Today’s random musing has been brought to light by the stupidity of the US government, or more specifically their INS division.

The other day I was reading an Article that was sent to me regarding the pilots of the September 11^th terrorist attacks on the U.S. In the article we find that some idiot approved these terrorists for Student Visa’s so as they could take the technical classes needed to fly the planes. Not only that, but one of the recipients of a Visa had an outstanding warrant out for his arrest in Florida.

Now to me this is very pathetic and is a testament to the stupidity and idiocy of the bureaucracy spawned and propogated by both big business and big governments around the world (though in some cases you are starting to be unable to tell the difference between corporations and government). Not only does the right hand rarely know what the left hand is doing, half the time it isn’t even aware of what it is doing. It is stupid things like this that make you wonder why people are so shocked when events like September 11^th happen. The government isn’t all knowing or all powerful. Hell half the time it’s just going through the motions because that is ALL it has ever been trained to do.

Let this be a lesson to us all. Before everything else: THINK! QUESTION! LEARN!!! Don’t just do something because it’s easy or because it is the status quo of the time.

For those of you looking for more examples of stupid bureaucratic idiocy, I shall direct you to page seven of the INS form that one has to fill out to become a Permanent Resident in the U.S. It has some wonderfully stupid questions that make you wonder why anyone would EVER answer yes to them. Such as: Have you ever committed Genocide?, Are you a Communist?, Are you planning on committing Espionage while in the U.S.?, Have you ever declared Diplomatic Immunity to avoid prosecution while in the U.S.?, And my personal favourite… Do you plan on practicing polygamy while in the U.S.?

The scary thing is that, based on the idiocy evident in the first part of my rant, somewhere in America there is someone who answered Yes to all those questions and is now a Permanent Resident…

Today’s Mindless quiz to help you get through the day was…

The Which Matrix Character are you? But as is the norm with these quizzes, the creator seriously underestimated the demand on their bandwidth and the quiz has since been taken down.

The link is below, maybe one day it will reappear.



Which Matrix Character Are You?

And if anyone cared… I was Morpheus.

Okay… Another pointless quiz cause I’m bored.

Which Muppet Are You?

It’s a muppet quiz enjoy.

In other, non-wedded bliss related, news…

I still don’t have any remote FTP access so updating my site in any shape, form or fashion is on hold for the moment. I’ll update when I again have access. Hopefully that won’t be too long.

And to top things off, it looks like Bravenet, the service that I get my free polls and guestbook and such from, was hacked while I was away and they’ve blocked outside access to their site while they investigate the breach. Unfortunately this makes many of my pages not load properly as your browser searches for images and information that currently isn’t there. And as I have no access to my ftp, I can’t comment out the offending HTML. So you’ll all just have to suck it up and wait, just like me.

Well, I’m back from my honeymoon. I apparently survived the wedding and the subsequent trip to Maui. I had a great time and things went off without too many problems… unfortunately like all good things in the world, I remember only little snapshots here and there. I keep finding that I’m unable to remember the events of the whole day all at once. It’s like my mind will only let me view snippets of the event to protect me from the vast scope of everything that was happenning around me. I focus on one thing and everything else blurs out. It is a strange way to feel but for some reason I don’t mind. It feels right. Like each little snippet or snapshot is brought into clearer focus because of the lack of distracting background noise.

Oh well, I guess that is the nature of the beast. Maybe one day humanity will have the capability to comprehend events in a larger scope but for now we’ll all just have to deal with living in a snapshot reality.

Later…

As many of you are no doubt aware, there have been very few updates to the page as a whole recently. I’d like to take this time to apologise to the three of you that are regular readers and give a brief explanation as to the reasons why.

In the forefront of my excuses is the fact that I’m getting married in… three days *HOLY CRAP!!!!!* and I find that my time is spent thinking about what happens next rather than what part of the site needs updating.

Secondly, and perhaps the more valid reason (at least from a technical standpoint), is the fact that I am currently away from home and my ISP has inanely decided to limit FTP access to the IP’s attached to their server only. So remote updates are currently impossible and my ISP, in standard big business fashion, remains mute to my help requests on this subject.

So, until things change, you’ll only get the occasional blog post here and there to let you know I’m alive.

Anyways… I’m off to burn some CDs for the wedding and screw the record companies out of a few more pennies. Later

Okay… for those of you who were wondering (and yes I am sure there was at least one of you because I could hear the gerbil wheel inside your head squeaking), CH₃CH₂OH is the chemical formula for Ethyl Alcohol. The substance found in 90% of most alcoholic beverages. Forshame on all of you for not knowing that.

Anyways… on to other topics.

So here I am in Texas, nine days before I get married and I still have no clue as to what I’m going to say to the woman I love. My vows are seemingly impossible to write. I keep coming up against that dreaded blank wall of a writer’s block every time I try to find words that do her justice. It’s annoying me, I’ve had this block for about a month and a half now and it’s starting to get frustrating. And it’s not just with my vows, it has been pretty much anything that I’ve written (or tried to write) lately. I hope I can work my way through or around it soon…

Do you ever wonder if we’re getting dumber as we progress further down the evolutionary path?

I mean I am always in awe about the amount of things that I know nothing about, and yet feel that I should be aware of them, at least in passing. Even with my awe looming in front of me, I still hunger and thirst to learn. I get scared though when I think that I may not have the capacity to learn all I want too. That somewhere down the line due to culture, genetic drift, random genome mutation, and whatnot the limits of my mind were set and once I reach that point, *Poof* that’s it. Either I start to intentionally forget things to make room, or just don’t learn anymore.

It’s an interesting and sobering thought. We’re told that we generally only use 10% of our brains. I wonder how long it will be before we can say that we use 11% and I wonder if we will ever admit it when we start falling to use only 9%? I would hate to start having to pick and choose which things to know and which to remain ignorant of. I guess I’m just too damn greedy for knowledge for my own good. I want to know it all. Omniscience is my goal and I plan to claw my way there any way I can.

Possibly more will come later after I disect these thoughts a little further.

Today’s Random Musing was brought to you by the chemical formula CH₃CH₂OH (Points if you know what that is without looking it up), the Number 3 and a Great White North Pizza.

Today is Friday. I’m feeling kind of run down and lazy today so I’ve decided to pass the time by spamming you all with a few quizzes. I might decide to do some serious writing later today, but for now all you get are the quizzes.

—- Editor’s Note —-

Quiz Images deleted due to the annoyance factor they caused by not lining up properly. Instead, here are the links to the quizzes.

What Fruit Are You?

Which kind of Frog are you?

Take the Which Elvis Are You? quiz

Which Internal Organ are you?

Find out which Dead Russian Composer you are

Bugger. I really hate a blank page that continuously stays blank. Especially after writing so much drivel the other night. Now I’m staring at those couple paragraphs and wondering what, if anything, I can salvage from them… and how to go about doing it.

Some days I really wish I could just photocopy my head and, instead of getting a rather bad picture of myself being blinded, words and thoughts would appear. Then all I’d have to do would be to organise my notes.

Oh well. No one ever said it would be easy. Once more into the breach I go. Perhaps if I stare at the page long enough it will start accepting the right words out of fear or something.

G’nite.