Driving
I saw a couple of different "interesting" things as I was driving. I actually saw the cops using areal equipment to catch speeders. All of a sudden I saw this blimp hovering over the highway. About three seconds later I saw some speeder pulled over and about 3 miles away I saw another cop. Crazy. I didn't think those signs were actually telling the truth.
The second was more tragic/scaring rather than interesting. All of a sudden I saw someone a truck pulled over with their flashers on and someone waving a white light at oncoming traffic. At first I thought it was a hitch hiker or something, then as I got closer the cars in front of me slammed on their breaks. And that's when I saw it. A deer in the middle of the road, it's body in the left lane, its head just over the center line. It's back clearly broken - but it's head didn't know that as it was struggling to try to get up; clearly in pain and clearly struggling with no hope of repair. No one that had passed had a gun to shoot it, nor had the cops gotten there yet. I wouldn't classify my self as an emotional person - but I definitely had tears in my eyes. Really sad.
Somehow I got some mallware on my computer last week. FINALLY today I go it off. It was the most persistent damn thing I've ever encountered. Note to self: don't be stupid and actually read prompts.
For some reason I started reading about corsets on Wikipedia (who knows how I got there...) Women really did some fucked up things for fashion. Many would argue that we still do (can anyone say six inch stilettos?) It's amazing what we think of as beautiful. Skinny women used to be abhored because they were poor and didn't have enough to eat. Now fat women are thought of as ugly because just about everyone has access to food.
Women in the sixties didn't want to wear glasses because they thought it made them ugly. They are almost a fashion statement now. Espeically in the nerd culture. Yes, there is definiately a nerd culture. It's the people that read digg, xkcd, dinosaur comic, penny-arcade, and maybe even fark. It's the people that actually get the inside jokes on the webcomics, play video games, think of their computer as a recreational tool, and don't do what the "popular" people do. The interesting thing is that I think this subculture is almost bigger than the "normal" american culture. But then again, maybe I'm just so ingrained in it that I can't see the forest through the trees.
I'm driving home tomorrow. If anyone is in Toledo over break give me a call! Let's go do something!
The second was more tragic/scaring rather than interesting. All of a sudden I saw someone a truck pulled over with their flashers on and someone waving a white light at oncoming traffic. At first I thought it was a hitch hiker or something, then as I got closer the cars in front of me slammed on their breaks. And that's when I saw it. A deer in the middle of the road, it's body in the left lane, its head just over the center line. It's back clearly broken - but it's head didn't know that as it was struggling to try to get up; clearly in pain and clearly struggling with no hope of repair. No one that had passed had a gun to shoot it, nor had the cops gotten there yet. I wouldn't classify my self as an emotional person - but I definitely had tears in my eyes. Really sad.
Somehow I got some mallware on my computer last week. FINALLY today I go it off. It was the most persistent damn thing I've ever encountered. Note to self: don't be stupid and actually read prompts.
For some reason I started reading about corsets on Wikipedia (who knows how I got there...) Women really did some fucked up things for fashion. Many would argue that we still do (can anyone say six inch stilettos?) It's amazing what we think of as beautiful. Skinny women used to be abhored because they were poor and didn't have enough to eat. Now fat women are thought of as ugly because just about everyone has access to food.
Women in the sixties didn't want to wear glasses because they thought it made them ugly. They are almost a fashion statement now. Espeically in the nerd culture. Yes, there is definiately a nerd culture. It's the people that read digg, xkcd, dinosaur comic, penny-arcade, and maybe even fark. It's the people that actually get the inside jokes on the webcomics, play video games, think of their computer as a recreational tool, and don't do what the "popular" people do. The interesting thing is that I think this subculture is almost bigger than the "normal" american culture. But then again, maybe I'm just so ingrained in it that I can't see the forest through the trees.
I'm driving home tomorrow. If anyone is in Toledo over break give me a call! Let's go do something!
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