I believe the most important division in the world is this.
People fall into two categories.
the first, will examine data and having done so, will formulate a viewpoint.
The second, adopts a viewpoint (usually from a moral background) and looks for data to back it up.
The first group are infinitely rarer, but you can reason with them
The second are more common, there... Read More
Your think Portland is one of the most beautiful cities on earth? Really?
Why?
I've lived here nearly all my life with the exception of Taiwan as a teenager and I am always interested to hear what outsiders see in Portland. I'm blinded by it's familiarity and my sentimental fondness for it. I live across the Columbia river on the WA side but I'm still a hardcore Portlander at heart.
I havent ignored anyone.. And I havent gotten any messages for ages. As a matter of fact, I hardly even log in on IM anymore. My friends usually have no problems keeping in touch, and those who ARE my friends don't bitch and rag at me about stupid preconcieved notions.
If you want me to ignore you, then by all means, keep leaving messages like that in my journal.
it's pissing me off too.
Still you have other means of contacting me.
I'm on pretty reliably from midnight till two AM EST (that's 5 AM to 7 AM GMT)
and one pm till four pm EST (6pm-9pm GMT)
I very much doubt that anyone actually reads these but i'm gonna talk anyhow. I'm feeling pretty good about the world right now. The sun is bright. I can stand on both feet (albeit with the assistance of large doses of painkiller)s and i'm actually intellectually engaged for the first time in a few weeks
Trilobyte turns out to actually be quite an interesting kind... Read More
Right well x rays and surgery and huge amounts of painkillers aside, I'm in some serious fucking pain and I can't sleep, cant go to work and actually can't go out much. I need to find something new to do, the chatroom is getting crazy dull.