Archive for 2006

I think Facebook is the most depressing thing to happen to the world.

Everyone who uses Facebook will be familiar with the concept of Facebook friends, which I will call faciends in this entry (Feel free to use faciends openly in you day to day conversations). I have 97 faciends. I know, I know, some of you have 698 (Pradeepan), but bare with me. Of the 97 reported faciends of Adam, about 20 are still in my life outside of the Facebook world. Faciends represent about 1 in 7 (just a guess) of the people that I have been friends with in my life (Side note: that means that Pradeepan currently has more faciends than I have had friends). That means for every faciend I see in my list there are 6 friends I do not.

Don’t be misled…I love using Facebook to keep up with as many friends as possible, but do I really need that kind of daily reminder? How hard should we fight to maintain forgotten relationships? How hard should we fight to develop new ones? How many “close” friends make being “close” impossible? How few friends make someone feel lonely?

So the map of internet ownership was a little confusing, so I found a more concrete definition:

“Verizon Communications owns about 81% of all fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) subscribers in the United States, according to a report released today from Ovum-RHK.” (read more)

I can’t wait for them to start charging for usage…like $0.10 per email kinda thing…that’ll be cool.

There’s been a lot of talk concerning Global Warming recently so I decided to research the subject.  I have made the following observation:

NOTE: The graph could be redrawn with the horrific decrease in number of Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbits.

There’s no such thing as evolution…just a list of animals that Chuck Norris allows to live.

For some time now I have been doing some soul searching.  It hurts, and though I will continue that search, I feel as though I found something:

Men seek many things.  We seek to glean for ourselves what little we can from this crappy life, to make as easy a life for ourselves as possible.  We lie, steal, and cheat our way towards our selfish ambitions, but some men…

“Some men come to restore.” (Madea’s Family Reunion)  A powerful and life changing statement.  It is not a statement of arrogance, but of purpose.  It is not a cliche, but a challenge.  It is not who I am, but it is at the core of who I long to be.

To be a man who, overwhelmed by God’s ever deepening love for me despite my imperfections, finds my self-seeking nature overthrown by love for my fellow man.  To love unconditionally, to forgive implicitly, and to seek the restoration of mankind to God The Father.

This morning, just after posting my last post, while reading an article on the devil, listening to a song saying, “everybody’s gonna die today,” I noticed the date…6/6/06…”dun dun dunnn”. And to top it all off, a guy in my office said, “dun dun dunnn” moments after I typed it.

For those of you who place spiritual significance on this date…don’t.

By the way, I’m moving out of my apartment this week.

Drive a bus the summer I will not.  Decided to stay in Tulsa I have.  Stop watching Star Wars before bed I must.

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“Many hands make light work,” or so the saying goes. And if the saying holds true then China is going to win.

So they just announced the AI winner…Taylor Hicks, who rejoiced, the crowds went wild…and a special guest David Hasselhoff cried?  Anybody else catch that shot?  And what’s with “Best Male Bonding” award?  I tell you what, it’s moments like these that I’m proud to be American…and when the homecoming king and queen are crowned…and the Oscars, the Emmys, etc…and when Dino dedicated his last song at a gathering of pastors from all over the world to, “America, the greatest nation on earth!”…I was there…it was defining moment in my life.

Time since first post:
583 days (1 year, 7 months, 6 days) (1 post every 32 days)

Blogs in 2004:
3 (17% of total blogs) (1 post every 121 days)

Blogs in 2005:
4 (22% of total blogs) (1 post every 92 days)

Blogs in 2006:
11 (61% of total blogs) (1 post every 11 days)

Blogs in 2026*
798,277 (43% of 1,862,631 total blogs) (1 post every 40 seconds…which is possible)

*please note that figures for 2026 may vary due to unforeseen circumstances such as rapture, the acquisition of a life, or excessive buildup of dirt on that little ball in the mouse that makes it kinda stick…gah, I hate that! A more realistic figure would probably be about 10.