mundhra's journal: fear - edited

this is something i jotted down about a nightmare i used to have. i didn't mean for it to be anything fancy, just a description of what went on. i should probably revise it sometime. i'd like a response, whether it be laughter or sympathy.

by mundhra 2002-05-21 16:48:00 | 473 reads | 1 comment

mundhra's journal: obsolescence

sometimes i just don't know what to do. see, the first computer i owned was a upper-mid level 486-25sx with 4mb of ram and a 210 mb hard drive. meeping spiffy, i know. but i didn't come here to gloat. anyway, i think i'll be saying goodbye to it soon, as i already pilfered any fans, useful screws and jumpers from it. it was a packard bell piece of meep, but i'll still miss it. however, my main reason for writing this journal entry is about storage. i have various hard drives in various piddly sizes. i just picked up a 5.25 211 mb hard drive at work, maybe to use it for this. but i don't know. i don't have a problem pitching a 486, as i have a few low-end pentiums around. but i remember the days of installing games and then saving games to a floppy and then uninstalling and installing another game all because my brother and i were in junior high school and couldn't afford $3,000 for a 500MB drive. anyway, i'm thinking there has to be a use for these things. you know, like how if you collect enough pennies you can buy stuff? i just don't know... i was thinking of some crazy raid-type deal, but same size drives i have not. i only hope when i get old and useless, someone will connect me to a bunch of other humans and then we can serve a purpose.

by mundhra 2002-06-05 13:09:00 | 406 reads | 2 comments

mundhra's journal: the game

as i was leaving my tip for lunch i thought about the game i play. i used to think i played it with everyone else...

by mundhra 2002-07-16 16:55:00 | 437 reads | 8 comments

mundhra's journal: straight ghetto style!?

so i just remembered something of note.

by mundhra 2002-08-01 22:11:00 | 403 reads | 5 comments

mundhra's journal: 30 Seconds to Mars

so there's this band i've been listening to a lot lately. 30 seconds to mars. they're kinda hard to explain. they take elements from industrial, alternative, and i guess prog rock (according to the AMG). not new metal, and not wussy; they just rock. the name is very fitting; kinda futuristic, kinda epic. and, despite not being a priority of mine, the vocals and lyrics are excellent.

by mundhra 2002-08-30 10:12:00 | 377 reads | comment

mundhra's journal: gamecube game idea

with mundhra flava!

by mundhra 2002-12-02 09:18:00 | 355 reads | comment

mundhra's journal: attack of the stupids

i just received an email from an aquaintance. it's a petition email with 319 signatures on it.

by mundhra 2002-12-03 09:53:00 | 440 reads | 2 comments

mundhra's journal: juniata county moments

a while ago, i was back home bullmeepting with a friend and remembered a wonderful christmastime story.

by mundhra 2002-12-23 08:44:00 | 391 reads | comment

mundhra's journal: mcnuggets

i'm afraid of mcnuggets. they have tumors sometimes.

by mundhra 2003-01-08 13:12:00 | 410 reads | 4 comments

mundhra's journal: drunk'd!

haha. so it's friday night and i'm rocking out with some guiness, murphy's, and mcewan's. i'm kinda bored so i'm listening to some death metal and working on a perl script for work.

by mundhra 2003-01-18 00:37:00 | 377 reads | 2 comments

Visions of the Future: Isaac Asimov's Unaired Pilot

Two years before his death, Asimov recorded a pilot for a TV series synthesizing his visionary ideas about where humanity is going. When he passed away in 1992, the pilot for the series was adapted into a tribute domeepentary titled Visions of the Future, now available on YouTube in four parts, totaling 40 minutes of rare footage and biographical background on the great thinker.

by saltpeter 2011-03-15 21:29:58 | 279 reads | comment

The philosophical underpinnings of David Foster Wallace's fiction

When the future novelist David Foster Wallace was about 14 years old, he asked his father, the University of Illinois philosophy professor James D. Wallace, to explain to him what philosophy is, so that when people would ask him exactly what it was that his father did, he could give them an answer. James had the two of them read Plato's Phaedo dialogue together, an experience that turned out to be pivotal in his understanding of his son. 'I had never had an undergraduate student who caught on so quickly or who responded with such maturity and sophistication,' James recalls. 'This was this first time I realized what a phenomenal mind David had.'

by vasudeva 2010-12-22 11:39:12 | 135 reads | 7 comments

Why Is The Sky Dark At Night?

You'd think this would be asked as often as, 'why is the sky blue.'

by Richard_Parker 2010-09-04 21:00:31 | 1294 reads | 6 comments

Charity, First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek investigates the surprising ethical implications of charitable giving.

by LORDKAHUNA 2010-08-03 16:26:47 | 546 reads | 4 comments

Fantastic Contraption 2

it's back

by mundhra 2010-07-22 18:31:48 | 1273 reads | 1 comment

How The Republican Party Has Conned America For Thirty Years

The fallacy that is Republican Economics.... according to a Democrat

by Dismas 2010-07-09 02:27:40 | 964 reads | 5 comments

David Harvey: Crises Of Capitalism

Good lecture becomes fascinating at around 6:00

by dae_su 2010-07-08 11:35:45 | 627 reads | 2 comments

The Mark Of A Masterpiece

Stick with the story, it doesn't go at all like you might suspect it would.

by acheron 2010-07-07 16:44:17 | 872 reads | 2 comments

Entanglement

Create the longest line possible. The more segments your line has, the higher the score you can achieve. How hard could it be?

by godevillivedog 2010-07-07 05:05:35 | 956 reads | 1 comment

Moonbase Alpha - Free Steam Game Created By NASA

U.S. tax dollars hard at work.

by Clavis_Apocalypticae 2010-07-06 21:29:25 | 846 reads | 1 comment