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Yes: Kilgore Trout is back again.
Sep. 30th, 2015 08:56 pm
Currently at Bancroft: 6. High today: 13. Could be frost tonight, which miraculously there hasn't been yet, in the year I have a garden on the dock. So don't say I don't never get no luck. Fall blew in between noon and 1 p.m. yesterday on a sharp north wind that dropped the temperature seven degrees in the hour at Bancroft and has been blowing ever since.
Oh hi! I just woke up from a coma I've been in since the day before spring training started! I see Marcus Stroman won the AL East clincher for the Jays today! I guess all went according to plan, then. I bet Michael Saunders had a great year. Also, there is a cat in a box by a fire made of a dead tree I cut up, so I guess not much else has changed.
Anyway. I think I've had enough of the facebooks. So maybe I'll write some more things here or something. For instance, something I've been thinking for ages maybe I should write something about is the difference between speeding and murder. I'm not sure I have much to say about that, though, except that speeding once doesn't make you a speeder but murdering once does make you a murderer (and so you think it's not fair if you get a ticket the one time you speed but no one thinks it's not fair if you go to jail the one time you murder), and isn't that interesting?
I still have that problem I've been having for, oh, years now about what the point is of saying anything much anyhow to anyone about anything. It does seem somehow important to keep some kind of record, until I'm conclusively convinced that it's not, which I'm pretty sure is impossible, so. Mostly I still have these urges to write stuff on the blackboard in an empty room, for whoever might happen to see it. What difference does it make who is speaking? I'm not sure what to say about why except that I like it when other people do it. One of the things I don't like about facebook is that someone might ask you what you mean and it seems impolite not to tell them.
I was thinking earlier today that usenet's particular vice was trying to seem smart, while facebook's particular vice is trying to seem good, and there's more likely to be a lot of difference between seeming good and being good than between seeming smart and being smart. (Or, at least, seeming smart to smart people. You don't have to be very smart to seem smart to dumb people. Actually, it helps not to be very smart to seem smart to dumb people. Which is maybe not a very nice thing to say, but, well ... wait, where am I?) Which may be complete bullshit, for instance because I'm sure a lot of people would say that the particular vice of facebook is trying to seem successful or something. Maybe even happy, which is funny, because livejournal's particular vice kind of seemed to me like trying to seem sad. Anyway, see you tomorrow, maybe, or in a few years, who knows.
Oh hi! I just woke up from a coma I've been in since the day before spring training started! I see Marcus Stroman won the AL East clincher for the Jays today! I guess all went according to plan, then. I bet Michael Saunders had a great year. Also, there is a cat in a box by a fire made of a dead tree I cut up, so I guess not much else has changed.
Anyway. I think I've had enough of the facebooks. So maybe I'll write some more things here or something. For instance, something I've been thinking for ages maybe I should write something about is the difference between speeding and murder. I'm not sure I have much to say about that, though, except that speeding once doesn't make you a speeder but murdering once does make you a murderer (and so you think it's not fair if you get a ticket the one time you speed but no one thinks it's not fair if you go to jail the one time you murder), and isn't that interesting?
I still have that problem I've been having for, oh, years now about what the point is of saying anything much anyhow to anyone about anything. It does seem somehow important to keep some kind of record, until I'm conclusively convinced that it's not, which I'm pretty sure is impossible, so. Mostly I still have these urges to write stuff on the blackboard in an empty room, for whoever might happen to see it. What difference does it make who is speaking? I'm not sure what to say about why except that I like it when other people do it. One of the things I don't like about facebook is that someone might ask you what you mean and it seems impolite not to tell them.
I was thinking earlier today that usenet's particular vice was trying to seem smart, while facebook's particular vice is trying to seem good, and there's more likely to be a lot of difference between seeming good and being good than between seeming smart and being smart. (Or, at least, seeming smart to smart people. You don't have to be very smart to seem smart to dumb people. Actually, it helps not to be very smart to seem smart to dumb people. Which is maybe not a very nice thing to say, but, well ... wait, where am I?) Which may be complete bullshit, for instance because I'm sure a lot of people would say that the particular vice of facebook is trying to seem successful or something. Maybe even happy, which is funny, because livejournal's particular vice kind of seemed to me like trying to seem sad. Anyway, see you tomorrow, maybe, or in a few years, who knows.
