My Thanksgiving

My thanksgiving was alright. I'm not really one for turkey and mashed potatoes and stuffing, but I really liked what I had the next day: ramen. Not your usual instant ramen, but the real deal, straight from a ramen-ya. (To be honest, the ramen itself wasn't that great, but everything else I had there was great.) I spent the rest of my time with friends, playing Warhammer 40k and having a LAN party, and I wrote an essay over the week.

Facebook the New 911 (NSFW)

Facebook the New 911 (The article itself is not NSFW, but the rest of the site is. You have been warned.)

Honestly, what has the world come to? At least, that's what I would be asking, but they're kids. They probably set their status to "lol were trapped in a storm drain lol."

Multitasking

I found this quote to be hilarious in this article.

Those who extol the virtues (or at least proclaim the
necessity) of multitasking behavior seem typically to constitute three non-technical
and non-professional communities: career professionals already saddled with overwhelming job-related expectations; young students who seem intent on justifying
their “attention deficit” practices; and, interestingly enough, academic
administrators and humanities educators.

I gave a big, hearty LOL when I read this.

Basically, this article was full of stuff that I already knew. Mainly that everyone is bad at multitasking. Yet, people want RESULTS RESULTS RESULTS, and still think that multitasking is better. I knew that multitasking is hard on the brain. Yet, I still do it when I play World of Warcraft and watch anime at the same time. Usually, I alt-tab between casts, watch a few seconds, then cast another spell. What's really nice about this is that I watch subtitled anime (that dubbed crap is horrible,) so all I have to do is read the subtitles, and I can alt-tab back into WoW while the characters are still talking and cast a spell. It's really efficient. Seriously. I'd call it the most efficient use of multitasking, since WoW is a pretty brainless activity anyway.

Jazz Gallery

Jazz and democracy are two completely different things. One is a form of art, the other is a form of government. Art and government never work together. They would, except for the fact that art is a whiny emo kid that will cut himself over the smallest thing that government asks of it. I mean, seriously. Ever wondered why good artists kill themselves? They're not happy with the exact state of things.

Enough about my crap. The exhibit. Yeah. It wasn't great. It was a bunch of paper stapled to walls. With one good quote that I liked.

The blues gets all inside of you because it's filled with reality about life and death and love and pain and stupidity and grace. It's about what is and what is has angels and demons sitting right at the same table... The blues says that we are not always good. Or bad. We just are... Sad or funny, factual or fantasized, raunchy, majestic, or even maudlin, the blues reassures us with the unpredictability of life itself.

-I forgot to write who said this.

I know that I botched it somewhere too. I think it was right around the life and death stuff. But this connected with me because I personally know this to be true. If you replace "jazz" with "anime." Except, anime is more of a current generation thing. And we all know that the current generation is the best one.

Oh, and the whole Tupac Shakur thing. Yeah, if I were a grammar nazi (OH WAIT I AM ROFL), that would have a massive F on it. I found it interesting that Tupac would be next to whoever that was. Then I realized that it was probably a cheap way to get us interested in this crap.