And now,

with my first post out of the way, I move on to something a little less vain.

I have recently discovered that my favorite hip-hip/rap album is probably Notorious B.I.G.'s "Ready to Die."

"I got techniques drippin' out my butt cheeks, sleep on my stomach so I don't f**k up my sheets"

That's a really interesting line in several ways. Specifically, it's an interesting rhyme scheme.

Occasionally I fall into spirals of dogmatic rambling. As such, take anything that I write with a grain of salt. Maybe a salt mine. Hypertension is a dangerous condition, though, so don't take too much at once.

Google labels many of its projects "Beta". Gmail is still in its "Beta" stage. That sort of modesty is admirable. Google isn't a company that claims its products are ready, only to leave testing to end-consumers, as opposed to alpha/beta-testers. Not only that, it is important to recognize that no project with utility value can ever be complete because there is no infallible mechanism for anything.

That's why thinking is such a beautiful thing. Thought isn't limited by the constraints of the real world. The real world entails infinitely more ideas than an intellectual world. Thought allows us to abstract that which we don't see relevant, only to leave what is relevant in a perfect state.

So think of yourself. Can you abstract to the point of perfection?

That abstraction is the heart of every single person (unless you think very highly of yourself).

(edit 25 July 2009: i don't actually mean these last two lines. they're more like something that i thought, and decided to write. i thought these two lines because i've been exposed to enough desperate thinking to sometimes recognize when i can lead myself to a desperate thought.)

That abstraction is as grotesque as it is beautiful.

(edit 25 July 2009: again, this line is only the product of my anticipation of desperation)

There is no content of interest on this blog.

It offers nothing new, nothing revolutionary.

Most everything on here is cliche and dull.