… a different kind of weekend
Posted by lordpinoy on December 21, 2005
a few days ago, a friend told me her story about "another" friend who didn’t feel the Christmas spirit. Instead of persuading her "friend" to take a pause and feel the moment, she said, point-blank, "that’s because you don’t believe in Jesus". two days, and lots of meaningless graphs later i was still thinking about it.
rather than dwell on the moral and religious implications of not believing (and perhaps be overwhelmed by the sheer complexity/simplicity of the issue — ?!), i was beginning to think of several ways to spend my "christmas season" had i been living opposite the gates of a Christian heaven.
The nice thing about this year’s break is that they fall on a weekends Apparently someONE up there, the big G, perhaps, was thinking of those "not thinking of" HIM this year. ergo, he persuaded the angels who govern the laws of probability to institute a weekend break…. for neutrality.
here’s to my friend and her story of the "other friend"
The top 20 things i would do this weekend (Dec. 24-25) if i didn’t feel the Christmas spirit (and still feel OK after somebody tells me "that’s because you don’t believe in" that J fellow)
1. Hunt the Wumpus on an Alpha
2. Hand over Diablo’s, Mephisto’s, and Baal’s asses back to them in version 1.11b
3. add excessive entropy (furthering the heat death of the universe), by watching movies on DVD
4. Discover my cosmic purpose in this planet (as my "other" friend puts it)
5. Achieve 30 or more GigaFlops on a 16-node computer cluster I have assembled@CSRC codenamed datu
6. Buy original software…. to avoid a breakdown in the "system" …. for the industry
7. do another latin session
8. overclock my PC and try convincing the other lab to spare me a bucket of liquid nitrogen for cooling. How does it work? === that’s what makes it exciting, i don’t know!
9. find out what happened to a bunch of 80s characters, artists, and other icons of that bygone era
10. read TIME magazine — in some parts of the world, it’s still cool to read TIME.
11. solve my solid state physics problem sets.
12. sleep all day.
13. increase my Klingon kills statistics.
14. free up loads of hard drive space.
15. produce the next set of meaningless graphs for my research.
16. indulge in guilty pleasures.
17. get down to reading paradise lost and render it in prose.
18. bring a 15 year career to a close.
19. wonder where things went wrong and why it got out of hand.
20. grow a hopeless, depleted toenail.
