The Meaning of Life
29/05/2004
Beef and Broccoli!
In a couple hour’s I’ll be headed to LX’s for lunch. She’s cooking beef and broccoli and I’ll be harassing her cats. Looking forward to lunch + entertainment. Now if only I didn’t have to wait till weekends to enjoy these pleasures…
Or The Life of Brian, whichever comes first
Bliss is when I read Neil Gaiman’s blog, since the collective wisdom of thousands and a really good filter always turns up gems like Pythonline. And this is a really good song Eric Idle did, although if you find my foos language appalling, you probably don’t want to download that song.
Entertainment tonight
Ok, I know what I’ll sound like for saying this, but the different ways Friendster is amusing me is just too worth it. It’s so popular, that Y! Life Engine ads have been running there (taking up the exclusive real estate that the Friendster house ads once took).
Friendster is like a book, and a funny one at that. It’s fun because you can choose where you want to go. For someplace completely random – just make up a name and search. For something closer to home, snoop on friends’ of friends. With testimonials, profiles, photos, more testimonials, it’s like mini-JC all over again. Friendster is like The Teenage Textbook of the 21st century.
Fascinating and somewhat amusing
There are so many things you could say in that space. You could be funny, honest, grammatically incorrect, partially selective, discerning, poetic, sporadic, spontaneous, made-up, unmade-up, yourself, your cat, in white wife-beaters, showing off your abs, showing off your tattoos, showing off your teddy (bear) – you could be anything! You can be everything you ever wanted, and nothing really in particular.
And add to that the confluence of your past, your present, your relatives, your colleagues, your schoolfriends, your associates, people who want to be your past, your present, future, relatives, colleagues and more! It’s like a soap opera waiting to happen.
You can be who you want to be, simply because of the medium. If that isn’t confidence in a pill, I don’t know what is.
I love the internet, and this is why countless others love it too.
