If Gentoo Linux were a Car...

1. You go pick up an engine (in pieces) and body parts from the central warehouse.
2. You find that your version of sys-car/transmission is too new and you need to get a newer version of sys-car/engine out of storage.
3. You put together the engine, transmission, and body. You're pretty psyched, only to find that you have yet to install car-misc/seats.
4. You install the seats, but find that the latest version of car-misc/seats does not correctly recognize the human body, due to an incompatibility.
5. You downgrade car-misc/seats and in the process must downgrade sys-apps/steering-wheel for height concerns.
6. You install the radio separately, which is the easiest part.
7. You turn the car on and it explodes.

Latenight philosophy with DH and DS

"Me" is me, "Dustin" is DSollick. Dustin was reading through (and critiquing harshly) a story he wrote.

Dustin: No shit, nothing without life?@!
Me: Actually it's wrong
Me: :P
Dustin: that too, lifeless worlds
Dustin: lifeless universes
Me: The earth existed long before there was life, for example
Me: indeed
Me: THEN AGAIN
Me: what if all these lifeless worlds and lifeless universes
Me: are just things in our lives? Just things that exist because we, life, observe them?
Me: Sometimes I look in a mirror and wonder how I came to be. How I inhabit this body. What if I inhabited a different body? What recognizes vision and sound and acknowledges it? Is it a mind? Does a mind do that? Or is it the soul. I don't think you can hook up eyes and ears to a brain and have a person. I don't think they'll see the world like any of us. If at all. But what.
Me: What happens when I die? When I am reborn. Do I inhabit another body? Obviously. Do i live through 18 years before I ask the same questions? I had life experiences at 3 that I can't remember but I know i saw them through my eyes, these eyes. These. Where would they be stored? That says it's the mind. My soul would remember. Can I tap into that?
Dustin: I wasn't expecting a philosophical discussion
Dustin: x.x
Me: Neither was I.
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Me: is that how it happened
Dustin: yes.
Dustin: XD
Me: in your collective consciousness?
Me: What if we are made up of collective cohesive consciousnesses working as one? Hmm. I don't feel like multiple people, but what if we are? What if I are? Am? Is.. ? But really.
Me: Interesting thought
Dustin: I'm really glad the 11-page copy I wrote didn't make it; these are laughable, that one was grimace-worthy
Me: lmao!
Me: Maybe we are mosaics of consciousness. Each part of us coming from a different place. Varying morals. Maybe people get tainted. Maybe serial killers are tainted with a single bad piece. Spreading out like ripples.

Prayer to install Linux

Leon wanted to bless his system before he installed Linux, and I came forth with the following:

Blessed be this computer system. Remove from it under the name of the system lord Linux all sins of the hard drive and RAM. Cleansed be its bits and its bytes. Praise be the system lord Linux.

- Dustin L. Howett

It releases the system from the grips of the demons of Windows, and thus asks for it to be forgiven of its Windowsy transgressions. :)

Election 2008

I'm making a note here-
HUGE SUCCESS.

OBAMA 2008!

Humanity

I miss being human.

I'm sitting here, being all deep and emotional-- can't put any of it down because it doesn't make any sense--
the best I can do is...
I miss being human.

Stupid sleep deprivation.
Stupid crying.
What's wrong with me?

I sleep 12 hours a day, and waste away the rest of it in front of a computer.
I think I'm becoming one myself. I barely feel anymore, and that scares me.
Maybe I'm just tired.