"The frustrating thing about writing down your thoughts in a journal is that there is a physical record of your shortcomings. The same place you go to for comfort to pour out your heart is the same place you record your embarrassingly filthy sexual fantasies."

... some rant about mediocrity being praised ...

"...people constantly looking for anything to induce temporary brain damage to escape the harshness of genuine emotion..."

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"That's why I'm proposing a mandatory recording of a person's thoughts. Then there will be a weekly review of the thoughts."

Incredible pictures of bugs... UP CLOSE!

"November 2nd: I woke up from a bad dream where I was fighting a cat that kept attacking my head. I'm pretty sure the cat was black. My legs felt sweaty when I woke up. It was about 3 or 4 when I woke up from it."

"November 6th: I was in a field, sort of a playground type area and there were a lot of bees. A dark figure in a beekeeper uniform was spraying that stuff at me so the bees would go away. There was also a short dream before that where I cut my own hair but accidentally cut a big part out and it looked really bad."

Jokes Made by Robots, for Robots.

The Missing Secrets of Nikola Tesla (video). Super rad. Also sorta long.

The past few weeks I've found myself doing things very out of character. Like avoiding work I know I have to do in order to do something really pointless. I usually never do this, and the past couple weeks I've caught myself doing it constantly. I've just felt odd and sort of ill.

Well, last night around 8 o'clock, as I was about to get out of my last class, I started feeling really strange. I'm not sure how to describe it. It was sort of like being on drugs, but at the same time it felt as if I were being altered. As I was walking towards my car I found myself sort of stumbling every few steps and my back felt like it was being pressed on.

Haha, so that was pretty weird. My thought process was still normal, but I was having to compensate for these physical hiccups. I drove home, cautiously, and crawled into bed, but I wasn't able to sleep. My body temperature was rapidly switching between really hot and really cold.

Then it got weird. There was a moment where I started thinking about death, and if I died what I would have wanted people to have known. Not specific individuals, but more of a summation of what I thought was important in life. Sort of advice.

My first instinct was to lay still and not move, but I forced myself to get some paper and a pen and wrote out the thoughts I was having. Something about this act helped calm me down. I think it also forced me to reevaluate the things I think are important to being happy.

Anyway, the rest of the night I barely slept and just sort of laid in my bed feeling this way. I tried to diagnose what was wrong with me and I was almost sure it was a fever, but when I woke up the next morning I felt relatively normal. It also felt like I shed whatever was making me feel like someone else. I guess that sounds kind of dramatic, but I dunno, believe it or don't.

I still have a bit of a headache and I'm coughing a little, so I don't know what is wrong.

But yah, that was fun. Also, De La Soul is awesome.

I noticed this handy feature today. If Gmail robots detect a UPS tracking number in the body of the email it give you a direct link to the tracking page. Killer or what!?

A shirt I drew for Busted Tees is now being sold at Urban Outfitters.

Oh, and I didn't come up with the joke, they just told me what to draw. Still rad.

A few things that would be nice to have:

-Digital cameras to have wifi built in and wirelessly transmit photos to a computer, or to a service like flickr

-A bag with more pockets to seperate things

-A universal identification / payment card so I wouldn't need a school ID, drivers license, credit cards, etc.

-A phone built into my shoe, cus I bet chicks would dig that

-Scratch proof surfaces for electronic devices

-Pants that somehow attach to my shoes so they wouldn't hike up when I'm sitting down and reveal my socks

-Wireless earbud headphones, or audio brain implant

-The universal card should also open all my doors annnnd start my car, something to eliminate keys

-Something to reduce the number of cables necessary for electronic stuff

-In the shoe that doesn't have a phone in it, there should be a box cutter knife, cus now that I don't have keys i'll need something like that

-Jetpack

While cleaning up my room I found the following awesome things:

1. The quick release part of a tripod, which I thought I had lost.

2. Two sweaters that I thought were ugly before, but now seem alright.

3. A copy of SimIsle. I remember being overwhelmed by the game in 1995, when I was 10 years old. So it'll be neat to see if I can get it running and/or how complicated it is now that I'm older.

Yay for new perspectives on old things!

The above is a wallpaper called 'Light' designed by Corrine Ulmann and Isamu Kandu. It's designed to look like light that's coming in a window, but it's printed on the wallpaper. I couldn't find any pictures of it on a whole room to see what it would look like, but it seems like a great idea.

I saw Stranger Than Fiction last night with my brother. I liked it a lot, but I'm not sure how it would hold up on multiple viewings. However, there was some awesome graphic design work on the opening sequence. I'm not sure how to describe it any further, but it's super cool. If you're into that sort of thing at all, check it out. And if you're not, maybe check it out anyway.

The trailer is a little misleading, possibly on purpose, in suggesting the movie is a comedy. It has some really funny moments, but it's actually pretty serious. That really caught me off gaurd, so heads up.

Also, Maggie Gyllenhaal is super cute.

This article on Concentrated Solar Power makes me want to learn more about, well... solar power.