Friday, May 06, 2005


it's not a habit...
posted @ 10:20 by ryan in [ A journey into the mind... ]

do your fingers just type something the second you get on a computer and start surfing the web?

user names and passwords and common openings and closings seem to just instantly appear when necessary because the motions have been done so often that they are automatic...

Please let me know if there are any questions, comments, or concerns.

Thanks!
Ryan


I almost don't think about who's who in movies anymore because then second it takes me longer that 5 seconds to figure out what movie a person has been in or who else starred in or the name of a movie I'm automatically in google...

actor's name site:imdb.com


if I meet someone for the first time I automatically google them just because, and maybe I'll get lucky and find their blog or what school they went to and then I'll be able to find something of interest from the depths of my knowledge base that might coincide with whatever information I have learned... all this in hopes to avoid awkward silences or lapses into trivial small talk...

essentially, all first meetings are interviews. you ask their name, what they do, where they are from, do they know this person, what sports, until you both stumble across a subject in which you both seem to be more than just semi-interested...

politics, comics, movies, gossip, blah blah blah...

you gotta start somewhere.

human interaction and all that. no man is an island... nope, I think most people are like urban sprawl. [I'll let you figure out that similie, since I'm not sure what I mean by it]

but, i digress...

... ... ....

so sometimes, I find that I am going to the internet for no reason.

I mean, I'll be thnking about something, then I will open up a browser and just stare at a blank page.

"What the hell am I doing here?"

kind of like walking around, er.. more like wandering around, and ending up somewhere you've never been and never really wanted to go.

it's cool...

but kind of pointless and, many times, fruitless...

... ... ...

habits are habits because you no longer realize that you are doing it. If you notice, maybe you notice for a second, then that part of you that doesn't give a [say "ship" while holding your tongue] tells the other part to STFU...

or not, but I imagine it that way...

seeing the fruits of labor or the completion of truly original [or cleverly derived] thoughts are exhilarating

I feel alive...

during those rare moments - which I guess aren't so rare for those of us that are more brilliant, but none the less - few and far between for me.

... ... ...

If you don't have it, you're on the other side...

now I'm just reaching.

arrgghhh...

I'm at one of those points where I am bouncing back and forth between thinking I am a genius to thinking I am an idiot...

you know.

unless you've never had the feeling that you might really be a genius...

and if you haven't, I feel sorry for you, because then you will never know how "we" feel once in a while...

or something.