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Healthy brains do not function in this way, I am sure. I was thinking about my recent time on the internet, which has led to many random tangents (what is it with people who seem to think that "led", the past tense of "lead", is the same as the noun "lead", which is a heavy metal. Heavy metal is pretty awesome. I should get into it some more. I was at a Cradle of Filth gig recently. But the awesomeness there mainly stemmed from playing the Hitch Hiker's Guide at a high volume with the windows down and pretending we were educated gangstas. I despise those people who modify their cars to look like something it's not. I should flesh out my plan to reverse it by getting a terrible-looking car and upgrading it so that it can outrun a porsche. Et cetera), like that. I didn't plan that. It just came out.
So I was wondering why my internet history is so random. I remember flicking through a site that provided a refutation of many of the known arguments that creationists have against evolution. It's not like I really know which one is telling the truth in many cases. I haven't done the right research. All their references could melt away in the morning like pixie gold and I'd be none the wiser. It's only common sense that makes me side with science, and that gives me just as unshakeable a conviction as a creationist that firmly believes God did it. It's useless for me to look at this. Same with randomly coming across wikipedia entries about 24-hour analog watches and then seeing if they're for sale on Amazon. A futile task, as they said they were collector's items, and only of use to those whose job involves needing to know the exact, unambiguous time of day at a glance.
I was somehow going to link this to how I got to pondering the word ambidextrous, and thinking of the simplicity of it, how unambiguous it is. Unfortunately I was so caught up in stream-of-consciousness stuff that I lost the map of my last stream. Two words put together meaning skilled with both hands. A classic compound word. You can trace both of them back to their origins easily, and it implies the possibility of an opposite. At this point I thought up ambi-sinister and burst out laughing, so that's the end of that.
I think I should go back to instant coffee. I obviously can't handle the pure stuff.
So I was wondering why my internet history is so random. I remember flicking through a site that provided a refutation of many of the known arguments that creationists have against evolution. It's not like I really know which one is telling the truth in many cases. I haven't done the right research. All their references could melt away in the morning like pixie gold and I'd be none the wiser. It's only common sense that makes me side with science, and that gives me just as unshakeable a conviction as a creationist that firmly believes God did it. It's useless for me to look at this. Same with randomly coming across wikipedia entries about 24-hour analog watches and then seeing if they're for sale on Amazon. A futile task, as they said they were collector's items, and only of use to those whose job involves needing to know the exact, unambiguous time of day at a glance.
I was somehow going to link this to how I got to pondering the word ambidextrous, and thinking of the simplicity of it, how unambiguous it is. Unfortunately I was so caught up in stream-of-consciousness stuff that I lost the map of my last stream. Two words put together meaning skilled with both hands. A classic compound word. You can trace both of them back to their origins easily, and it implies the possibility of an opposite. At this point I thought up ambi-sinister and burst out laughing, so that's the end of that.
I think I should go back to instant coffee. I obviously can't handle the pure stuff.