Almost done with the formatting!

Well, the setup is almost done. I've finally got the feed working. It's not RSS like I wanted, but Firefox can read Atom feeds too, so that's what I've got working. So, for anyone that uses Firefox as their browser, just click on the little icon in the botton right corner that looks like this: and subscribe to the feed. Then, instead of having to check into the site all the time, you just have to go to the bookmark and it'll tell you if I've updated lately.

If you don't have Firefox, get it. It's WAY better than Intenet Explorer. Follow this link to download and install it.

I've added a stats tracker too. It's just a picture and link at the bottom of the links for now, but once I have a few visits on it, I'll switch it over to a proper counter so you can see how popular my blog is getting. If it ever gets really popular, I'll even open it up so that you guys can see where people are visiting from etc.

Some tasteless humor

Five black men in purple dinner jackets and bow ties were found floating today under a pier in New Orleans. DNA tests later identified them as members of the singing group The Drifters. Rumor has it they were under the boardwalk, down by the sea.

What a toque!

I saw the most either frightening or amusing toque today. It said "WILL WORK FOR SNOGS". Like I said, pretty funny. At least it would have been if the girl wearing it didn't look like she lived in a box. She looked like she needed the work, but for way better pay than snogs. Then again, for all I know, she could have just been going through a rebellion phase. Her mom - and it WAS her mom, she called her "mom" and did what she asked - was pretty well dressed. Not ostentatiously so, like they have more money then they know what to do with, but well enough to tell people they're not hurting for cash.

I still think it's a cool hat...

Am I callous and insensitive?

I just finished replying in a couple of topics on the PACE Board. One was about natural selection and population controls in the wild and the other was about the treatment of the remains of people long dead. What I realized was that I'm either excessively practical, totally insensitive and callous, or just really good at taking a step back from my emotions. In the post about natural selection, I made the point that if a coyote in the city were to eat a human baby it would be a good thing for two reasons. One, that it would be one less maladjusted adult to live, cause problems in society, and reproduce beacuse its parents weren't attentive enough. Two because even though we are at the "top" of the food chain, we can't forget that sometimes we slip a little. In the other, I was arguing that there really isn't any reason to worry about a corpse's feelings, since the soul is long gone or that we can make it ok after the fact.

I really think/hope that it's the last option. Really. What good could come from being practical to that point? I'm actually thinking that could even be dangerously psychotic/psychopathic. Problem is, I really do believe that. I'd feel bad for the parents and the rest of the kid's family, but still, from an absolutely objective point of view, it IS in the greater good.

Well, if I'd feel bad for the parents, I guess I'm not that insensitive. Callous? No. I can't conciously, deliberately hurt someone unless I know it's going to save them more pain later on.

Good.

That just leaves the ability to disassociate myself with the situation. I guess I'll have to keep an eye on that. It could cause problems later on if I start taking it too far. At this stage/level, I'm thinking that's a really good thing. That's probably why I can handle stress so well. It could also come in useful in trying to make all sorts of difficult decisions, although there I'll have to be careful not to ignore the human factors in those. Then again, one thing I learned while I was selling the calendars for S.T.A.R.S. Ambulance is that the really rich people and the really successful in business all seem to have a total disregard for peoples' feelings. That's a topic for another time though...

Bye!
Ben

At least I feel a little better about myself now.

@#$% computers!

I've just been trying to get this syndicated via RSS for the last 2 hours. Blogsopt.com won't do it automatically unless I pay for the upgraded version, and it's just not worth that much to me. However, they say to use Feedburner.com to do it. Problem is, Feedburner doesn't recognize the Blogspot feed as valid. OH well, Guess you'll just have to bookmark the site for now...

AH! Freedom!

Since I got this blog online, I’ve been thinking about posting online just in general. Be it on a forum, on a blog, in a chat room, whatever. I really am surprised at what you can write or say online that you couldn’t or wouldn’t in person. Just the post topics I’ve been thinking about aren’t things that would come up in person. Some are too embarrassing, some are going to be offensive, some are just too inane.

I think it’s the near-anonymity. I know pretty much all of you know who I am. Without you right here in from of me though, I feel like I can say anything. It really is an interesting feeling.

More on this later…

Well, here I am...

Well, I finally got around to doing it. My very own Blog. I finally have somewhere to post all my random, disjointed, irelevant thoughts...

Enjoy!