Author Archives: ofurhe

Progress

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A friend of a friend refers to her ‘islands of knowledge’ in the ‘sea of my ignorance.’ Unlike our physical oceans, my sea is actually infinite. Here is a short list of things I don’t understand, to help define the borders of my islands. Perhaps I will make a sidebar and add to it as time goes on.

    global warming denial
    diamonds
    drinking alcohol to excess
    children’s menus
    why women tend to prefer fiction and men prefer non
    racism
    why people have sex/babies
    loud people
    work-appropriate clothes for women

Maybe you can help me understand some of these things?

12/19 My brother has added:

1) men prefer nonfiction because it is better.
2) people drink boozahol to excess b/c it is super funzos.

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I don’t have the words today so I’m borrowing other peoples’

as the poet remarks, “Life is a strife, ’tis a struggle, ’tis a dream,” and if he goes on to say it were also “a bubble,” I should feel gratified and sincerely hope some sportive young angel should smash said bubble in his infinite glee and the Almighty bubble-blowing company would start another with rather more of the soothing properties of soap & a little less salt water, one less empty and shiny and one one which there wasn’t such a tendency to slip and pitch, to say nothing of falling off into space & being seen no more.

-Louisa may Alcott, via Eden’s Outcasts

Angela: This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received instructions on where to go and what to do.

-Angela Chase, My So-Called Life

I haven’t received my instruction manual for life yet, have you?

Computer appreciation

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Yesterday as I was opening the door front door to my house, I was reminding myself to appreciate the little things. We never seem to appreciate our computers until stuff starts to go wonky. But every day they perform miraculous feats constantly; thanks for all the emails sent, the pages saved, the photos commented, it really is magic as far as I’m concerned.

I became all the more appreciative when I realized the front door of my house was unlocked and that my computer had been stolen. So long red Lenovo U110, hello iPad. Appreciate your computers (and back them up) you never know what might happen.

Also keep an eye out for my laptop, I don’t trust the Berkeley PD when they say this is a ‘top priority’.