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Thursday, November 28, 2002

The Geekery Thanks Itself -- Chris || Post in the forum

Don't get me wrong, I haven't been too active around these parts of the interweb for quite a while now, but I must say, this site pretty much takes care of itself with little hassle from me to keep it going. Such things like the nice little email service that it offers to more than one-hundred people for free, as well as the forum with about 600 members, again all for free.

Even though I have those two cool and nifty features just lying around at my disposal doesn't mean that I don't have to write anything "entertaining" for you people to read, or at least attempt to read. Again, this entertainment has to be free since I really doubt that anyone in their right mind would actually want to pay to read this crap anyway. Though, I must admit, it would be rather cool for me to be able to stop working if I got enough money from this, which means that I would be able to write even more of this crap and get paid even more since I write more. But that will never happen, so on with the show.

"Americans know why turkeys make this holiday great"

As many Americans know, today is the last Thursday in November, and even less (I say 'even less' because a lot of people in American don't even know where Iraq is if you gave them a map with the countries labeled simply because they cannot read, so how do you expect them to know what the last Thursday in November means?) Americans know that the last Thursday in November always means that it's time for Thanksgiving, which, much to my surprise, is a time to give thanks for all the things we have.

Yea, I know. It's very hard for many people to actually say "thank you" for things that they get from other people. You know, like money and stuff like that. I've never been too good at it myself, and I thought that I would take a few minutes, uh... few paragraphs to tell you what I'm thankful for, and not the other way around. After all, why would anyone care what you're thankful for?

Stupid things that Chris is thankful for

1. The Internet
Obviously I'm a big fan of this new thing called "the internet". Where would I be without it today? Well, I know where I would be without it. I'd be sitting here right now not doing anything but playing solitaire on my computer because I wouldn't really have anything else better to do with all this free time on my hands. The internet (such as this site) gives me a place where I can write things that don't make sense and people will actually not read them, as opposed to writing things with pencil and paper (or pen and paper) and people not reading what I have written. The only difference is that I'm not using pencil and paper to write what you are reading now. The internet also serves as a place for my entertainment for days at a time. Where else can you find death threats amusing? Where else can you find the fact that people are generally funny amusing? The only place that I know of is the internet. You wouldn't be laughing too much if some stranger walked up to you out of no where on the streets and told you, "I hope you and your family die!". However, on the internet you never know when you're dealing with a die-hard Nazi or a 12-year-old kid who is using his mother's AOL account to email you with complete crap and will never find out where you really live.

2. People
As strange as it may sound, I'm very thankful to have other people to talk to and to look at. I mean, without other people I think I would go crazy and start talking to myself like Tom Hanks did in Cast Away. Not only do people help me not go crazy, they also serve as a source of amusement during my day. In general, most people are stupid, and for some odd reason I think the stupid things that stupid people do are funny. I especially find two people beating each other up over a pair of shoes to be ridiculously funny due to the fact that there are some complete morons out there that will spend well over 120 dollars on a pair or shoes (or boots) and then get mad when they get dirt on them, or someone steps on them. Heck, they would fight God if they could see him. After all, he's the one that caused the rain that made the mud which went on their boots.

3. Sleep
Just think of all the poor little girls and boys in the world who are too poor to have sleep. Some get only 3 or 4 hours of sleep a night, some get literally next to no hours of sleep a night, and here I am complaining that 6 or 7 hours of sleep isn't enough to get me through the day. I really should be thankful for this, seeing as everyone needs it to survive, and not everyone has it. However, being thankful for sleep is like being thankful for air. Everyone has it, and it's actually free, unlike water and other natural resources that probably should be free, it's a choice to some people whether or not they want to use what they have. You can easily choose not to berate, but eventually you're going to take a breathe because you cannot kill yourself by simply not wanting to breathe, your body won't let you. However, if you take a plastic bag and put that over your head, that is a different story.

After tonight, the festivle of light begins!

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