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Saturday, October 27   We are approaching the pinnacle of blogger evolution. When you can start playing "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" with blogs then you know that incredible things are happening in the world. When blogging circles start independently of one other and then end up linking together you get.....a bigger blog circle. And when that all links back to gomakross.org (the mothership of the blogging universe as far as i'm concerned), which was the very first blog site my virgin eyes saw, well...it's like flying back to the dawn of time and watching man evolve from a little feral monkey. I feel like Darwin. Blogging circles united. I am bursting with fruit flavor. Thanks to -oO7- for investigative contributions and to -pogiboy- and -superlum- for reaffirming my faith in the healing powers of blog. I feel that the next logical target for blogger world domination would have to be -porta- and -lynnwc-. Resistance is futile -lynnwc-. Given enough pressure even an egg will crack. Blogging is as inevitable as world peace and Boba King. Ok...i am way too excited. posted by jon Wednesday, October 24   Not really...you're the one who has to work and support the two of us...i'm pretty much free to lounge around at will. posted by Tin   Doesn't all this want to make you cry and jump off a low two-story balcony? posted by jon   I for one blame Adam Smith and the division of labour for making us all into cogs and automatons. posted by Tin   How can anyone expect to settle upon a career in which we do the same thing over and over for twenty years? It's impossible. Right now the whole prospect of a career pretty much scares everyone i know. Nobody told me that the post-college years were going to be the ones where you were truly lost...isn't that what college was for? posted by jon   Everyone wants a cause to fight for and a reason for living. It's sad isn't it when you realize that "special" really does mean only the top 10%. Not everyone can be special...heck, half of us are just barely average. posted by Tin   This is something that is frightening to realize. We all come out of college looking for a fulfilling job that we can throw ourselves into. Graphic designers want to create amazing things...architects want to design beautiful buildings...psychologists want to help people...engineers want to create marvels of modern technology...business people want to make money...philosophers want to sit around and think. But outside of business people sometimes, we really can't get what we want. Everyone feels like they are "special" coming out of college and they want to make a difference and find that perfect job. When you look at the numbers game and you look at the realities of our current day situation, just about everyone will be hemmed into a job that only requires mindless monotony. And this isn't only because we are inexperienced and young. I forsee this happening forever. Lucky are the few who get to pursue their dreams and to find a job that engages them. Look at our parents...i don't see them doing things that they necessarily have a passion for. When they came up in the world their dreams were perhaps different but it's incredibly depressing to me to realize how mundane the world is and how many people are forced into mundane lives to preserve our financial independence. posted by jon Wednesday, October 10   Let's hope we're not doing the same thing next year in October eh? posted by Tin   What can i say i guess. One year older. Met some new friends. Wasted some more money. Gathered a community of bloggers. Sad how that could be my single most notable achievement over the past twelve months...blogging. I guess i'll celebrate it by putting up some archives (over there on the right in case you missed it) so that everyone can see how much my life has remained on auto-pilot. posted by jon   Hate to tell you this buddy but that's not a circle you're walking in...it's a rut. posted by Tin   Yes...it's kind of funny how life goes cyclically. I feel like i'm at a very similar spot as i was last year at this time. posted by jon   At least you've accomplished some things. Nothing worthwhile of course. Last year you had a plan and now you have another plan...sort of. posted by Tin   You're right actually. It's like i'm traveling back in time...i'm regressing. If anything i'm more confused now that i was last October. Joy. posted by jon   Not much to look at is it? At least last year at this time you had a job. What you got now? posted by Tin   I scrolled down to the very bottom of my blog page and noticed that i have been blogging for exactly a year and six days. My blogger is now one year old and i have the luxury of looking over my life for past year. posted by jon Wednesday, October 3   It must feel so nice to be an optimistic dimwit. I'd rather start with the premise that all men are evil and be pleasantly surprised from time to time. posted by Tin   You take it how you want but i'm just gonna use it to remind myself that people are inherently much more complex than they let on. And to move towards unraveling that complexity. posted by jon   The important thing to remember here is that you should never be fooled by a person's exterior. And that you can also construct an false exterior for your own diabolical needs if you are so inclined. posted by Tin   That certainly puts a different spin on it. I guess in a way we're both talking about the same thing. I just kind of took it as inspiration to always strive to be one of the few who know what people really are like...i just took that last line as a statement on little effect a minority opinion has. I do think what he says is very true, about how it is so much easier to see and make a judgement, as opposed to actually opening up your mind and "feeling." posted by jon   Being a tad more cynical and taking into context that Machiavelli was talking about ruling a nation, i kind of think that what he's saying is that people are easily fooled. By presenting and maintaining an image, you can hide whatever it is you want to hide and be whatever it is people want you to be...thus tricking people into believing what they want to see. posted by Tin   Well, i kind of take as meaning that everyone has this facade that they show the world and only a few bother to go beyond that first couple of layers. And also that most people aren't equipped to handle more than those first couple of superficial layers. Not that those initial layers have to be superficial but i kind of think that whatever public face people present, there's always something deeper going on. posted by jon   Ok, what does that mean? posted by Tin   "Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but only a few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion." -Niccolio Machiavelli, The Prince- posted by jon   powered by blogger   << x BlogxPhiles x >>

the wizard our naive protagonist. think harry potter. but older. and not as cool. the wizard has feelings and emotions and all of that human bs. the wizard is lost, lonely, and curious. aren't you? tin man the batman to the wizard's robin, the jordan to wiz's pippen, the britney to the wizard's justin, the skipper to the wizard's gilligan, the jon to the george...yeah, you get it. the tin man is stronger, faster, and more powerful than any locomotive. but he's not real. just a heartless, soulless, practical machine. who happens to talk.