009: I can't believe 007 went by and I didn't make a BOND remark... I'm slipping...

Hopefully the pointless title to this entry will give everyone a hint that I'm not intending to talk about anything in particular here. I just have the computer on and I feel like typing for a bit...

Hope you don't mind...

(In other words: If you are looking for a profound reading experience with political and philosophical depth and life changing propositions or information... then you've already stopped reading and moved on... Good for you. Life is too short to waste on trivialities and errata...)

(OR IS IT???)

Let's look at it this way: Life rolls along doing it's progressing-towards-the-destruction-of-the-universe thing whether I'm reading deep, philosophical tracts by Freddy Nietzsche, drinking a lovely cocktail of rum and no-doze, picking my nose, or watching old FRIENDS reruns (although I wouldn't recommend that last one...) You and I, the two of us, are riding the hot rails towards the end of time. Eventually (or sooner, if the big W has his way) humans will cease to be a viable species on this planet and all the giant bugs that control access to the University Libraries of the future world will be hard pressed to find even a footnote about any of us, accept for the pictures of the fossilized remains of a few drunk teenagers who crash their car into the La Brea Tar Pits... Good deeds, bad deeds, deeply held beliefs, pointless piddling away of precious moments, all of these things, which we worry about so much, will be of equal value to the future generations of cockroach anthropologists digging around in the ruins of old malls looking for evidence of religious beliefs and economic status (if those bugs find humans an interesting enough topic to bother having scientists around whose job is studying our artifacts and remains...)

And this scenario only counts until the sun goes out and sucks the entire solar system into the cosmic equivalent of a leaky garbage disposal. (Thanks, Dr. Hawking, for blowing everybody's plans to hop into a black hole and enter another dimension... How in the hell are we supposed to get to another dimension now???)

What was the point of all this typing again??? OH, that's right... I didn't have a point... Well, there! Mission accomplished...