Being in a museum always freaks me out. My mind tries to conceptualize the idea that the piece of currency before me traveled through hundreds of hands before anyone on this planet was even alive. This limestone tomb once held a dead body. The deceased person's family picked it out, had his portrait carved onto it, and that is where he decomposed. My head then wants to imagine how the artifact looked as it passed through every era and style leading it to today. Chronology is not the easiest thing to visualize, either. Unfortunately God has not been tape recording all of this in compressed time so that we may re-watch it and understand the universe. It's like these artifacts are here taunting me, knowing that I can't possibly know what life was like before people started to write things down. By not documenting early human beings it's like a large part of our history as a species has been erased.

This brings up an interesting thought for me. If we have so many other old things we're excavating, why haven't we excavated any half human half lesser life forms yet? We should have found some by now if they're out there. The lack of doesn't rule it out, I suppose, but all in all it intrigues me. Perhaps we did just start out of nothingness, fully formed and ready to go.

I can't believe this blog is halfway through its third year. It will be an interesting memento of my college experiences. Too bad I took two six month breaks. The best part is that the unpublished drafts say the most about me, and I will enjoy reading them (while you cannot).

lol I feel personally privileged. Gordon and I are watching the Report and Stephen made up the word "Wikilobbying," since Microsoft paid money to have a user edit all of the Microsoft entries on Wikipedia to make Microsoft look better. He then made a wager that if someone in the nation would change the Wikipedia entry for "reality" to "Reality becomes a commodity," he would give them five dollars. I considered doing it, since I was typing this blog entry already anyway, but I was too lazy. Instead I waited 5 seconds, went to the Wiki page (with total confidence that it hard already been changed), and sure enough, all the page said was the quote, nothing else. I hit refresh immediately and it had already been reverted to the original definition and protected against edits. Gordon and I were lucky enough to see it in all of its glory, and this brief moment in history will remain frozen in our minds. We've decided that both hopeful fans and Wiki administrators watch the Colbert Report every night with their browsers open to Wikipedia. Thinking of this puts me easily to sleep at night =)

Labels: philosophy, Spider Monkey Doughnuts, Stephen Colbert, Wikipedia