A rather late post

You noticed why Scivikk hasn't posted recently?

I believe that he was abducted by people whom he mistakenly calls his "friends", and taken on a journey he he was convinced would be "fun"..

He has been deceived.

But he's back now (or at least someone wearing his skin), so he can be here to see the amazing fantascular code I wrote! How fascinating for him!

And the leaves are white!

If the Rains make the trees grow,
What does the thunder grow?

I meant to blog an analysis of my life right now(their fun, albeit depressing) but i was desperate to know the answer to my new mind consuming question....

I'm not saying i am spiritual or anything (paranoia is a far better word for it...) but it's not like the lightning just soaks into the ground and disappears for ever...
and nothing you say will make the obvious seem obvious to me.
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Stolen from Google's mantra

I wrote "Do No Evil" on my wrist, so that now whenever I do something I can look at my write to check if I should be doing it or not. It's a sound plan.

Googles mantra is "Don't Be Evil", which is kinda similar but more casual, and I wanted mine to be more like an undeniable truth.

Now I have a moth and "Do No Evil" on my arm!
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Buzzing like a fridge......*giggle*........

I just deleted the paragraph i had written, describing last nights dream. Take it as a favour. Those kinds of dreams belong in Super Scary movies, made for people with bladders of steel. If you are really into those kinds of things, it involved a balloon, intestines and children. I'll let your stupid overactive imaginations take it from there.

I feel like somebody has placed a thousand electric toothbrushes next to a microphone and the speaker is conveniently placed inside me ear.
Maybe i'll try and dig it out with a fork? Or a chainsaw....

Anyway, may this be the end of Square's unofficial Radiohead week, which has been jam packed with accidental Radiohead mentions and praises for In Rainbows (get it now you conformist swine). Just be thankful we didn't attempt a review....
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It's raining now

It's raining now.

Whenever it rains, I get reminded of a time when someone told me how they love to curl up somewhere warm and read when it rains and I've always wanted to try it.

Unfortunately, I always seem to find myself in front of the computer when it rains (unless it's a thunderstorm).

One day I'm going to try it, one day... Let me just finish what I'm doing on the computer first.

BTW- Radioheads new album is awesome.
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For your sake

It's raining now. When it rains i seem to be prone to deep, emotional moods, full of feelings and thoughts. That is precisely why i should press Publish now and pull out the plug on the computer. And then tie myself to a chair. A chair on the bottom of the ocean. Guarded by Gandalf (who is a very good guard).

Plus i'm listening to the new Radiohead album (Which is like a depressing, inspirational butterfly has crawled into your brain and taken over, which is a good thing) which really isn't helping.

Anyway, Onto deeper, more serous thoughts....
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Writing things on your arm

Remind me why it's socially unacceptable to write things on your arm?

Maybe I have a warped sense of aesthetics, but I actually like the look of writing on arms.

I'm not here to question what people think looks good, but don't you think that the world would be a much nicer place if people would just write things on their arm rather than just be stressed trying to remember?


What? You don't agree with me?
Well, good for you, but I'm going to draw a moth on my arm now-- let's see you try and stop me.
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Stalker

Today i sat in the bus. That in itself is pretty strange, because usually i wouldn't be paying enough attention to the material world to notice whether i was sitting or lying or kneeling or dying.

then the bus comes to a stop, near a mc Donald's. About 10 cm away is a leaf from a tree outside, and on that leaf is a moth.

The moth, most likely outraged by the fact that a bus was suddenly 10cm away flew straight at my face and landed in a tiny nook in between the glass and the window frame of the bus.

After a while of simply staring at the moth (20 minutes?) i look down for the briefest second to change the band playing on my ipod (From the Panda Band to Radiohead, if you must know). When i look up the moth has, incredibly, surprisingly, disappeared.

I was sad, and decided that our time together had ended, and the moth really could find a better friend in any ol' bus window.

So i get home. I walk inside, throwing my bag violently at the wall (As one does) and scratch my head.

On my hand, picked up during my joyous scalp scratching, is my moth.

Where is it now i wonder? i don't know, where do you find things made of dream? in my pillow?
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No TV watching this week!

I'm trying to not watch ANY television this week, I want to see if I can pull it off.

I was inspired to do this because I remember a quote from an American newspaper just after TVs were first made commercially-- it went something like this:

"It [TV] will never catch on as the average American does not have enough hours in his day to spend in front of it"

This made me think: If it is so integrated into society, what will happen if I remove it? How many hours will I free up in the day?

When I'm saying this, I'm trying not to sound as though I'm superior to people who enjoy TV, because it's not like you're letting the world down by watching it, and it's not like it's in any way degrading you as a person. This is just an experiment to see what it would be like.
I'm not preaching to you "TV is eviiil, don't watch it!" But, could you live without it? If your answer is yes, then you actually have good reason to feel happy about yourself, if your answer is no, then at least you're not alone...
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What the hell are mental Blanks made from? Reinforced Steel!?!

If my life was a saga (Which it is) who would be the love interest? probably me...

I should be doing a thousand things right now, all very very productive and life-status-enhancing. Amongst them is doing work, studying, creating an artistic master piece, creating a musical masterpiece and mating a kangaroo with a crocodile to try and bring back the dinosaurs.

Maybe tomorrow....
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Fish in mexico!

Let's assume that my fish wanted to take a holiday to Mexico. They know about Mexico because they have an Internet connection in there (but since it's underwater it runs on steam not electricity)

How would they do it?

Well, it's not like they can get out of the tank, although I'm sure that they could make some sort of simple breathing apparatus, then they would still need to be able to move around and not dry out, which would be difficult. And it's not like they could put wheels on the bottom of the tank either, because it's on the top of a shelf.

No, I think their only chance is tricking humans into carrying them. I would assume that they would use their steam-powered Internet connection to sell themselves on eBay to a fictional buyer in Mexico. They could get carted away, very carefully so as not to spill the water, and get flown to Mexico. Once there, the delivery would need to be signed by someone, for which they would have remotely constructed a clockwork figurine to do the signing for them.

I'm not sure what they would want to do in Mexico, but they would eventually come back.

To do that they would need to build wheels and an engine for the tank, which they would drive to America. In America they would hijack the space shuttle. After the shuttle launches they would eject in their pressurised space capsule over my continent, and since they would not have achieved orbit they would be able to float down on a parachute. They would land on my roof and burst trough my ceiling to land exactly from where they left.

What? Too far-fetched?
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Food comes before Dedication to Blog

If my life was a saga (which it is) Who would be the villain? Probably me...

Speaking of conspiracies (Off course we were, silly!) has anyone else noticed the similarity between the Queen and George Bush? A bit of family black-dealing with, eh? EH?
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Mysterious dissappearing websites

A while ago I needed cheering up so I decided to look for some conspiracy theory sites to laugh at, one of the ones I found was called Area 51 Central. It wasn't so bad a site, but eventually I got bored with laughing at peoples misconceptions (because that's mean!) So I stopped going there. A while later, earlier this year I think, I decided to check on it to see how it was doing.

Seems that the forums had been disabled and a message left on the site saying that the owner of the site had found religion and saw the misgivings of his ways and said that aliens were actually demons in disguise and apologised for misleading people.

This was around the time of April fools so I thought nothing of it.

But later on the message was still there! I figured that the site owner must have been telling the truth. The weird thing was that this was a popular website, and quite embedded in a circle of other conspiracy sites, but there was no mention of it ending whatsoever.

This was pretty weird, but I had long given up on the conspiracies so I didn't think much of it.

Later on the old URL of the site (www.area51central.com) now links to a completely unrelated online game called "Torn city". This is just bizarre and strange, how can a large site with a strong following just disappear? What is "Torn city"? Why was this not mentioned on any of the closely linked sites?

Too many questions, I think I'll just stop asking.

The Call

Last night was one of the most fantabulous 2 hours i have been subjected to! They played almost all my favorite songs, including the most brilliant one none of my less hardcore friends seem to like. That's right ladies and Gentlemen. The Cat Empire is Better then sex.

In more important news a 9B lead pencil is staring at me with a blunt end, sending me endless mental commands to sharpen it and put it in my pocket. Really, i have no choice, so goodnight.
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What the bleep does "squares" mean anyway?

Scivikk recently suggested to me that we change the name and/or URL of this blog.

I figured it was a fair idea, I never liked having my name first anyway. But we can't really abandon this until I figure out what "squares" is supposed to mean!

Is it a message from beyond the stars? Does it signify the symmetry of nature? Does it fit nicely with "scivikk" and "Sqityl"?

I'm not really sure, but I am going to find out, whether it likes it or not.

Depression on Inspiration

I draw a lot. Sometimes, usually specifically drawn for squares i will scan one and put it in a post.

When i do this it is usual when there are no ideas hidden in my keyboard. Instead i will pick up the closest writing stick and draw a thing. Then an idea will begin developing and i can draw more things until an idea is full.

Sometimes there are no ideas in the keyboard or in a nearby writing stick, so i will wait until my sub-conscience gestates one or go and release an idea from inside the piano, guitar or saxophone instead. Or maybe sometimes from my baby $30 accordion or throat.

If all fails i will go outside and draw an idea from wherever dreams come from, and watch it on my personal minds-eye theater screen. Few people understand this though when i try to explain, as i'm sure you won't. You see, outside there is a trampoline. When i jump on the trampoline my mind lifts from whatever the physical world holds me with and i very literally watch my 3D ideas and stories. Unfortunately i am a bit beyond the age where we all jump on trampolines everyday and know that somehow this must come to the end, and i'm scared of losing my dreams with them. The trampoline is like a net, that scoops the images up, or dislodges them from wherever they hide. Maybe its like hypnosis, repetitive light physical movement. Trying to do it sitting still or lying down does not work, as i get distracted by stray thoughts and ideas and lose my place on the reel, and walking or jogging requires slightly more attention and has too many distractions. Someone once recommended a swing, but thats not really any better...

Bungee jumping?

AI

The last post mentioned artificial intelligence, which interested me greatly because I like that sort of thing. First of all, it won't happen for a long time, we aren't even close to having the technology required to do it.

One way we can test for artificial intelligence is called a "Turing test", where a machine passes if it can have a conversation with a human that's indistinguishable from another human. Then there's the kind of A.I. which is just like people, where it thinks for itself rather than blindly following a program.

A.I. as we have it today is no different than if you were reading the answers off a sheet-- there can be no original thought, mainly because we have no idea how that would be done.
"True" A.I. is a long way off.

Our problem is that we don't even know how the human mind works, so we can hardly build one of our own. Although everyday we are making progress, it will be a long time before anything revolutionary happens.

I wonder if our brain has a Master Switch?

Somebody once told me that our brains work by trillions of electric signals and switches. I suppose that is how people say artificial intelligence would work, with nano-transistors and stuff.

What if you got rid of the switches all together and simply had electric currents in the pattern of a human personality in the ether? would that give you a ghost or a god? It's not an original idea, but nothing really is. Have there ever been any truly original ideas? As long as you have a healthily cynical aspect on life, never.
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Philosophy make me angry

Philosophy makes me angry.

It's true, but I often read it just to boil my blood so I can feel happier about doing other things.

My problem with philosophy is that there are a list of all the major problems in philosophy, and I either can name all the answers or their indescribably stupid questions. My problem is that I'm too much of a scientific mind to appreciate philosophy... but what good is something if it can't be looked at scientifically? Whats the point?

For example, three famous philosophical questions:

1. If a tree falls over in the forest, and nobodies around, does it make a sound?

Well, it makes vibrations in the air, but it does not create a signal in the brain that we interpret as sound.

PROBLEM SOLVED

2. What is the sound of one hand clapping?

Sort of muffled "fup" sound.

PROBLEM SOLVED

3. What is truth?

This is a stupid question. Truth is fact.

PROBLEM SOLVED


Do you have any age old philosophical questions that you want a half-answer for? Then please ask me, I need a good laugh.

It may be cake but its all crap to me

Some people don't mind math. Some people can cope with maths. Some people even like maths (sqityl...)! That's ok for them!

But!

I am willing to bet $100 dollars that Algebraic Simultaneous Equations will Never be part of my life after school, Never!

And thus mr Maths teacher, i really don't care so please, please go and eat cake out of a toilet, then go and speak your pretentious filth to the poor unfortunate bastards who care.
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A happy little rant

Considering the last post made by Scivikk, I figured that I would have my own little rant about things.

• Inanimate objects are trying to destroy society

It's true! When I said that headphones love me, I was lying, they actually hate me. But as soon as mine broke, my old ones magically started working! what mind games are they playing with me! Why do keys always fall into drains, almost like they're magically aiming? Why do liquids and sauces always spill on you in the worst possible places? Why does a fish filter always make more noise than a truck only at night or when you are trying to concentrate? Why does my computer crash only when I'm really excited about something? Why does money hate me? Why does a carefully piled up stack of notes always fall down completely at random, even if nothing touches them? They're evil I say!

• People that are dynamic vector matrices

In my quest to understand on a very deep level how the mind works, I've come up with a model for the way that people react to things, I call it the vector matrix, and a dynamic vector protocol. I won't go into detail, but a persons vector matrix is supposed to stay completely still, it just appears to be moving depending on situation, and this applies most of the time. But some people are what I call Dynamic vector matrices (DVM), and they act completely randomly to a situation, and predicting their response can be extremely difficult or impossible. This is really irritating, because it is a spanner in the works of my model of the mind, and it also makes conversation really difficult when I don't know what someone is going to say.

• People hating companies and countries because they are big

I will never understand this, but for some reason when companies or countries grow to a certain size, they are always never to be trusted!this is true to a certain degree, but some people take it to so insanely high levels of extremity that I will never believe it.

• God damned indeterminate E numbers

I am a vegetarian. and as a result I have to read the ingredients of everything I eat. That includes those numbers that they have in ingredients. I don't know if you would have seen them, but they are more common in the EU and Australia I believe (but I could be wrong). The point is, I have to know all these numbers to know which ones I can't eat, which is fine. My problem is with those numbers that might be from animals, but it is uncertain. The problem with these is that I still cannot eat them, even though chances are they are safe. I just blame penny-pinching companies who refuse to say the source of their ingredients. Also, I hate coca-cola because it thinks that fish is okay to eat for vegetarians, and then it doesn't say if it is in their products.

So that's my rant! You really didn't have to read it.

Brontofuckensaurus

Once again my fragile rage has been set loose by stupidity and public ignorance.

And Once again it is dinosaur related.

The aggressor is that stupidly childish word Brontosaurus. Somehow it has joined the stereotypical line of common dinosaurs (Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, Stegosaurus etc).

There is no such thing.

Back in the late 1800s a apatosaurus fossil was discovered. It was not immediately recognized and was titled "Brontosaurus, Thunder Lizard". A week later the mistake was fixed and STILL the word plagues our entire society!!!!

This particular utterance was in a tv guide, advertising a show named "My Pet Dino" where a bunch of dicks imagine the implications if we coexisted with dinosaurs today. "In a world where beef is replaced by Brontosaurus" the review begins....

The B word is also dropped on jelly packets, crap kiddie shows and novels where clearly the author has no idea. (the particular occurrences that i remember the most)

and i have just noticed the blogger dictionary does not recognize the word apatosaurus but is perfectly fine Brontosaurus....

My ten year old obsession is reclaiming me...
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Pentagon approves space based solar power

Who here has heard of space based solar power?

Okay, because I like explaining things, I'm going to explain it.

The idea is instead of having solar panels on earth, we spend billions of dollars to make a gigantic array of panels in space, which would be far more efficient because it could always be in the sun and the light would be much stronger.

You would get the electricity back to earth (I would assume microwaves), and even then it would only be 10 megawatts, compared with the average 120mW powerstation/

I made a diagram!

But the image uploading wont work for that, so I'll have to make do

Okay, the point of the story is, that the Pentagon recently said it was interested in it as a way to make sure that America was still top gun after an oil crisis, and also to prevent more wars over oil.

What they didn't say is that it is also to supply soldiers, for which energy is often hard to get.

It's probably not going to happen. The thing with climate change is that there is no "silver bullet" to save the world, like nuclear fusion or space based solar power as politicians like to think, but rather we need to think in many directions, and use many options.

But my opinions don't count, and if the pentagon wants more power for it's troops, it's sure going to get it somehow.

Why does spam exist?

I was clearing out my inbox when I realised: why does spam exist?

I mean, who actualy buys that stuff? Surely not enough to make it profitable. Or maybeI'm not counting for all the idiots or people new to technology.

Archaeopteryx; Sauropod with wings...

I was watching television a few mornings ago and got trapped by the terrible entrancing horror that is toddler tv. The show currently on involved a big elephant wearing a flowery hat teaching all the other animals about the world. todays lesson was dinosaurs.

Being a child-obsessive with dinosaurs myself i watched.

"Where did they go, Mother Mombali?"

"oh, Fred, their still here! You see, the dinosaurs eventually all evolved into birds! Thats right! Every time you see a bird it is actually a dinosaur!!!"

They weren't killed by a changing environment or meteorite impacts or a mega-volcano! They all grew wings and flew away! That cockatoo over there is simply an elusive sauropod!

The next worst extinction theory after that is off course that "Dinosaurs never existed! The fossils were put here by the Lord to tempt us humans into heretic thinking and to weed out the impure!"

u-huh. So you don't believe in Dinosaurs but you do believe in that big guy in the sky. Sure, why not?

the early archaepterex
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Humans amuse me

In my last post I mentioned that I am working on writing some sort of code that describes all human thought and action. I'm sure that no-one is interested, but do you think it's possible?

I don't mean some sort of artificial intelligence, but rather something that you could fill in situations, and be able to calculate peoples reactions to a certain degree of accuracy.

Do you think it's possible? Sure, if it existed then it would be enormously complicated, but can human action be described by a simple code?

I think it can, so long as you knew all the variables. What do you think?

Scivikk and Steven Hawking's ultimate guide to the universe

If you were to zoom in about 100 thousand times you could see me in a space ship flying away to safety in my personal spaceship/portable DVD player/spoon. If you were to also add an xray to your telescope you would see i am also flying away with a harem of exotic Belgium pole dancers and a professional Cakemaker. And a mutant rabid ladybird. And the English Rugby team, so i can watch them be savagely mauled by the mutant rabid ladybird.

i know your secret English Rugby team. you have captured Steven Hawking and made him construct some kind of Fate defier so you could beat us! But i'm coming!
I'll save you Steve!

Thing's that I haven't done these school holidays

1. Memorised EVERY hadron that exists (theres hundreds of the damned things!)
2. Gotten a haircut (I did it myself!)
3. Written code that explains human action and thought (I'm working on it!)
4. Signed on to Windows Live Messenger (I think I did once, but why would I?)
5. Fixed my computer for real (It's held together by spit and prayers)
6. Solved the P vs. NP problem (It's freaking difficult!)
7. Won a Nobel prize (How come Al Gore gets one and not me?)
8. Been moderated +5 Insightful on Slashdot (I haven't even posted a comment)
9. Successfully stopped myself from watching TV (but it's so tempting!)
10. Gained weight (I think I've lost weight!)
11. Gotten rid of my huge computer screen (I've fallen in love with it)
12. Fixed my iPod (It's held together by spit and prayers)
13. Fixed my network (It's held together by spit and prayers)
14. Re-enacted War of the Worlds with an army of monkeys (Although that would be awesome!)
15. Not left this room (Damned digestive system!)
16. Super secret message! Hahahaha! Love Scivikk. well not realy love, in a sexual way but u know what i mean. yeah........
    

$2 he never even sees this

If you were here and couldn't press the "next" button quick enough, you may have noticed that there are 3 bloggers listed on Scivikk and Sqityl's Fantascular Squares, even though there are only two listed on the title and only two of us ever post.
So you may ask, "Is there even a third member to the team"
The answer off course is i don't know. Zigbo has published 3 (Three) posts so far, an introductory post from when we let him join us and two more about kayaking (?!). He was in fact let onto the team on the bases that he could work out all the technical aspects of blogging, such as a counter. We do now have a counter, although this was installed Sqityl, with a few (absurd) suggestions from me over the shoulder.
I would probably simply kick Zigbo of Squares but chances are he might cry, then i will feel bad and get drunk, and then while i am drunk have a one night stand with a Vietnamese immigrant. And then off course nine months later.....
Plus Zigbo is a very good friend, so i have to be nice to him. i think.


I had a haircut today! i know where i could put those scissors!

Free the bacteria!

Antibiotics KILL!

Think of aLL the "harmless" bacteria killed by them, its a crime against microbial kind damnit!

I wonder what the punishment for crimes against microbial kind is...

A Study of my Life Right Now

I am currently sitting at the computer typing, writing my blog and chatting to my awesome friend Cat who is probably our only constant reader.
I am also eating some splendid chicken soup with a wonky bent spoon.
My "Senior Housmate" is reading a newspaper making an entire zoo of disgusting slurpee sounds with his soup that you could tape and then use it in the next alien movie.
I have just finished watching a friends video on utube that has 10 views and 1 star and features lots of darkness surrounding a small light that is basically all glare. That glare then excitingly turns into a bigger glare as it explodes and is then consumed by the darkness, like a Gothic persons curry when he (or she) flushes the toilet. Some how some of the magic of a balloon fool of deo exploding is lost on a persons phone video, especially as they seem to scratch them self with the phone whenever anything mildly exiting happens.
And now i'm pressing the submit button.
Analysis; all healthily depressing

PLUS i just completed a dedicated self portrait of me just then, which ill use for my profile. You can tell its me from the sunglasses, uber abs and the fact im riding a rocket, which is pretty cool.

Please...

...don't nuke the whales.

I'm sorry, I needed to write something about the environment and this is the best I could do on short notice.

I'm so building a dimensional flux agitator.

One day I hope to build a device that can transport me to any dimension, and I will use it to locate and travel to a dimension where everyone is always very nice to each other and no-one eats anything other than rice cakes.

Everyone would have kindness parties, and no-one would ever be mean. Kind of like star-trek except people wear normal clothes.

Plus, it never drops below 40C and nobody minds.

I would go and live there, and never come back.

Veteran

I have a $19.99 digital watch around my wrist that i have had for about 3 seasons and i wear with pride. It is so cheap that nobody else knows how to change the time on it or use the stop watch (that for some reason actually goes slower than normal time). But the best thing about my watch is its entertainment qualities. You can watch time go by ( Hahahahahaha), see how fast you can start then pause the stopwatch using only one button (my best is 0.09 seconds) and enjoy the beeping sound that it makes when ever you use the stop watch (which atually got me thrown out of an assembly once). BUT, to constant watch-snob reticule my watch is so cheap that it has holes for 4 buttons but only has 3 to press! there is just a filled in lump where any body else would have a button for their light or cigarette lighter or mobile phone or whatever the hell their fancy watches have. So if anybody asks i tell them its a war wound.
thats right Mofos! How many of your watches are VETERANS! HAHAHA.
Im need a new watch. and life.

Not quite a fakir.

It's the holidays now. So that means that since I'm not going outside (all those kids on the street scare me), I shall have to stay introverted, and not leave this room for any purpose, and spend my time memorising names of those forgotten hadrons.

Also, it will give me time to work on my plans.

I, am going to build a submarine out of... PAPER!
My plan is flawless, it has no faults... not even batman could stop me now!

MUHAHAHAHA!

Should I go outside more?

Chiral Colour.

Its a physics joke in the title, ignore it.

I am left handed, so that means that often my writing looks smudged because of my hand going over it. this does not bother me.

But you should see my hand! It's subtle, but it has a faint tinge of blue from all the ink it has rubbed over the years, and it won't wash out.

Personally, I think it's really cool.

Strolling Along

Perhaps some brilliant religious minds could conduct a theological explanation behind this picture and like whys with some atheist minds, but i would really like it if some one would notice that maybe there never is any meaning behind my pictures. they're just doodles, stupid.