I haven't updated this in a long time.

I've been working on a separate site, one about simplicity, and different ideas about how to simplify life. Maybe I'll post a link to it at some point.

I just saw someone laughing/smiling at someone outside of the cafe where I am sitting. It was nice to think that someone could be randomly happy at something on the street.

I saw this earlier in the year. It is an amazing video. It documents the evolution of the earth in 60 seconds.

Earth in 60 Seconds

There is an excellent op-ed in the New York Times regarding the public options. They make extended reference to FDR and the New Deal as evidence of how a public option shapes the private sphere.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/opinion/01Tue4.html

Whether or not the goal is to do away with the private marketplace for health insurance, creating a public option will result in better pricing and care for those in the private market. Much like the union wage-rate affects non-union workers by leading to a global wage increase, reduced healthcare costs in a public option would inevitably lead to reduced costs in the private sphere.

Random ridiculous thought:

If a nihilist believes in nothing, what does an a-nihilist believe in?

Suggested answers thus far:
1. The absence of nothing
2. Everything

River deltas of light lead to an ocean of darkness.

Not sure...

The last few days have felt like college.  I've been waking up late, lounging around, and otherwise doing whatever I felt like.  I guess it is odd, I spend years wanting to be out of college, and then miss the freedom that it allowed.  I keep thinking about taking classes.  But, what would I take classes in?  Where would I take them?  Is it class, or just the freedom to do whatever I felt like it.

What should I learn next? 

Things always seem to go in circles.

The summer has come...

Or something like that.  The heat has been somewhat unbearable.  It makes me want my old apartment, the tiny one with air conditioning.  At least I could sleep easily there.

Things of interest:
1. Rollerblading.
This is fucking awesome. It has been a very long time since I last skated.  I guess I remember "how" to do it.

2. Pools
Swimming in heat is awesome... I guess that is what happens when you live in a city.  The conveniences of life are there for you when you need them, except for taxes you have no obligation to maintain them.  Who wants to clean a pool every day, or check the chemicals in it, when you won't be using it every day.  The same goes for libraries, parks, etc.

3. Team Sports 
There is really something about team sports that I enjoy.  That is all.

4.  Movies and TV DVDs
I've been watching a lot of movies lately.  Two that I watched tonight were great.  Valkyrie and Pushing Tin.  I've also been watching South Park and the X-Files lately.  I've seen most of the X-files, but I've never really seen South Park.  I'm on Season 4 right now (just finished Season 3 the other night).  This show is great.  I can't believe what I missed all of these years.

I guess that is all for now.

Today is a somewhat gorgeous day out, even if it is threatening to rain.  I thought to myself, why not take a walk.  So, what was seen on this walk:

1. Bunny
2. Baseball game
3. Yinzers doing yinzer things
4. A handwritten letter on the ground from Chrystina to Gramma  (possibly the highlight)

Either way, it made me think about something I thought not that long ago.  It is the little things each day that make it all memorable.  I have a tendency to forgot that.  Sometimes I get to thinking that every day needs to be some fantastically amazing experience for every waking moment.  That just isn't the case.  Now, there are days that are sort of like that, but, on a daily basis, it just doesn't, and can't happen.

So, it is the little things, like bunnies and a discarded letter, that make the days memorable.