My Addiction

Facebook is my addiction. I check it in the morning, I check it in the afternoon, I check it in the god damn restroom when I am taking a dump. God damn it Facebook, why? Its because it feels like it provides me direction. The same kind of addiction associated with binge watching a TV show. However since Facebook makes me this way. I stop pursuing things that truly provide direction in my life i.e. starting a company, learning a language etc. Because the direction that Facebook provides me is quick and easy fix, vs actual direction which is more difficult to pursue. This is accelerated by the quick and easy access to information that Google provides because now, Facebook provides a direction in my life while Google takes care of my procrastination, causing an endless cycle of nothingness.

Computer Program

Life is like a computer program, just cause you get some runtime errors doesn't mean you can't go back and recompile. Unless you die, so don't do anything too stupid.

Reap what you sow

I think in this socially connected world, we are looking for instant gratification more often than not. When we put in some effort we expect to see results or we are disappointed for ourselves. But that's not usually  how the world works, because Gratification is not a click or a doughnut away (well sometimes). In back in the day when the term "you reap what you sow" was coined. Farmers worked long hard hours, not being able to see their end product. Only when they put in the required amount of hours did they see their end results, and even then sometimes they wouldn't see anything. Life is like rice, sometimes you reap what you sow, other times you just have to go.

Losing

You take that quiz, should you divide by gcc? Should you not? Your adrenaline rises. Stop it, you tell yourself. You don't seem to be able to. Finally you give in and tune out the voices in your head, rising in pitch and volume. Silence... An eerie calm fills you as you get up. You turn in your quiz, and now you realize you made a horrible mistake. What is common sense telling you? Gcc matters, or else the units don't work out. You have turned in a quiz with all the wrong answers... Because of one constant term you screwed up. Its worth maybe 0.1% of your final grade. But still care. Why? Because you hate losing more than you love winning, and that's why you have the seeds of success sown in your blood. I guess happiness just comes later. Now I have to work...

Gun Control

Using the past, and traditions as an excuse to committing the same mistakes over and over again is the first step to the demise of any entity. Corporations change to suit market needs or they go extinct. People change in order to keep their job. Countries change in order to prevent collapse i.e. prevent the next Rome. Complacency is justified by tradition, until its too late to close the rift formed by outdated policy and antiquated thinking. Ordinary citizens have no reason to have guns, and this just signifies a deeply rooted mistrust in government. With a means there is a way; hence, guns provide the means of killing people which, is in a way, less personal than other means of murder. Therefore, murder becomes an option on the minds of many people who would have dismissed that fact if otherwise unavailable, and an inception of an idea occurs. Allowing the fermentation of this idea over time, i.e. escalation, causes incidents like Sandy Hook, and Aurora to occur, and the interesting fact is that even when guns aren't used in homicide, the fact that they are options, helps the perpetrator down the path of killing. And when guns speak louder than words, the seeds of Anarchy have been sown.

How to design your own linux machine

Design a Linux Computer: http://hforsten.com/making-embedded-linux-computer.html

Edit this is cool too: http://www.opencircuits.com/Linuxstamp

Very Interesting post on how to make and flash a Linux computer. I was thinking about a new product. Maybe just a tease. Calling it the Box... The Box Touch? IDK. Remember, I'm still a caffeine zombie.

Caffeine

I understand now, Caffeine doesn't last forever, nor does its effect if you keep drinking it. I think I've turned into a zombie. Save that for special occasions. Bawls, I guess its like my Shiner Bock. Damn it, hopefully Kanye West will do the trick.