With all the media (read: books, music, internet, movies, tv) that I find my consuming on a daily basis I have decided to start keeping record of how my mind is interacting with all of these inputs. So now you the reader will be subjected to my run-on sentences and mindless mumblings in completely rough form.
Essentially I am now going to attempt to create a sorts of Input/Output documentation through this blog and let the public eye examine, destruct, construct, and consume my thoughts.
Let's start off by saying for the longest time I thought my trackpad was broken... Yeah, I was about one day away from utilizing my mac protection plan and heading in to claim a funked up trackpad. Well, as a last ditch effort I googled my issue for the third time in a week. Thanks to the guys at macrumors I was able to read a little bit closer and finally understand all the options I clicked "yes" for on my preferences. Apparently 'three finger drag' was activated. Crisis averted.
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| Lesson learned... Understand what you say yes to. At least it wasn't a virus. |
Today on reddit I was mostly intrigued by the r/MensRights community as well as the r/egalitarianism community. Working within church environments has given me some great opportunities to see first hand people's opinions. I've grown up on one side of the coin where the belief was that women do not belong in leadership roles as well as the side that everyone should have the opportunity. So there's a couple articles I read like the interestingly titled "The Scarlet Manifesto: The Rise of the Adulterous Woman" which covered some interesting trends between men and women within marriage infidelity. I also read half an article which covers what seems to me almost every popular opinion/counter-opinion on men's issues. It's good, but it is long and fairly basic. (more of an outline than anything).
I also helped a guy out on reddit on how to consume his music media best via headphones. By giving him a small opinion of my Shure SH240. My opinion? They sound amazing and are great for reference audio in video and sound editing. They get uncomfortable after a couple hours of use and have to be modded. If you are in the market for a decently priced (<$150) pair of cans I recommend 'em. Just make sure you add some padding to the headband.
Speaking of music, I was recommended to check Wye Oak out...
her vocals are mildly reminiscent of Dave Matthews to me. Should that be considered an insult?
According to the comments they were heard on the Walking Dead.
I also played a crap-tonne of Borderlands 2 today.... Something I'm not entirely sure that I should be proud of. I'm not in high school anymore so it definitely can't be considered an accomplishment. I made it to level 20 and attempted to rescue my ally Mordecai's pet bird from the stories antagonist (Handsome Jack) but Handsome Jack killed the bird and then Mordecai got mad but since Handsome Jack was on what is essentially an untouchable moon base Mordecai could only shoot a whole bunch of Handsome Jack's robots. Yeah... cool huh... Anyway that's like 3% of the story and I have to say that I'm really getting into this one. So far we've had our robot guide "Angel" double cross us, the bird incident and the rescue of the rebel forces captain. I'm also fairly certain I had one of those Avatar moments where Sully rides the crazy hawk-beast after I killed Handsome Jack's personal bodyguard robot "Wilhelm". The whole time I was fighting it I had my rebel allies on the radio saying, "He's too powerful for any of us! There's no way you can do it!"
I'd give you a screenshot but I'm running it through a mac... (hint: it's not designed to be run through a mac) So just trust me when I say I have a really awesome pistol that shoot exploding bullets.
So what have I learned today? What is the common theme? I dunno... I guess I see women a lot. Wye Oaks has a woman singer, women are being talked about a lot, well that's two points but whatever I wasted too much time on Borderlands 2 to make myself think a lot. I think the general idea today is to just continuously research and ingest new ideas into my head. I'm trying to open myself up to new areas of exploratory practice and I'm really truly trying to avoid the nonsensical posting of reddit (r/aww r/funny r/WTF) y'know the stuff that puts me on the same level as a mindless infomercial watcher (which I totally did as a child)
Anyway to finish things off tonight I recommend checking out some more Wye Oak
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