Everything influences everything. The whole of humanity is just an echo of the past. If not that, then not this. We are all alive because others lived first. We hate because others hated. We love because others loved and gave it a name. We speak because others spoke. We are, because others were. Your genes look good on you despite the fact that thousands and thousands of people wore them before you. There is nothing new under the sun. We build on what came before. We assume we came up with something new, never knowing the seed of that idea […]
Seeking Something Greater
Peeking around corners, looking through old things Knowing that something better, greater, is there and it’s meant to be found Finding not what one is looking for, but what has always been there Hidden and waiting for the right set of senses to sense Going here and going there, looking for new things Thinking the new will bring that old thing back Knowing that something better, greater, is out there Waiting to be found, patiently Thinking those thoughts, examining the inside Hoping that within may be found that…something That clue or key or epiphany that leads to something greater That […]
On Thought and Nothingness
On Nothingness: It is What it Is Life is full of contradiction and inconsistency. But life is just life; it’s the human mind and the collective conscious that adds so much complexity to something that is so simple. Consider this: We live and we die. That’s it. Everything else in between is just so much nothing when compared to these greater truths. As they are wont to say in some places, “it is what it is.” It cannot be more, it cannot be less, it just is. When considered that way, the basic foundations of all things in existence can be […]
What is Freedom and Why Don’t We Have it?
What exactly is freedom? The United States has always been a country where both the word and the idea have been a little…malleable. But even if you don’t know fully what it means or is, you damn sure know that what little of it you have is slowly slipping away from you. But is the greater good a good excuse? The Problem With the Idea of Freedom in the U.S. The problem with freedom – the idea of freedom – is that no one wants it. That is to say, no one wants to put in the work necessary to […]
Blog Post Ideas
A couple of days ago I tweeted a seemingly asinine request for ideas for blog posts. Well, I got quite a few of them and I think I’m gonna actually use them…all of them. Not immediately, but more as challenges to myself to see what I can come up with given the subject, or for when I’m bored or in need of inspiration. Might be a general blog post, informational, a piece of poetry, or something else. I don’t know yet. But here are the ideas, in no particular order, that were sent to me: The similarities/necessity of and for […]
Skippy Snack Bar Commercial With the Elephants
Have You Seen the Skippy Snack Bar Commercial With the Elephants? I have no idea how people didn’t like this commercial…I mean, really…It’s SKIPPY! That’s what’s in the jar, the very same Skippy, that’s what’s in the bar! Honestly, I thought they caught a legitimate reggae vibe with this one. The song has been stuck in my head for years now. To this day I randomly up and start singing it. See for yourself. skippy A horde of hungry elephants scarfing down Skippy Snack Bars while enjoying a reggae concert during Spring Break. You can’t beat that. 😉 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xeg4p_skippy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM6dFRN-5TU […]
Idea For A New Twitter App
The Original Posts: “wondering if anybody thinks it’s feasible to prune their tweets or to re-post older tweets that new followers probably never seen?” http://twitter.com/silenciobarnes/status/3173520788 posted by @SilencioBarnes “Re @SilencioBarnes statuses/3173520788 – IMO better idea is to write spider that uses API to harvest *all* your tweets, buildIntoDB, cluster” http://twitter.com/CalRobert/status/3190714241 posted by @CalRobert I think the idea of using a spider to harvest an individual person’s tweets is excellent – maybe such a thing could be implemented in conjunction with the Twitter API to build an application that can be used to harvest your tweets, search and edit them, delete […]
Who Should Make the First Move?
This is a response to a question asked by a friend on FaceBook “Ladies, if you like a guy do you make the first move or wait until he moves on you?” Me: Don’t wait too long – that’s a mistake that women seem to make a lot – some dudes just won’t take that first step until YOU let him know that you’re feeling him some sort of way – that’s why I like bold women – just put it out there in the air ya know, and let him make a decision from there. However, someone else said something that […]
I Am Not My Hair
I was thinking about my hair. I have very nappy, kinky, unruly hair. There isn’t much I can do with it but have it braided or cut off. Personally, I don’t mind either option, but currently, I would rather have it than cut it. However, many people, especially women, presume to make that decision for me. They usually tell me to cut it. These are their arguments for cutting my hair: It will make me look more pleasing to the eye – It will make me look more professional – a low-cut or shaved head is a sign of maturity […]
