Emerging Technologies

Today I have decided to join the countless selfless masses and create a "blog". I resisted this inevitability for as long as possible, but the time has come. I can no longer sit idly by while 90 year old grandmas and 13 year old ragamuffins unleash their internal dialogs upon the world without finally joining them. I really didn't want it to come to this. I was blissful in my ignorance of the blog-o-sphere, as I'm sure you were blissful in your ignorance of my existence. But I have realized that I have a responsibility... a duty to contribute my mental ramblings to the bubbling stew of uncensored, public thought. For only when every man, woman, and child's ideas, thoughts, emotions, and opinions are laid bare for the world to see with real truth, eternal truth, emerge (and hopefully, as technology advances, dolphins and chimps will contribute as well).

As I donate my simple musings to this electronic collective I have high hopes that the Internet will assimilate my postings along with all the others and boil them down into a solid chunk of immutable truth. And in true philanthropic fashion, I would expect the Internet to take this refined truth and post it upon itself for the whole world to see. And together, we can all look upon that eternal truth and say, "We did that." Finally, life would be grand.

So these are my hopes and my dreams. To make them possible, I will blog. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to go about this whole blog idea. I don't read blogs. I assume nobody does. Why would anyone want to hear the crazy stuff I have to say. Certainly nobody I meet wants to listen to me (and the feeling is usually mutual), so why would anybody go out of their way to search me out in a virtual universe to listen... No, not listen. To read, which takes effort, to what I have to say. The simple answer... they won't! Which is great. As if my anonymity didn't give me enough license to spout nonsense, but to know that nobody will actually hear my words... well, that gives me freedom to do anything. Hell, I wouldn't even need to follow the basic rules of English writing and formatting. Spellcheck? Who needs it! It's as though I'm living in a literary Matrix and the rules don't apply. But I digress. Besides, the formatting of the English language serves many practical functions.

Now, to get on with contributing to the greater good. What to blog about? The innate complexities of the human mind give a vast array of options. To pick out one little, tiny speck of thought from the ocean of consciousness and ramble mindlessly about it is... well... mind boggling. It's like a menu at Denny's. You have so many choices to choose from yet you know that, ultimately, it doesn't make a difference because what you'll end up with will be a sub-par jumbling of mush. Exactly how I feel about the endless, little specks of mundane drudgery that make up the hours of our lives. Which ones are blog-able? All, I assume. Where should I start? Ah... I don't know. Maybe I'll think of something tomorrow.