I went and saw the Dark Knight last night. The movie was quite enjoyable and many social issues were present in the themes of the story. The villain in the movie is a character called the Joker, who prides himself on having no rules and presents himself as a animal motivated by instinct, he just does what he does, supposedly with no plan. There is a scene where he is slightly apologetic to Harvey Dent, sayin ghe had no plans for things to end up the way they did. That the police, and bruce wayne, they all have plans even the mobsters have plans. He on the other had subscribes to chaos and in turn anarchy, because as he says at least in chaos everyone has an equal chance. This is an interesting theory, and the control of our lives that is shown in the movie is ripped apart by the joker as he starts threatening death at random. Random death is scary enough to people to make them think about chaos in substitute for the controlled paced life we tend to live here in the U.S.
The quest for anarchy is one quite interesting and common in human history. William McKinley the 25th president of the United States was shot and killed by a man who claimed a speech by the anarchist Emma Goldman motivated him. The problem with the assassinations by anarchists was that they weren't progressive enough. They were still preoccupied by the idea that hierarchy and government are the methods of control, little did they realize that companies that produce the goods and services we depend upon are the true controllers of society. True chaos and anarchy would come from people having to subsist upon their own talents and ingenuity, rather then being the dependent consumers of today. If Leon Czolgosz had any foresight he would have shot Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie or Vanderbilt. Nope instead he shot a fat president who now has schools across the country named for him. Rockefeller is the catalyst of the oil explosion in this country, he helped push the need for fuel by supplying it like opium to our ever consuming lives. Standard Oil was his company, they were forced to break up under the Sherman Antitrust act, but eventually morphed into the company known today as Exxon. Strange that Exxon is one of the most profitable companies in the world. I wonder if an anarchist could have changed that, or if companies are similar to military regimes in that if you cut off the head there is always some other head ready to take the place of the fallen leader.
Good job at inspiring thinking Dark Night, you entertain and inspire.

new news, news day, noose day

I am turning twenty four this day. I have almost reached a quarter century, I mourn for the death of the pay phone and the InBev purchase of anhiZer bush. In the past few month I have been holding at bay my need to sunscreen the top of my head with rogaine, it has been slightly successful. balding feels like an adult version of standing against the wall and with a pencil marking the growth. Here it is growth of my forehead, I wonder what sort of increments it slowly develops at and if possibly I could measure each monthly increment and create an abstract electronic song based upon algorithms of numbers connected to the loss of hair. Rogaine is much cheaper then I would have imagine at 38 dollars for a 3 month supply that I bought in march and am only 2/3 done with.
I have started a second serving job during the daytime, it fills up my weekend hours nicely but hampers my connection to those people who live on a weekday schedule. One night I couldn't fall asleep and discussed internally what it is about this new establishment that I feel is lacking. This is my manifesto of restaurants as I have experienced it. The kitchen is the brain of the restaurant, it's layout is extremely important it needs flow and pathways and stations set up to complement and encourage each other. My new job has a kitchen that feel clustered and tumor ridden, no flow and cramped like an atomic wedgie. This brain is in need of a little reconstruction, but I dare not say anything, it is new and will possibly seizure itself into normality. The money is nice, but has a strange effect. I have started thinking past my parental debt of college tuition into hobbies and travel. Or on the more long term side of stocks as I am secretly fascinated by the sotck market and it's gimmicky flash bang graphics. I have followed FPL since I took my first environmental science class at SCSU an became hooked on the promise of wind energy, if I had invested then I could have just slightly more then I do now, if I worried about having more though I might end up giving a mouse a cookie. But I push on... funny how seizure of the brain is spelled the same as seizure of property. I would like to hear at a eulogy that God foreclosed on his soul, a hostile takeover with a lowballing bid.
bikes and travel, I have been dreaming as of late of argentina and a disc break commuter with panniers, I salivate at the thought of both.

Ode to Passenger Pigeons

This is a rap song I wrote about the passenger pigeons

This is not a joke (quick break into next verse almost starting immediately after joke)
Standard 4/4 rythem intro
Suckers we murdered all of them they
thought they could live in our world but we took it away

lyrics will come later, this is the hook just for show.


chorus
cincinati ohio this is how the story goes
overheard by the earth shot a bird
for the meat it's worth then was served
to the slaves and the protien it gave
probably saved keep out of graves
up to five billion gone
and this is whyyy
I sing this song

Driving to the poor house

Driving isn't cheap anymore, but something might make it cheaper. Most notably your driving habits, including but not limited to your millage, acceleration and deceleration habits, time of day that you drive your car, and other scary information that can be taken by the magical black box stored in your vehicle. Big Brother is probably hoping you buy it.

Personally I'm in, I think people who drive with a lead foot accelerating and breaking need a swift kick in the butt, not only because they decrease the MPG but also cause it is dangerous for those on the street no driving I.E biking. Well here in the state of Minnesota, Progressive Insurance is offering a trial Pay as you drive system. Now the comments on the blog I hyper linked show the paranoia that many have with these new technologies. I on the other hand think it is great.

Having recently chatted about the plausibility of living car free for the duration of my stay here on earth. For long distances, for people transporting children, it isn't a fun life to live car free. But if you can pay very little for gas with high efficiency cars, or very little for insurance because of the extremely low distance you drive or how little you speed when driving. The rest of the time you can bike and still not get charged the same price as your regular drivers for insurance, then heck I'm all for it. I will give up the freedom of where and when I travel in the insured car to the insurance company. It's npt suprizing that abroad is getting the jump on this, as the U.S. is fairly car centric and highly resistant to changes like this. But hear my cry now, those who fail to the the benefit will rue the day.