I'm posting this through E-MAIL!
That's right, E-MAIL!
Now that I've got Ubuntu running on my laptop, I can use Evolution to manage my e-mail again, and that makes it pure awesome. I see no reason to continue using the Internet any other way. All I need now is a means of accessing Wikipedia through email... and you know, it's not that far-fetched of an idea. All you'd need is a little daemon running on e-mail requests to fetch the page content and serve it back to you. I might write one of those soon. Wouldn't that be amazing?
School has become intense. Even my weekends are dedicated to doing work, sometimes really tedious work. I'm not sure I'm going to pass all of my classes because so much of the grades depend on so much of the tedious work that's hard to get done correctly and on time.
It feels good to write again. I've been writing in private a lot to relieve some of the stress. Reducing my social contact to almost nothing has its cost. I'm also not able to read as much as I'd like to, although every time I pick up another Orson Scott Card book in the Ender's Game series I end up just reading all night instead of sleeping and reaping the consequences throughout the next day. He's dangerous, I tell you.
Tonight I also finally got a chance to relax and play some video games. I'm completely burned out; this chance to completely immerse myself in a military simulation was so reviving, I might as well have been sleeping. After all this abstract traditional mathematics and concrete applied engineering, it's a relief to employ my mental resources designing combat strategy on the fly as a squad leader and devoting more energy to reflex action (not to mention I get to yell at my subordinates when they're insubordinate).
Playing violent games also gets the desire for violence out of my system. Sometimes when I get frustrated, I instinctively aim to remove the source of the problem, which so often is only through the removal of persons who exist as obstacles. Rational thought continually prevents me from ever even planning anything so ridiculous, but the instinct is still there. When I'm immersed in a game, though, the problems seem more immediate, more dangerous, more real, and the problems are life-threatening. Solving these by eliminating virtual foreigners completely removes the need to do the same in real life to real people. Usually a fix once in a week works fine.
Playing violent games makes me less violent. Strange.
I have a book you should all read that you've probably never heard of. Read "The Baron in the Trees", by Italo Calvino (translated from Italian by good old Archibald--what a name). I was quite impressed.
Now I'm unsure; do I end this freewrite e-mail like I end e-mails with my signature, or do I end it like I end freewrites?
I suppose it's not really an e-mail; it's been abstracted to a medium.
Peace out.
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