When I was a kid I grew up with the promise of a glorious space age future, but all I got was global warming, Windows updates and people blabbering on cell phones everywhere I go.
Where are the Aliens, cool Babes in shiny-silvery tight outfits, space travel and pills for and against anything?!
I am still deeply disappointed about this Future of ours.
Can we please change that?
It’s a sad affair: apart from my belly everything else seems to be shrinking with age. That’s unfair!
Now that I have hardly learned how to handle myself and the ladies it all seems to waste away?!
Nature is cruel.
I consider London my second home – and I haven’t been there in a while. There no place like this amazing city in this planet. It’s the most international city full of art, culture and history.
My kind of place.
And I am curious how much it has changed in the last five years. I hear many troublesome stories that London has finally transformed into a Islamic enclave and I am not too keen about that – if it’s true.
And I want to see the city before either Boris Johnson or the Olympic Games wreck it.
I spent 2008 most of my time driving my business and personal affairs forward (like finding a new flat). Now that have a nice place I can "afford" some time and space for my spiritual advancement (or faked holiness).
All these new phones are all a disappointment: iPhone 3G, Blackberry Storm and Android – and many others as well. They all are overpriced and have at least one serious no-go flaw.
And the price plans of most (German) carriers are more or less robbery.
So gimme better phones and price plans – and I might buy one of these bloody contraptions to replace my brilliant yet humble Motorola F3.
2008 was good for business – although most projects and most clients were incredibly boring.
Maybe the web business has lost it’s spark – and is just an industry like any other? Maybe my personal excitement about the information age has come to an end – or it’s simple become mainstream and is therefore boring?
Thanks to those incompetent politicians and greedy bankers we face a financially catastrophic 2009. Therefore I want to be rich.
But who doesn’t?!
If I can’t be rich, than I want to see some of the bankers and politicians go to jail. But that whish is less realistic than hoping to win the lottery the next 52 weeks …
It is amazing and embarrassing how many people still wage stupid wars or fight for the "national interest". On one shared planet there can only be ONE interest – that of humanity itself.
I am still not sure, if we can call ourselves an intelligent life form, since we are so busy killing ourselves (which seems natural: since under social pressure and overpopulation other species also kill each other) and destroying our own environment …
America still is the biggest Hyperpower, but thanks to Dick and George it has lost most of it’s international gravitas. I expect Obama to be very busy trying to fix the biggest problems without really changing much in his first year in office.
I just hope that he won’t punished for his visions and attitude like Jimmy Carter was. Remember: President Carter installed a Solar Panel on the White House – and el Doofus Ronald Reagan had it removed.
Change is needed – now more then thirty years ago.
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China is loosing arable land and clean drinking water at an alarming rate. Their pollution is adding huge amounts of dirt and green house gases to the global community. China must act – as well as the US and the Europeans.
But most of all it should start treating it’s citizens not like dirt anymore.
Be gone Satan and all your damn cronies as well.
Why do so many "just" revolutionaries turn into tyrannical old bastards?
I am sick and tired of this woman – and her followers. Her lack of almost anything – apart from an overactive vagina and mouth – belittles American greatness.
Even Rednecks deserve better!
No, it’s not my new office. This is just a painful design accident. All these organic designs have almost all disappeared by now. Round shapes are mostly useless and very unpractical in a square world.
And plastic is such an ugly material for daily use and work on. Wooden desks at least suck away your sweat and age beautifully. But I am sure that plastic monstrosity above was a great mouse pad – even before mice were invented.
*Thanks to Edosan for giving me eye cancer*
Sorry, I completely missed the world’s biggest consumerist festival. I never much liked "Weihnachten" (which is celebrated on the 24th here in Germany) – not even as a kid.
I haven’t celebrated the last 15 years (at least), don’t buy any presents (apart from bribes for clients) and don’t feel very "christmessy" anyway.
But that doesn’t mean we can’t be nice to each other – each day of the year.
Happy Xmas – no – happiness, good health and inspiration to you for everyday of your future!
The attack was certainly spectacular – but not the biggest slaughter so far. India has a very nasty history of mutual slaughters between Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims.
But since India is now a big player in the world and people pay more attention to it we get better coverage of such events.
And thanks to the "War on Terror" any attack that can be somehow linked to al-Qaeda gets a massive boost from America.
It is amazing that there still is so much conformity in our modern societies.
Although we have in our western societies the highest degree of personal and spiritual freedom, most people seem "to buy their minds" from the same vendors?
But thinking, building character and even solid opinions seem a luxury these days. Sure – it all costs time and most people rather "spend" theirs on entertaining themselves.
The mass media also is too blame, but not as you might think. Especially in Europe the state owned channels were always on a mission to educate the masses. They always tried to instill variety and complexity into these heads.
But TV has an inherent systematic flaw: it repeats itself and the currently accepted "group think" again and again. So even when they show variety the most repeated version of reality will be accepted as the "best" one.
Societies have always been driven my mental, moral, religious and scientific consensus, but today’s consumerist attitude provides very poor soil for the brilliance of the human mind.
Which is such a shame – since we live in a day and age where we so many people could easily create and share great mental fireworks …
Sometimes street art combines common knowledge and emotional moments into one great package.
Almost to the hour one week ago my struggle with this years influence virus started. First I didn’t feel sick at all. I had appointments all day, some work and I was travelling. Just when I came home I felt a bit exhausted and decided to take an anti-cold-bath. You know, the ones with the nice eucalyptus oils and vapors.
A few minutes later I had serious doubts I would get out of my bath tub.
The following days I was mostly sleeping and shaking. The sort of shakes and moves that are usually reserved for people with malaria in really old and cheesy WWII movies. I have to apologize to all the actors I have ridiculed for their “sick” performances. They were spot on – I too was making weird and silly noises throwing my head around in a soaked shirt. And I was not even fighting to defend the British Empire from any invaders …
My stomach taught me the original meaning of the old and wise idiom “Where is all that shit coming from?” and kept me on a constant marathon between my bed and my bathroom for the better of four days and very long nights.
Finally that pesky virus got weaker, I got some real sleep and feel less like dying. And I had my first kinda meal today: half a Knackwurst and mashed potatoes. I feel like a winner.
To be honest: this case of influence scared almost anything and everything out of me. I was very close calling the ambulance and getting myself hospitalized for good. But I never felt so exhausted and damaged after a “simple” flu like this one.
This time I killed the virus, but I am really afraid his next of kin might be even nastier next time.