Doing and Being

I have been keeping pretty good track of my daily activities, as a pedantic experiment lately. I haven't come across anything startling lately, except for the fact that I do a lot of the same thing over and over again. Mostly involving sleeping, driving, keeping up with hygiene, reading blogs, eating, working and exercising with the random entertainment thrown in the middle of it. One thing that comes from cataloging my time is that I really start to appreciate how much time I spend at work. So am I my routine? Is that all the world has to show for my existence? My consumer transactions, my web hits, the work I release, the relatively small amount of social interaction that occurs between myself, my co-workers, my friends and loved ones. I guess its an important part of modesty to accept that that's all one is is the sum of one's actions and effects on the external environment. While dreaming I'm very important but reality is a lot simpler. Nothing happens unless you do something to it.

All hail the glorious R.U Sirius !

Nobody embodies the fusion of geek, hippie, extropian and cyberpunk cultures like the legendary R.U Sirius. He has a radio show which I'm a regular listener of over at Modo Globo.net. It covers such topics as interviews with cyberpunk novelists, the erotic world of 1920s Weimar Germany, The legacy of Charles Manson and anything weird fun and crazy you can think of.

What's different about being older?

Having been to a few birthdays recently I wanted to think about what it means to get older. How am I different than I was ten years ago. I think the biggest difference is I've settled into a routine. I like where I am and I don't really want to travel that much anymore. I find my career enjoyable, I don't want anything to change. Maybe it's just that I have more to lose psychologically from leaving my comfort zone. Then again I'm pretty spoiled. I find more and more that just collecting and cultivating the bits of creative youth still in me is very important.

The Book Of Laughter and Forgetting

Started reading The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting by Milan Kundera. It's a great book. I originally found out about it by reading a forum and somebody had a quote of his in the footer of their post : "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting". Used in context, a Czech dissident is explaining why he keeps a diary of the meetings between him and fellow dissidents.