topherchris is an internet enthusiast

There are a ton of lizards outside. I watched them as they enjoyed the warmth of the sunlight. There was a big dude doing his neck-inflation trick. The ladies seemed to be loving it, but they weren’t putting out.

I’m going to build them a lizard-sized bar, motel room, and jail so they can better relate to the human experience.

Of course it’d be Malcolm Gladwell who provides the best summary of Daniel Gilbert’s ideas and corresponding book.

Stumbling on Happiness is a book about a very simple but powerful idea. What distinguishes us as human beings from other animals is our ability to predict the future—or rather, our interest in predicting the future. We spend a great deal of our waking life imagining what it would be like to be this way or that way, or to do this or that, or taste or buy or experience some state or feeling or thing. We do that for good reasons: it is what allows us to shape our life. And it is by trying to exert some control over our futures that we attempt to be happy. But by any objective measure, we are really bad at that predictive function. We’re terrible at knowing how we will feel a day or a month or year from now, and even worse at knowing what will and will not bring us that cherished happiness. Gilbert sets out to figure what that’s so: why we are so terrible at something that would seem to be so extraordinarily important?

The Jesus and Mary Chain __ Just Like Honey

Thom Yorke __ Black Swan

This was a submission to one of my anonymous-posting-thingy sites a while back. I just came across it again and it’s interesting to realize that what bothered me back then now just makes me laugh like a Japanese schoolgirl.

With no offense to evangelicals or Vista users

I’m watching Jesus Camp for the second time, but I didn’t remember the scene where Pastor Becky Fischer blesses the computers, projection equipment, microphones, and Microsoft PowerPoint to not succumb to the Devil’s will and malfunction.

This makes me wonder about the Tech Support industry in some pockets of the country. Are Geek Squad technicians told to blame Satan and not “Vista sucks” when problems inevitably arise? There’s a marketing angle here for Microsoft (or any other company) if they want to shirk responsibility for defective products.

For the more visual amongst you, here’s an unedited clip of the scene I’m talking about.

Two new projects from me today.

1. OBAMA PORN
2. OBAMA FACTS

The Evolution Control Committee _ The Fucking Moon

Tom Cruise made a site as a thank you, to you and I, for sharing the journey with him and to invite us to continue to explore what the future will bring to Tom Cruise.

Thank you Tom Cruise.