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Posts Tagged ‘ego’

des·ti·tute

Sunday, December 25th, 2011

des·ti·tute /ˈdestiˌt(y)o͞ot/ – Without the basic necessities of life. Answers Terminal celebration. Only a few months. In the desert. Sunburn. Only myself. Questions What if you had to? How long have you ever been? Where did you end up? Why didn’t you stay? Who is to blame?

Stories

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

Some common thread bindsEveryone togetherBut it is too tight Have many storiesNo worries if I don’t writeIt’s all just peachy

Yearly Performance Review

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

If you had a manager that talked to you the way you talked to you, you’d quit. If you had a boss that wasted as much as your time as you do, they’d fire her. If an organization developed its employees as poorly as you are developing yourself, it would soon go under. … There [...]

The best-laid plans schemes

Saturday, August 7th, 2010

Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie,O, what panic’s in thy breastie!Thou need na start awa sae hasty,Wi’ bickering brattle!I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee,Wi’ murd’ring pattle! I’m truly sorry Man’s dominionHas broken Nature’s social union,An’ justifies that ill opinion,Which makes thee startle,At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,An’ fellow-mortal! I doubt na, whyles, but [...]

On the Justification of Nihilism

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Estimates of “the total number of people who have ever lived” published in the 2000s range approximately from 100 to 115 billion. An estimate of the total number of people who have ever lived was prepared by Carl Haub of the Population Reference Bureau in 1995 and subsequently updated in 2002; the updated figure was [...]

Admissions of Fallibility

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Cognition is futile but I don’t believe in nihilism. Understanding is a restriction of experience and it is by a reflexive framework of understanding that the stenosis of thought we foolishly call reality precludes us from the freedom of plenipotentiary chaos. Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t – without a locus in [...]

Insomnia #1873

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Now with more somnambulism! Ideas rattling around in my skull… Hypothesis: Intestinal flora imbalances cultured with refined foods are a basis for systemic failure in the human body (there is already plenty of flim-flam out on the ‘net to this effect) Project: Intricate wood-burning project involving ouroboros design, ceramic inlay, complicated system of gears which [...]

Wetware Trouble Tickets [2010.01.10]

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

*** [AR-0] Preempt Retention *** Confidential *** Internal Use Only *** Do not reproduce, disclose, or acknowledge upon disclosure Document retention policy preempted Document control failure violates Title 3 §42 Uniform Secrecy Provisions. Note: This document supersedes all concurrently released versions of the same title. Destroy in accordance with DCP-0. [Short form for append to [...]

Prolonged Death Mimesis [redux]

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

In a candle-lighted chapel, each climbs into one of the austere wooden caskets laid side by side on the floor. Lying face up, their arms crossed over their chests, they close their eyes. And there they rest, for 10 excruciating minutes. “It’s a way to let go of certain things,” says Jung, a former insurance [...]

Why black?

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

Well, there’s things that never will be right I know,And things need changin’ everywhere you go,But ’til we start to make a move to make a few things right,You’ll never see me wear a suit of white. Ah, I’d love to wear a rainbow every day,And tell the world that everything’s OK,But I’ll try to [...]