I dream, perchance, to sleep!
It’s nearly 4am, and I am still not asleep.
I suspect that it’s because there is so much to ?know?, that I don’t really want to stop.
Perhaps this entry, more than most, will be reflective of my blog’s subtitle: “Things That Keep Me Up At Night”.
I once characterized sleep as a thief, robbing me of useful hours in which I could be doing something useful. I’m not the first to have called it that — I’m sure that Shakespeare had something to say about the matter in at least one of his plays — but it is a sentiment to which I often return.
If “Life is what you make it”, what are we making it into?
Every once and a while, I seem to sit up straight, cast off the blanket of “normal life”, and look around with fresh eyes. During those times, I start to wonder: “What am I supposed to be doing with my life?”
Now, don’t get me wrong: I’m not entirely unhappy with my life. I doubt [...]
In the future, our brains will be merged near-seamlessly with computers…
This is the dream of an increasingly larger number of people, the nightmare of a vanishingly smaller number, and the unlikely possibility to the vast majority. For me, it’s all three, a statement of the desire to have magic-like powers as machines are finally [...]
I know this, but sometimes it still takes it being pointed out for me to remember to do anything about it.
And, given the number of things that seem to be popping up that I forget to mention, if I don’t start mentioning them, I never will.
First, about my [...]
No Album Walk today, as I went to the movies instead, and only podcasts were listened to. Yes, I’ve finally had a chance to see Inception.
I liked it.
Whether or not you liked the film, or even if you have seen it, you must agree: people are talking about it.
I hate spoilers. I like to [...]
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