And the world keeps spinning.
Nope, I haven’t fallen off yet. Woke up at 11pm, though, feel sleep deprived – don’t think I’ve gotten a decent bit of REM in days. But no rest for the weary.. have to pull the battery pack in the EV, it’s gotten unbalanced.. damn it, must work harder on regs. Slacked all morning. And talked to a good friend for several hours.
Sancho, my armor seems to have a few more holes in it every day.
When I was a kid (15? 16? I don’t remember exactly when) I figured out that the human race, or at least the american slice of it, is fundamentally fucked up when it comes to sex.
It first of all doesn’t help that males appear to have about eight times the sex drive females do, as a general rule of thumb. [Now how’s _that_ for a design bug? Yeah, that really proves a intelligent god has our best interests at heart, now doesn’t it?]. Yes, there are exceptions, but generally..
It second of all doesn’t help that we’re not supposed to talk about sex. At any rate, this is always the impression my parents have foisted off on me. If you’re a child, you’re supposed to think the thought of your parents being romantically involved is disguisting – and if you’re a parent, you certainly don’t want to know that your child just lost his or her virginity at seventeen. Hrm, this is a great setup, now isn’t it. Can’t talk about it..
It gets better. Heinlien spent a lot of his writing stabbing in the dark, trying to figure out what was going on with human sexuality. I think he missed the target a lot, but I’m impressed that he was trying. Other fans seem to write this off as him being a ‘dirty old man’. Well, he made you fucking think, didn’t he? Beats the hell out of your average TV show! Even if you thought ‘ewww’ [and one thing you might ask yourself is WHY you thought ewww] you at least were thinking.
What’s the one thing that makes heinlien’s sexual utopias impossible? Jealousy. You all know it’s there. You all also know it’s not particularly useful. Jealousy makes sense when there is no birth control, at least if you apply the ‘mother of my immortality’ thoughts [Think about it for a minute]. But does jealousy make sense otherwise?
I don’t know. It’s all too confusing for me. I’ll reattack this thread later. [I love the fact that I don’t in fact have to make sense in this thing. I hope they don’t delete my entire journal someday because they don’t like my thoughts. Or, worse, sic the FBI on me. 😉
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In other subjects, I can record and play audio from a dataflash – little side project I did for Bruce. [Who, I suspect, could have done it better than I did.. the actual code took two hours, the electrical debugging took me two _days_. Let’s face it, I’m a failure as a engineer].
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In still other subjects, watched a simpsons episode tonight that spent several minutes bagging on Ed Bagly jr and electric vehicles. This is real fucking encouraging, now isn’t it.. 😉
I wish the actual EV were more impressive. Roy keeps getting after me to clean it up and make it pretty – but it seems to me it’s more productive, in a helping-the-human-race sort of way, to build the perfect battery management system.
Have a killer headache. This lack of sleep stuff is going to drive me crazy. What time zone am I in?
S.