My Amazing New Diet

Now with my help you too can look as great as your favorite singers and actors, with my method you’ll be burning calories the way everyone in Hollywood does!Best of all it’s simple, no complicated charts or figures to understand, no books to buy, no membership to pay! Nope everything you need you can get from your local gas station!

Here it folks, my three step process to shedding all those unwanted pounds!

Step 1. Buy a carton of cigarettes

Step 2. Smoke that carton of cigarettes

Step 3. Repeat

That’s it! In no time you’ll find the weight disappearing, as soon nicotine becomes more important than just about anything in your life!  For those of you who have the money, you might consider my advanced diet, which replaces cigarettes with speed! You’ll be thin and more productive than ever!

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Not really since I’ve never been able to program anything much beyond “Hello World”. It is simply a place holder as I can’t think of a witty title for this entry. So Zen meditation is so boring. You just sit there, trying not to think, but not trying too hard as that also defeats the purpose. Also 20 minutes doesn’t seem like a long time, but when you’re just sitting there alone with your thoughts it is. I’ve never spent so much time intently interested in the paint on the walls. I’ve only done it twice now and I can already tell that I am not comfortable with myself. I can’t stand to spend more than a minute or two all alone, before I go looking for a distraction, any distraction! I know on an intellectual level that meditation is suppose to help us break out of the “I/My” of ourselves and experience life, the moment, reality without getting in the way of it. This being our problem as humans, we can’t just live in the moment because we are too busy cluttering it up with shit from the past or illusions about the future. I have a serious problem with this, I hope the meditation helps as recognizing it doesn’t help at all, because you are still trapped in the whole ego thing… But, then if enlightenment were easy everybody would be a saint or a buddha…

The joy of “trash” fiction

I just finished reading Drew Karpyshyn’s Star Wars book, Darth Bane: Path of Destruction. I haven’t read a Star Wars book since Timothy Zahn finished his first trilogy, the one with Thrawn in it. Anyhow, I like the Star Wars universe, it’s fun but it’s also incredibly shallow in ways. I’m not saying this to knock on Star Wars, it is a problem that most genre (sci-fi/fantasy) books and settings have. All the good guys are called light and look good and all the bad guys have called dark and are ugly, the exception to this is for evil women who are either young and beautiful or old and ugly. I think my readers are smart enough to pick out the sexism inherent in that fact. Anyhow I enjoyed the book it was quick, entertaining and about as far as you can get from what I have been reading (see my reading and what I recommend lists).

Of course the book suffers from what I just mentioned the story centers around a young man who names himself “bane” and is bald and pale evil. He begins his training in a Sith academy so that one day he can join the “brotherhood of darkness” and now he is embracing his evil. The book is good except when it gets bogged down in this completely cliche, shallow, parody of ethics and morality… Very few people ever see themselves as evil, they almost always believe what they are doing is good and right… I wholeheartedly believe that there are evil people, but they are rare, it is usually good, or misguided people doing evil things. I wish genre fiction could get past this so that great stories in fantastic places can have realistic people living in them as opposed to the cardboard cut outs we usually see…

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