I Eat Rainbows

(To the music of Rocket Man, by Elton John. I don’t claim to be a writer, so this is licensed under the GPLv2. Feel free to use, modify, and build upon this. Maybe we can get a proper tribute out of it.)
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I listen to a podcast called Buzz Out Loud. They used to do a thing where, every day, they would have some wacky holiday that it was, and they would mention it on the show. They stopped doing that sometime ago, but they pointed us of BuzzTown to where the calendar could be found.There was a Google calendar version, so, naturally, I decided to add it to my calendar.

So I was going over my calendar today, and I noticed that the 29th of May, 2007, is End of the Middle Ages Day. This is the same day that the overly Christian school I go to will shoehorn us in a hot sweaty room with blazers on for a one-point-five hour chapel service about Jesus and Christianity and how God wants you to put his trust in him, as they do once a term.

Isn’t that ironic.

… just very busy.

Year 12 has started for me. For those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s the final school year before university. An extremely large percentage of your final marks come from this year. You screw up this year…

…let’s just say Stanford ain’t begging you to join.

So, post frequency, here as on Flickr, is going down. Project365 is on a large number of temporary and intermittent hiatus.pluralize. Life is a whole lot more busy; time is a whole lot more important.

(Oh: Post f -> 0, but there will be short bursts of posts. When I write out all the stuff that’s been bugging me.)

So. I’ll still be posting. I’ll still be uploading. They’ll be rare, and I might not be doing much more than that.

But, to paraphrase why’s poignant guide to ruby, I’m just stopping by to assure you that Sohum hasn’t died.

Earlier, on Sohum’s brain

Here comes 2007. About 8 seconds left now. The noise is like a dull roar in my ears. Oh look, there are the fireworks! Ha.

And now 2007 is officially here. Funny. I don’t feel very different.

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What is it with people and celebrating New Year? So the Earth has reached the exact point it was one year ago. You can say that for every other point in its orbit.

We celebrated the new millenium at midnight on December 31st 1999, not December 31st 2000, so that’s not right already, but how is one point in the orbit of this planet around it’s parent star, given significance by the number of appendages coming out of the major grasping limbs of one particular species living on it, any different from another?

It’s completely arbitrary.

Most of our holidays have lost whatever significance they had by random decisions. The alleged-but-probably-incorrect birthday of a guy who Douglas Adams famously described as “nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to each other for a change.” The eve of a holy day for the praising of saints; now a carved pumpkin.

Independence Days don’t make sense, now that the whole world sees itself as an entity (see the United Nations). Celebrating the day you killed Saddam Hussein (as I bet people will, in the future) is idiotic, as you’re celebrating the wilful, purposeful murder of someone who didn’t conform to your worldview.

I resolve for the New Year that I will be less cynical.

We enjoy celebrating things. It makes us feel as if something is going right. And since there is not much in the world to celebrate, we pick random things out of the air and decide they’re important.

Do we really have anything left to celebrate?