ( Read more... ) -
Re-post from new blog (November 28th, 2009)
Thoughts
Some stuff I've been thinking about around the time that is now or perhaps in the very recent past...
In The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan, there are sections that seem to outline what one might call the mainstream skeptical views on certain claims (about stuff). I've seen pretty much the same line of reasoning elsewhere too, and the ( Read more... ) -
Re-post from the new blog (November 26th, 2009)
Stephen Bahl takes the GOP purity test
I found this thanks to Fesler linking to it on Facebook. The article mocks the proposed resolution and perhaps rightfully so. I don't know. I guess it doesn't matter to me how Republicans run their party. I'm not one of them. But some of my family are. And I agree with my family on some things and disagree ( Read more... ) -
Re-post from the new blog (November 24th, 2009)
Trading mysticism for futurism
I'm critical of a certain type of labeling. When a person's entire set of political perspectives or methodological frameworks or notions about the nature of reality or even identity as a whole is reduced to a single word, I tend to think the people framing things this way are, at best, very lazy. Simple labels are ( Read more... ) -
When in doubt, ramble a little
I'll be doing a lot of homework tonight in order to stay on top of things. It wouldn't be so bad if I'd done more yesterday, but I didn't, so there. This might be my only opportunity to write any sort of entry for today, so I'm doing that. But I don't have anything about German that I want to write about and I definitely don't want to write about ( Read more... )