Something So Right Is So Wrong…

Look at the picture. It's a ThinkPad running Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (I don't give a crap, I need a TCP/IP stack, and that's the best way I know of to get it, sosumi). Obviously, though, something is off about it, despite both brands being, I don't know… existent in 1993. Granted, I have it running in 86Box (PCem was too limiting and had not enough documentation when it worked), but it's still very much out-of-place, much like the fact that the actual laptop is named «Cow», but that's a different story that involves a copy of More Windows 98 for Dummies, as well as a few other books and medias. I also have a picture of this thing running Mac OS, which is just trippy, considering what it is, but that's beside the point. Where there's a will and some madness, there's a way. Granted, I don't say what I'm doing is particularly useful, but it's a neat party trick, no less, though this was mainly started by me wanting (and, at some points, needing) a visual for some of my writing. If it hasn't been stated, I go down rabbit holes all of the time! Now is no exception, it's just a quirk that takes several people, sometimes, to get me to come back to sensibility. There's usually a reason for that, though, but I'll probably never figure it out.

Being headstrong (or a hardass, to use a more colorful term) can result in some form of close-mindedness, though that's not always the case. It usually is. Granted, if you stand firm for what you believe in, you can achieve some pretty amazing things. That should go without saying, but, considering what I've seen from the young generation, I'm starting to have other opinions. Anyway, while I'd like to deny everything I've seen, I try to avoid living delusions. Still, I'd like to think that there's some form of hope, even through my cynical worldview. I've been able to get some steam going back on The Golden Record, thankfully, so that's where this little rant came from. In the story, while we learn that Seth isn't particularly assertive, he's somewhat headstrong, stands for what he believes in, and also follows results. Sorry if that isn't the usual way I go about bringing up these kinds of details, but some things there's no gradual way to go about them, and bringing up this topic is one of them. The title of this post, «Something So Right Is So Wrong…», it sums up what I like to believe a number of free thinkers are having to mentally fight when they don't go with the grain of what's commonly accepted. Sure, having boundaries can be a good thing, but at the same time, it's also good to step out of them and do some exploring, yourself, even if what your target is explored. There's eight billion people alive right now, so that's at least that many viewpoints.

For my third paragraph, I'm going to try and figure out exactly how to write something that makes sense while not running on more than half-a-pot of coffee while apparently talking about using kimchi jars from Walmart for drinking glasses (being one among many of the things I've been using them for). Think about being unapologetically yourself, in spite of the people who are probably thinking that you should have someone make sure you don't blow yourself up (or some other crazy excuse). When you take into consideration the actual size of our narrow slice and think about the proportion of our tiny speck in relation to that of the entire cosmos, thing start to begin to have answers and solutions, if only hypothetical ones, but still solutions, nonetheless. The questions and oddities that we as humans have, find, and ask all have answers, but they have to be searched for. I'm not saying that some advanced, space-faring alien civilization has the answer to why I have a 90s telephone on my desk, or have an interest to run ancient software on my stuff (those change by the hour, it seems like), but the larger questions, the ones that make you think about your own philosophy in life, those are the ones that need to be searched for, even if they remain unanswered. I know I've used space and the cosmos as a figure, but in reality, it's not just the physical aspect that we need to worry about, it's every aspect.