Jon Furniss

What shape is Oregon?

365 Tomorrows is this awesome site filled with sci fi flash fiction stories, one each day since August ‘05, and most of them are really good. Go check it out if you like science fiction or if you just like stories. It makes me want to start reading classic science fiction again, Bradbury and Asimov here I come!

“it’s a tent… it’s a bouncy castle… it’s a swing… it’s a trampoline!” It’s a Treepee!

Do you like Japanese inventions? Do you like robots? Do you like being lazy? Then ApriPoko is for you!

And then a story about a blimp and some angry internal dwarves.

Enjoy!

Via eD! = Awesome:

Today, I am extremely disoriented.

I have this hovering feeling of confusion, and I have no idea what’s going on.

First:

I dare you to be more cheerful than that picture, I dare you!

But mainly:

I know, it’s awesome, be jealous.

Just a follow up on the article I linked the other day about the gamer and his Xbox.

Check it out:

http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/22/even-happier-ending-for-cleaned-xbox-360-owner-gates-signed-c/

My life is kind of crazy right now, so sorry that I haven’t been updating.

I’ll do that sometime in the future, I promise.

I’m currently somewhere between AIM conversations, text messaging, Starcraft, reading Jumper (quite excellent, definitely a better story than the movie), and studying for economics, from the pages on International Trade printed out from Wikipedia.

My nose is all stuffed up, but I could not be happier with my life.

Well, I mean, I could be, but I am.

You know?

Why does music taste so much better when it was free?

I don’t know, it just does.

Also, Scrubs is amazing. I am JD. And I need a more constistent Dr. Cox in my life. So who wants to call me a girls name and give me speeches?
I should probably trip and daydream more. I do like daydreaming, and having a strange inner monologue (strangely in the voice of Zach Braff) in my head. Ah, staring off into space while I type and voice offer this entire blog entry in my mind.

No, I’m not creepy.

I haven’t been sick in a little while. I guess my body decided it was bored or something. So it somehow decided that it was a good idea to go out and acquire the kick ass sore throat I am now sporting. I am thoroughly enjoying the almost total lack of a voice, and scratchyness up and down my entire throat. Whoo, go health.

That is all.

There comes a time in every man’s life where he has to say that there come’s a time in every man’s life.

This is not one of those times.

I don’t know if I have ever had one of those times. I don’t know if I know humanity well enough, or that I ever will feel secure enough to represent every man (and I use the word “man” in the general mankindy, man, woman, child, hermaphrodite, eunuch type of sense) who has had a life. So I probably just won’t.

On a completely different note, last month I had the goal to meditate for 15 minutes each day. This, like pretty much everything else, I failed miserably, but when I actually did it, I felt great, and it was nice and all. I just don’t really have the self-disipline to get myself doing this. In high school, however, in my theatre class, we did some yoga, and guided imagery and such, and that was always backed up by some pretty awesome/relaxing music and such, which was a huge help in the meditation and mind-easing process. I had, of course, pretty much forgotten about that and left it in the back of my mind when I had started trying to do my meditation last month. Then in my Organizational Behaviors class we spent a couple of classes talking about stress, and my professor had us do some relaxation and guided imagery with that amazingly relaxing music again, and it was heavenly.

Then, a little bit ago, to make things just work out perfectly, I got a comment from Chris Hughes over at Meditation DNA, who set me up to try out some of their relaxation music. And it’s awesome. I think that this will definitely help me out with any meditation attempts I make in the future (which will absolutely be sooner, and more frequent, now that I’ve got this). They’ve got all kinds of different audio meditation tracks each about twenty minutes long. You can sort them by focus (which ranges from insight to sexuality to wealth), by brain wave, by vocal type, by Chakra, and by Qi element. They also have a whole bunch of information on meditation in general, ranging from stuff for beginners, to information to long-time meditators. If you’ve ever wanted to meditate, or you have meditated, or you want to get rid of some stress and annoyance from your life, this will definitely help. Just sitting here on the computer listening to it, is completely relaxing me.

It’s way awesome, so definitely check it out.

It’s not completely sunny out, but it’s bright, and I think that counts for something. I like the Spring a lot, it’s a good season. It’s pretty, and bird chirping, and flowery.

So check out this article: Bungie Unscrews Previously Screwed Gamer. I found this while stumbling until like 2:30 in the morning last night, and it made me happy, and wish something bad would happen to me and then someone would notice and make it ten times better. It’s like a modern tale of Job, except that his whole family didn’t get killed just because God didn’t want to lose a bet. But the real reason I’m linking it is because, first of all, I love Halo, and I should definitely play more, secondly it gives me a little faith in humanity and reminds me that despite all the death, destruction, screwing over, heartlessness, and overall shittiness that seems to plague the world, there are good people out there who actually do give a shit, and show it. I also want to show the dangers of sending things out to be repaired, or replaced or, well anything. Things like this happen at my job all the time, we’ll send stuff out to our service center, and something will just get more screwed up, or ruined, or something like that. I think the problem lies with any individual service center, where things have to be sent out and there is no customer interaction. It’s a lot easier for a technician to do a crappy job or wash someones customized autographed Xbox 360 when they know that they will never have to deal with that customer. When we do repairs in the store at work, we have to interact directly with the customer and let them know if anything gets messed up or changed or destroyed. We also have to do that for anything that our service center fucks up. So, caveat emptor, you always have to be careful when you let other people touch your stuff!

Yeah, that’s the lesson for today.

Also, I’m planning to go to ConnectiCon 2008, so if anyone wants to hit that up with me, let me know, and I’ll see about getting a group together. Good times will be had by all.

Yesterday my manager and I had a discussion on whether or not I could technically say “I’m going to work” when I don’t really do any work. So we decided that I’d have to say I’m going to my job, or my place of employment. So it’s time to get dressed and pack my lunch and head off to my place of employment.