Useless fact of the day:

The Mola Mola, or Ocean Sunfish, lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at one time.

Ok, I'm sitting here on Christmas eve, stuffed and sleepy after a long but very nice day. The food was excellent, and the presents, well, not like in the old days, now it's almost nicer to see how the people, whom one gave presents to, react.

Since that the schedule says that this is basically just a day of enjoyment at home, I just HAD to get to the computer and just do something with it or I'd go bonkers from all the unproductivity. So I found myself making some blabby stuff, listening to music, and playing freecell while I didn't know what to write about. Now if you don't know freecell, I'll just say it's one of the card games standard to windows 95. In freecell, you get streaks (yes, streaks, the type I hate since I get hooked on them) from either winning or loosing. Freecell isn't all that hard to loose in normally, and my old record win streak was on about 20. But as the day progressed, and as I sporadically sat down at the computer typing a bit, and doing a Freecell game or 2, it struck me that it's possible to actually get an unlimited win-streak in this game. I'm going on and on here, and I don't wanna turn this game off now, since that will mean the end of the streak, so I'm playing on and on, game after game, and I don't wanna lose on purpose to end it, and it's getting late (early) here now. Aaaaaaaarggggggg ANOTHER EEEEEVIL MICROSOFT PLOT !!!!

Ok, finally a game got the better of me, and I can rest again. In the end, I got impatient, and game #11600 was the one that eventually killed me, putting a swift and sudden end to my 59 game win streak.

BTW, Freecell Game #3950 was the tuffest one for me to crack, you try it :). The games are numbered, from 0 to 32.000 or something, for some reason. And sometimes, they just get stuck, really stuck, or seem impossible from the start.

Nuff bored Gnug-talk here.

Ahh, another day of food, rest, sleeping late and boiling heavily. So what better opportunity than to try and get a Blab done? Arh.

In my last 2 Blabs, I've been in the preaching mood, striking down on selfishness, apathy and thoughtlessness. I would just like to note to all that I'm far from perfect myself. As a wise old Gnug once said: "To ere is Gnug". The same ol' Gnug went on to say that: "But to make a total mess of things, you'll need a Human" :). All joking aside, I think I might have come out a bit too much in sounding "Do as I say, not as I do". My intent was sincere enough however. I truly try to practice what I preach, as it is something I firmly believe in, and that if all tried a bit harder, the world would be a better place for us all. It's the trying that's the important part, since perfection is something we'll never reach, but that was never the point. "Crave not perfection, but crave the craving", as someone said. (Someone DID say that, right ?)

Self realization is an important part here. Realize what and when you're doing something wrong, and don't be too proud to apologize for it. Realize what you are and what you are not, and learn to live with it.
        Self criticism too. It's important to know that mistakes are bound to occur, and to not have such an infallible attitude towards anything. The true masters (of whatever) are always humble and modest. I try to be humble and modest even though I'm not a master of anything. An attitude I think should be reserved to everyone. Not because I'm necesarily good at it and feel that I'm above anyone else in the matter, like I said: do as I say, not as I do! :)
        Hehe, kidding... or maybe not. I think most could agree on what is essentially right or wrong, to some extent. And can we not agree that being humble and modest is something that should be an obvious way of life for everyone.

I know I'm jumping alot around from subject to subject here, and keep Blabbing about the same things, but I don't feel one can Blab too little about this stuff. The question in recent discussions has arisen to what extent it can pay to be honest and frank. This is not to be mistaken with lying or telling the truth, but the question of whether it should be openness at all times, or hide certain things. All to a reasonable level ofcourse. Brute honesty and openness can have it's moments, but some advocate in favor of it applying at ALL times, and while I do believe in honesty, openness isn't necesarily the same thing here. I'm talking about the times where saying something, just to get it off your chest, will only cause harm to another person. Especially in initial impressions, and perhaps more exactly, initial impressions of online personas. If the first thing a person you meet online shows is a hint of ignorance or newbieness, should one be blunt to the person and tell him/her what a Twirp he/she is?

This is just a small example of a situation where one can either be polite, or honest, and not necesarily doing the right thing by doing either of those. A more obvious example: An Obese person. Should one tell it to them to their faces, just to be sure that then you've said what you felt and you can rest assured in your own honesty? With an obese person, one would assume that they're pretty aware of their state, but can still be hurt by brute honesty. But what about people in situations where they aren't aware of whatever particular "Flaw" that you intend to, so honestly, to inform them about? The big question here is whether that honesty is selfish, or unselfish. That's the great divide in this matter.
        To some degree, we're all selfish, and every act and thought has some ammount of selfishness in it, an alterior motive of such. Well, there's no shame in that, it's only natural, and tho a thought or act can seem self-sacrificial, I assume it gives you some ammount of joy. Calling it selfishness is perhaps even the wrong word, but I will stick to calling it that, constantly reminding myself atleast of my infallability and imperfection.

Oh bugger, it's getting to be another long Blab today, I'll just finish off with telling you all a bit about my urge for preaching.

So where does this urge to preach come from then, and what do I get from it? I guess it's many things and not one, like it usually is (though I have an incredible tendency and urge to Generalize).
        But if I could mention 2 things, I would say the preaching urge comes from being a Trekkie and having seen "Se7en" a bit too often. If you don't understand why, go and indulge yourselves in those 2 phenomenons.
        And what do I get from it? Well, some form of self-satisfaction is always involved, I'll admit that right off the bat. I think I've always been liking to yelling out about other peoples, and my own, mistakes and erronous ways. Society needs critics, and I guess I'm one of them, slowly finding my place in the community.

Gnug215, signing off for today :)

Ah btw, as I mentioned brute honesty towards newbies, I think that in my next Blab, I'll try and give my shot at how a newbie should act and not act if trying to avoid looking like a newbie, and perhaps being shunned by many a person due to their inexperience. No promise, but I'll try to throw a list together or something :)