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I want a wind turbine
Apr 25th
You know what would be nice to have? A wind turbine.
One day, I’ll be living in a house designed by some fancy architect with the requirements that I define. One of the requirements would be to have solar panels over the entire roof. In the backyard I want to have a HUGE wind turbine. Like it’ll be MASSIVE. It’ll obviously be slow rotating due to it’s size but it’ll be cool just watching it spin. So yes, front side of my house will be the ocean and at the back I would have a massive wind turbine. Oh and can’t forget the secret room, might have to hire some mercenaries to take out the architect and construction works after they build my secret room though…hmmm.
For the moment I can say that Phase 1 of my 4 year plan is already under way. Nothing is set in stone but it is in progress.
I was surfing on reddit today and saw some interesting AskReddit posts. For those unaware, it’s basically people asking the internet collective questions which they in turn reply. Responses are either “upvoted” or “downvoted” and a ranking system is used to display the replies.
The first AskReddit post was What’s the most painful and profound truth about life you’ve realized so far?
The top reply is:
“No matter how much your world might crumble down around you, no matter what horrific things have occurred to you and your loved ones, no matter how devastated YOU are about these events…the world just doesn’t care.
Life continues to go on for everyone around you. You are insignificant.”
The world may not care…but someone does. You may not be aware of it, but someone out there cares. To the world you might be insignificant, but you might be the world to someone else.
The second reply is:
“That most people, including myself, are pretty fucking selfish.”
Truth. Everybody is selfish. Why are the “nice guys” so nice? They’re not nice because they’re so selfless…they’re nice cause they want to get inside your pants, so you will owe them something or simply expand their network. Though I must say, I am the most selfless person you will ever meet, I once saved a room full of children from a burning building. True story.
As usual somebody posts up the antithesis, What’s the most cheerful and enlightening truth about life you’ve realized so far?
Top reply:
“Some girls like me.”
…yeah…
Second reply:
“There are millions of college-aged Asian girls.”
*sigh* Internet I am disappoint.
Third reply:
“No matter how much I fuck up, there’s some poor sap that’s done worse than I have.”
Face-palm.
Okay, finally after a couple of more comments you find this reply:
“There are plenty of genuinely nice people and beautiful things to balance out all the cruelty and ugliness, and we can appreciate the good all the more because of the bad.”
Followed by:
“There is no inherent purpose to life. Create your own.”
Damn it internet, I wish I came up with these lines.
To end this post, here’s a youtube vid of some asian kid singing “Total Eclipse of the Heart” with William Shatner.
Edit:
My response to the two reddit questions?
Life has it’s up and downs, though sometimes things will never work out the way you plan, no matter how hard you try, hope for, or dream about. But for every moment that you’re happy, it’s a sum of all your past experiences, good and bad, that leads you down your current path
Best place on the internet
Dec 9th
I’m always quite cynical about people on the internet. Filled with trolls, spammers, scammers etc
But underneath all that lives a community that I believe makes our world a better place to live in…
…and that is www.reddit.com
Okay, a lot of you might be thinking “pfft, just another community that posts useless crap on the internet to gain “lulz” where the majority of people are males under 40 living in their mother’s basement”. I’m sure that statement has some sort of merit but it doesn’t mean they’re all bad people.
Reddit inspires user driven projects. E.g. www.imgur.com was designed for digg/reddit (digg didn’t appreciate it but it took reddit by storm). The guy who made is losing HEAPS of money each month, but he does it anyway, and with the support of reddit I think he might actually be making a profit now.
A more recent development (not that imgur.com isn’t recent) is reddit secret santa. A user thought that getting reddit to do secret santa would be a pretty good idea and managed to generate enough support!
Today I received a package in the mail.
I honestly did not expect to get anything from Secret Santa, but what do you know, some guy in the states spent $50 bucks to get these marvelous things delivered to me.
People even ask for personal advice on reddit. I mean sure, getting feedback from untrained professionals is probably a bad idea especially when the topic is…say suicide, but I’m sure most people feel better after reading some of the feedback.
Here is one very good (or bad) example.
For those who don’t visit reddit, give it a go, subscribe to their rss feed. Most of the time it’ll make you seriously LOL but other times it might actually touch you.
