get this:


"Tim,
forgive me if i this is brief or slightly indignant but i already
wrote this and it was longer than you can imagine but i lost it all
and i don't think it was sent. someday we'll defeat the machines tim,
and our people will be free."


now that's the kind of humour i can really appreciate. quiet, understated... and yet hitting the spot.

its from the most recent email from Aaron... good to know you're still alive and getting high over there man :)

havent we all had that same experience? that feeling of Computer vs. Me? that sense that no matter how much we learn, how many computer courses we take, how many Anti-Virus programmes we run, we will always remain in the grip of the tyrannical machines? "Use me, for my yoke is enormous" said Technology, and we, Man, with our instinct to control and command, ironically obeyed, being sucked in by the first half while blithely ignoring the second.




(what a senseless bit of grandiose drivel. or is it?)




i feel so completely surrounded by fears and anxieties that i should be dead from asphyxiation. first and foremost amongst them all is the nagging sensation that somehow things shall go drastically wrong/bad/catastrophic and i'll lose me (you know what i mean. or i know what you mean) or that it's happening already. but i know paranoia, unfounded fear and senseless depression probably lies behind such morose thoughts. we all have our bouts don't we? and turbulent times create turbulent minds, it is oft said. (ok so its NEVER said. but i'll say it lots and lots, and then it WILL be oft said, won't it? after all it IS a good saying, doncha think?)


a yes that becomes a no
inadvertently causing woe
but you will never know