Not feeling inspired tonight, so here’s videos n’ shit.

First, we have a thing that blew my mind.

In fact, the mind blowing hasn’t ended. I still find it amazing that euphony is so mathematical and simple. Just whole number ratios. That’s it. I guess music has always seemed so mysterious and mystical to me that I couldn’t imagine it being something as simple as whole-number as opposed to fractional ratios could explain it. Even though, looking back, the evidence was there in whatever scraps of knowledge of music that I had.

Today has been a frustrating day. First, I learn that my class for today is canceled, which always knocks the blocks out from under me. And I learned this while waiting for the bus to said class. That’s a heck of a lot better than only finding out when I got there and there was a note on the classroom door, but still, fuck.

Then I decide to take the energy from class and apply it to figuring out WTF is up with my student loan money. But I couldn’t figure out what’s up in the whatwhat from the website. It seemed it was saying I was getting either $1,444 (which would be way too little) or $4,765, which would be WAY too much.

But I’ll take it.

Here’s some of my usual over-too-soon music.

There’s some of my fave samples in there.

So then I get the courage up to call the 1-800 number (remember, I am not so great with the phone) and navigate through the phone menu and whatnot, and as I suspected, the system gave me a lot of information (in a pleasing baritone) but did not answer my actual question, which is “Bitch, where my money at?”.

I have waited so goddamned long for it. Like, an absurdly long time. I must be the only student at Kwantlen still waiting for his fucking loan to go through in November.

Maybe that’s the problem, I dunno.

Here’s something from the simpler and more innocent time when we had sunshine :

I kind of miss those despite their being disturbingly realistic. As with actual heavy duty smoked meat type things, I love the flavour to pieces, but I can’t eat that much of it. The combination of flavour overload and crazy high sodium levels always wears me out pretty fast.

Anyhow, the automated system did not clarify my situation. From what it said, it sounded like my money should be here already. Ages ago, in fact. Like, a month ago.

Same thing the website said, though in different (but equally confusing) language. The automated system never answers my question. I think that’s because a) I have trouble absorbing certain kinds of information orally and b) if my question was simple enough for an automated system to answer, I would probably figure it out myself.

So I just gave up on the automated system and hit zero to talk to an actual person. I hear exactly two seconds of bongo music (quite good, actually), a different pleasant baritone telling me that I am being transferred to whatever, a partial phone ring (always a bad sign in my experience), and then…. nothing. Total silence. Can hear my own breathing over the line.

And it stayed the same no matter how many times I tried it today.

All of this left me extremely thwarted. And I hate that.

Now here’s a video where I brush up against the third rail by talking about something that is currently the most virulent and potent taboo in modern society.

Note how gingerly I step around the topic. That is how frightened anti-pedophile hate makes us all. We live in an era where men are afraid to take a picture in a park for fear of being accused of photographic kids for prurient reasons.

And make no mistake, this is a guy thing. Only men know this fear. A woman could walk into a busy playground and snap pictures of kids from under the monkey bars and nobody would blink an eye. A guy takes a picture of kids playing from a distance and an angry mob of parents and nannies descends upon him. He might even be picked up by the cops. And no matter what his intent was, his life is basically over, because everyone is really enjoying hating him as a pedophile and so he will be a pedophile in their eyes no matter what anyone says.

We have clearly gone too far in the right direction.

Next, a basic flaw in democracy, at least as it is practiced today.

That sort of thing is why I want there to be a total polling blackout for the month leading up to an election. I realize that would be goddamned tricky to put into practice, if not impossible, but still, I can dream. If there were no polls for a whole month before the election, nobody would have any idea who was “winning” and would have to vote their conscience, or at the the very least, their best guess as to who will win.

And politics can only be improved by taking this whole “afraid to back a loser” factor out of the equation. What we are supposed to do as citizens of a democracy is voted for the person we think is right, more or less.

Direct democracy would clear so much of this up.

One last video. This one concerns a topic relevant to today’s world and its problems : time travel.

That is as close as I have come to a version of time travel that is logically coherent. Whether the concept itself makes any sense or whether it is even possible to talk about the subject with our temporally one-dimensional minds and language is up for plenty of debate, but at least my version avoids a lot of massive logical inconsistencies inherent in the usual plot-driven but ill thought out approach to time travel in science fiction writing.

Well, them’s my words. Thanks for watching and reading, folks!

I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.