Got you by the balls and banning old video games
Aah, soccer. You're a sport, and I don't like sports and I don't understand them. I don't understand the emotion they evoke in people; it seems so primitive. I'm not into thinking one country is better than another. Yet when I was watching Stateline I found myself kind of proud of my Croatian heritage. I mean, although Australia beat Croatia, half the Aussie team has Croatian heritage, so it's kind of a win/win situation.
Oh man, why did nobody tell me about the so-called worst law ever? Japan wanted to ban the sale of any electrical good made prior to 2001, including musical instruments and OLD VIDEO GAMES! Of course the otaku were pissed. Yes, I now know what japanese nerds are called. Technically a gaming nerd is a gēmu otaku . The year was changed to 1989, meaning any pre-89 video games should be much cheaper to buy on ebay. Unfortunately I never really got in to old Japanese games; I'm waiting til I retire. Props to the March issue of Time I read today. Also props to my local library for lending me magazines, graphic novels and dvds. Wow, libraries are awesome! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd
Technology got me thinking. In the opinion of some author dude in Time we are living in the most exciting time ever, and I'd have to agree with this. Most people talk about how horrible the world we live in is, but I think it's a shitload better than it has been in any time in history. For thousands of years it was a struggle for people to stay alive, and no one gave a fuck about helping the less fortunate out. Now we have the luxury of evolving our minds instead. Not all evolution is good, but it's more enjoyable and stimulating than hunting and gathering. [By the way, it is eating red meat that allowed our brains to grow bigger and think harder, becoming concerned with ethics, leading some of these thinkers to become vegetarians. Irony??] One only needs to look at livejournal or wikipedia to see that many people are interested not only in being heard, but making the world a better place, or at least not making it a worse place. The average people far, far outweigh the bad people, so I wish everyone would stop giving the bad guys attention; it only encourages them (remind you of anyone Mum?) We live in a time where people are going to be living in SPACE. How freaking cool is that?! We live in a time when those other than the wealthy can create art which they can show the rest of the world! Point in case: www.threadless.com. We live in a time when the majority of people care about the less fortunate, even if it doesn't seem that way. We live in a time where individuals feel helpless, but it's not going to be that way until the end of time.
I took my first phone photo of my nephew Joshua (6 months old). And now lj won't let me link to it. Liv had some other photos of him and his 8 month old "friend" Indiana in which it looked like she was sucking him off! He has got to be one of the happiest babies ever. Would not stop laughing.
Apparently Mum and Dad went to see Johnny Cash when he came to town. How cute is that? I didn't even know he came to sAdelaide.