I've been in an odd mood lately. It's weird how the end of summer still gets to me.

Procrastination is like masturbation. It’s a lot of fun until you realize you’re only screwing yourself. Someone needs to save me from myself. Seriously.

Flame wars move from Usenet to the blogosphere

Which way to go? Some other random stuff.

Are you supposed to believe in dreams? Not wishes or hopes or aspirations or anything like that—these are things from the waking world. But actual dreams: the kaleidoscopic menagerie of images running around your subconscious, where disbelief is not only suspended, but quite possibly expelled and turned over to the authorities. Where everything is true, even when it isn’t or can’t possibly be. *sigh*

Part I:

…I don't see anything wrong with the "user as definer" paradigm. It even seems very egalitarian to me. Despite negative connotations of the broader usage of "user". "Using" is probably one of the basic defining concepts of intelligence—notice how tool usage is not simply limited to the human species, but it definitely gave us a competitive advantage, and it is probably a hallmark of most successful (in a biological sense) species (that is, complex species.)