I Eat Rainbows

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.

And it came to pass, that on the first day after Lucifer fell from Heaven, he formed his dominion.
On the second day, he summoned one of the angels that were loyal to him. And he spake unto him thus,
Verily, I say unto thee, that God hath a plan for mankind.
And the angel replied thus,
This I know. But God hath not divulged much of it to anyone.
And then Lucifer spake in reply,
But he hath told me, that in the future, he shall bring technology onto the world.
And the angel was surprised, and asked Lucifer,
Technology, Lord? But technology is very powerful. Why does God want to give his children that much power?
And Lucifer replied thus,
This I do not know. But I shall corrupt technology. I shall dumb its power down so much, that people will say,
Why do I need technology?
And the angel marveled, and spake thus,
But that would require much power, Lord. How shalt thou do that?
And Lucifer replied,
I shall corrupt one man. And he shall create technology that is so easy to use, that many people will use his technology. But his technology will not work with other technology, so more and more people will use his technology.
And then the angel interrupted, and spake thus,
The snowball effect. A clever plan, Lord.
And Lucifer continued,
And he shall make his technology so powerless, that no-one will be able to do much. And thus I shall corrupt technology.
And thus it came to pass…
The Book of Lucifer, 1:5

That was a post on my old wlog, at http://sohumonline.tiddlyspot.com.

It’s pretty much defunct, me having ignored it for a while now.

It was my original attempt at a blog, and I kinda liked the feeling that to find a topic to blog about, all I had to do was find an uncreated page.

Ah well. It was plagued by errors, being built on the decent-for-light-usage TiddlyWiki. It had some interesting posts, which I might move here someday.

In the meantime, I really enjoyed that rant against Microsoft reposted above.