Utterly Random Musings

So this post is likely to be all over the place. Bout time too.

We’ll start off with a picture.. of the Olympics – that beacon of hope, peace etc. etc.

Bit sad really isn’t it? And is seems pretty damn ridiculous to me to bring the torch up to the top of Everest. I mean really. Isn’t it supposed to stay lit? How are they going to manage that with so little oxygen about? And I wonder how many people will die to complete the stunt. Not that the Chinese are likely to let us find out as the entire thing seems to be shrouded in mystery.

Sigh.

What else…. Work is going well.. playing about with some fun technologies and learning a bit – which is all to the good. Looking forward to the new ski season – and getting www.snowpool.org.nz up and running again. Need to spend a little time on that over the next week or two.

So yes, the other random thing – does anyone out there ever actually catch themselves and think damn this is weird. I mean… life… it’s very odd really. Where it comes from, what it means etc. My friend Marcel said some (clever) mathematician has postulated that on balance of probability that this is all just a simulation anyway. Like the Matrix.

I’m not sure I want to die and then have the equivalent of a game over screen flashing Game Over, you scored 10,213,998 points. But I mean it is remotely possible that we are all on a starship passing between the galaxies at sub-light speeds and using this pretty damn cool game as a way of passing the time.

I mean I’m not saying it is like this… but who knows? Can’t prove it either way! That’s the beauty of it.

I was reading on Wikipedia about Dyson Spheres and how were there to be extra terrestrials they would most likely be building these things (basically a shell around the sun taking all the energy)… and we can’t see them.. So maybe we are at the start of the whole thing (and not already travelling the stars). Then again… in this simulation we may have just taken the most exciting part of human existence to play again and again.

Anyway, I’m waffling and the silent watchers are out there and might come after me ;) hehehe.

Had a really great dinner and evening with Graham & Myra – except that Myra won the first (And her first ever) game of Tantrix. Great game… Also Autumn is here – and with it is far colder weather – but some lovely sights.

I don’t like complaining about New Zealand, in the hope that it may eventually attract many of my friends from Ireland to come and live over here, and the friends I have made here and who have left, to come back. However!, Kiwi building standards are utterly contemptible. Really are. A Kiwi’s face will go completely blank when confronted with words like “Insulation” and “Double Glazing” let alone “Central Heating”… and as for the drivers…