Up All Night

[mistersleepless]

Think about something tonight. Go out under the stars, and think about this

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[mindslide]

It's a really nice thought. Maybe I'll force myself to believe it, someday. I guess it all just depends..

[madhyena]

I live in toronto, the sprawl extends for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles, past the curve, there is no stars in general, but i'll contemplate it anyways.

Seems more suiting to contemplate the things we will never see in an environment where you can't see it's neighbors.

[denshi]

You think Toronto has sprawl? Try any city in the USA.

[madhyena]

sprawl is sprawl, a comparison doesn't make it any less of one *shrugs*

[grosely_clerx]

Just went out and had a look. I'd worried about your sustained absence after a week or two, but my patience is rewarded. How long would it take us to find out if the sun went out? 17 minutes, something like that? Either way, it gives us puny humans a much clearer sense of proportion when we're silently cursing at the other rush hour hamsters.

[mistersleepless]

Sorry about the absence. Been working for a living.

It'd take us a hair over eight minutes to notice the sun had gone out. Enough time for a cigarette.

[nerd_king]

I think "the end of all there is" would make me dish out the 'Gars instead W. No need to be cheap - it's your last chance to laugh in cancer's face.

[fr0w]

(nice icon)

[nerd_king]

>>And you know what? It doesn't matter what went wrong in your life today. Because up there, in the dark, somewhere past the limits of your vision --

-- you got it right.<<

You die and the creator says, "did you know, that on the other 1000000 Earths, you remembered you left your lighter in the pub on 19TH March 2001 - went back, met the girl of your dreams, whose dad happened to be head of DC comics?"

While in your world you gave up your creative dreams and became a janitor, in the other worlds you got married, got a job for her dad and changed the industry?"

That would be a brain-fuck.

Anyway, I'm contented by the fact that this other me wouldn't be as good looking. Who could be?

[grosely_clerx]

Sweet icon. www.theonion.com posted a news story a year or so ago entitled, "Alternate universe James Hetfield latest employee of the month at Taco Bell."

[nerd_king]

I often thought it would be interesting if you were amoral, omnipotent (but not omnicient) to go back in time and take away the thing that has made celebrities celebrities, and see if they would ever be famous otherwise.

Go back and snap David beckham's ankle as a youngster - hey presto he's a SAS hero in the present.

Do the same to Michael Jackson and in the present he's a macho gangsta rapper. Or maybe not...

[inspectorxero]

i don't place celebrities on a pedastal...and i don't think that this applies to all such peoples..but...it seems to take a certain character and charisma to be sucessful.

[hypothemic]

inspiring sentiments... at least one hypothemic got laid tonight... ah, but infinity is a double-edged sword... there are many bush doppelgangers out there :(

perhaps fractal permutations will carry his evolution forward, and he will become the pacifist spacemonkey i know he has within him..

off topic: gridblogging; originated at that link. a nice idea set in motion of synchronous, decentralised web blogs/essays... today's topic: "brand".

[mistersleepless]

Gridblogging? Hm. I'll check it out tomorrow, thank you...

"self-branding". heh.

[hypothemic]

"there are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. where do i stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?" - from cosmopolis - don delillo