daily smattering (my blog copout)

How 'The Incredibles' is fascist in its thinking. Roommate's mother pointed this out to me -- and I can't really say I'm in disagreement.

"The only solace in life is knowing that you're doing the best that you can in these circumstances that you yourself have sculpted. Devdoot, are you doing the best you can?"

Woke up to that thought. Went to the gym, then to lab. And when the enema of al-anon motivation gave way to laziness, did some blog hunting.

So... bad blogs, fourth in a series:

"It's really cool that Fermilab tapes all their colloquium talks. I wish other universities would do the same. Sure, there are books and papers out there, but nothing beats the experience of listening to another human being tell you something!" --qmengineer

"I think this feeling started Thanksgiving morning. For some reason, this year, the Macy's parade pissed me off a lot more than usual. Are we so past feeling love for our fellow man that we have to spend ooodles and ooodles of cash putting on a spectacle that means absolutely nothing, except to small children? I mean, what if we spent JUST THAT money on the homeless or education?" --profgoose

"Kierkegaard. I will never be the boy who reads Kierkegaard. I will never even be able to correctly pronounce Kierkegaard. This causes me much despair. I want to be him -- I want that "literary arsenal" -- but I can barely scrape past pop literature and books required for classes. This was the sadness that resulted from a long walk I took last night. Why bother even learning that there is a Kierkegaard if it only haunts you for decades until it's too late to apply philosophies to life anyhow?" -- my older blog, 2002