I need this!!!!

I've just been encouraged to throw a though on one of the few things I really take to heart.
The decay of humanity. Uhhh sounds gloom. Yes, I'll be nagging a bit. Deal with it, contemplate over it. Or confirm my disgust in the human race.

I'd still call my self relatively new to the G+ thing, combined with blogger, and all the other great interacting tools, so I'm still learning the ropes.
One thing I take from the great vast Internet, or world in general is eavesdropping. I've always been the guy in the corner listing in on other peoples huge life issues. Over the years the nature of the problems have changed, and then again they haven't. But my ability to shut up has improved. Life is often less complicated when you shut up.

Blogging is to me actually a 2 way process. I post therefore I am. I follow and read other, because I take interest and care. My blogs are windows to my soul, purple some would say, others call it insane or just plain weird. I've come to terms with the fact that I'm essentially not "normal" and I don't really want to be "normal". It's too dull :)

okay, this a long self explanatory introduction to the thing I'm actually writing about: The shallowness of our age.

I'm a nerd, and I'm proud of it. (there's a difference between nerds and geeks).
A lot of my interests are geekish in nature, but well most often the geek culture stuff have more content to provide. More in depth materials. And that's from what I understand the nature of Nerds, they dig out and relish every miniature detail to something utterly irrelevant.

I've been following a few blogs of teenager, and been looking for interesting blogs to read. Mostly I see 500 Teenager blogs doing an "instagram/twitter" show, some for years, but most for less. If I'm lucky I find one with talent, worth my time.
The trend is easy to spot, and once you start spotting it. Things starts to look rather grim.

I first noticed it with movies...
Remember I'm old age Nerd terms, just keep that in mind.
Age old mainstream discussion, which is better and why:
New hope VS. Return of the Jedi

Personally I don't have a favorite, but I'm always open to discuss the qualities of each.
Later this happened:
Star wars Wiki page (notice diagram in bottom)
With Phantom menace releasing everybody suddenly was a Star Wars expert. Yet today few consider episode 1-3 real Star Wars.
Again I won't take sides here, but I understand where they are coming from. Star Wars was an epic movie in it's own, and the history and epicness of it yielded loads of background materials. Even before the Menace there was role playing games, short stories and books. Don't start me on all the merchandise, course that's part of the problem.
With Menace everything was redesigned, and republished. Those with love for the culture embraced it at first. Until they started realising, there actually wasn't coming new content, just reiterations of old content, and people gulped it up.
Did you know "The force" is religion in Australia. Some people actually have taken the culture to a point where they base a religion on the mindset of a fiction writer.

Of course he's rather rich now...

Now, what does this have to do with teenagers today?
I can't have my eyes open 1 hour without spotting some form of "message" that I need this exact product. I rarely remember the product. But from time to time I acquire the product, use it and judge it. I rarely find something that works as advertised, and thusly I mostly acquire stuff that isn't advertised.
I don't press the like button unless I mean it. etc etc.
And yes i have a facebook account I haven't quite seen for a long time. Frankly since Timeline was introduced, yet timeline was not what drowe me away, it just made the final drop.

I find my blogs via Facebook, or tried to. There was quite a few groups of promising bloggers. But the way they get readers are the default modern day marketing trick tactics: You spam.
Most of my active life consists of spam. It's very visual, and people react to it. But it's still spam.
People knowing my eating habits, would know that I wouldn't mind eating spam (locally known as Jakabov), I'll even prepare and cook it, but if hungry enough. I'll just eat it.
People often find it disgusting. But really, is it much different from what they do with their minds?

With the current generation I notice an overflow where the state of mind is that you are what other people tell you that you are. This holds true most of the time, when people are honest.

Trouble gets worse when your environment gets spammed with material content.
Getting back to movies, I've seen few movies worth watching the past decade, I know I can count all of them with 2 hands. But I've seen loads of worthless flashy junk.
It's blink, it's what the masses want. Did you watch Men In Black, great movie ;) Remember the scene, where Will need to choose to join up or walk away, red pill/blue pill? Watch the movie again and take a minute and think about it.


okay, as usual I seem to have wondered off in some 10 million directions without getting any closer to putting my initial thoughts into writings, and with my loathing of backspace/delete, we now have quite  a text, no one will read to the end.

Bottom line is as always, it's not the clothing you wear, it's how you wear it. And not everyone are ready to meet you, it takes time. Assuming YOU are still yourself by then. Just be yourself and own your choices. They are always yours to make.

I should twitter more :)
If you actually read this to the end, leave a comment. Could be fun to see if anyone actually gets to the end, and more so, who......
Ohh don't worry, I'll iterate some other day when i have more focused mindset.
Ha ha, and looking at the title I see the anchor is missing, here you go, and understand I best be getting this sorted:

It's finally here

Yes, yesterday. The slate finally arrived. The financing didn't go as I planned. But people have had a good time telling me how stupid I am for insisting on helping myself when other stand ready to provide assistance. But that's just one of my strange sticking to principles even when it hurts ideas.

Anyway. It's mine now. The model P5100 white, plus the samsung earplugs with a microphone, the keyboard for easy work applications. The leather sleeve cover, also samsung recommended. And the table charger for home/nigth charging, it's still in the mail, but I'll get by with the default charger for now.

So do I like it?
For the moment it's just as I expect. Was positivly impressed it was shipped charged, meaning I didn't have to wait a day or so while it charged.
Another great thing is the auto sync with the old device, meaning I didn't have to seek my much liked applications.
Of course this means I need to remain strick in it's usage, as a complete systemwipe seems hard or even impossible. I suppose it's the price you pay for being clouded.

The first few issues are showing up. Using G+ and learning how that works, I found a problem seeking more content. This might as well be a Google issue as it be a samsung problem, which leads me to getting anoud that android insists this is a mobile phone, ignoring the fact it's a tablet, and thusly not exactly suited for phone usage. Sure it can do it, but it's not the prime function of the device. Also many application insists it's a mobile and thus use cramped mini UI. Sure I see the point when using 3 and 4" screens. But I use this more as a netbook then a mobile and the screen is huge with this in mind.

I'm sure I'll found solutions. But for now it's problem.

Passion

I often at some point seem to write this down.

While currently writting I start wondering why I keep doing it. Maybe it's my way of telling the world better who and what I am, without even knowing it myself. At any rate thinking about it doesn't change it.

This is kind of a prelude to my coming "I want to be a Spacemarine when I grow up" entry I'll get around to sometime.

I'm a libra. According to astrology I'm a passionate person, and I must say it hold true. I have passion, and I have it in drowes to the point I excrete it.

I've been picking up a few blogs on blogger now that seems to be interesting pass times to dive into, and I see a common trade I seem unable to note in them and it's the Force of passion I so love.

Coming with a background philosofy of Bushido, I keep missing the followthru. I tend to me mostly attracted to force and the show of force, it being subtle or sensible. It's hard to explain in words as it's more a sense of feeling then it's an expresion.
For instance picking up one of my beloved tunes: Evanescene - Bring me to Life

I love the tune from it expresion of force, the tune itself by itself is actually rather simplistic and boring.
As we're talking in tunes, same thing happens with many more hardcore bands, an example could be Rammstein: Rammstein - Ich will

Listening to stuff like this completely immersed in the sensation of rhythmic sensation, following an emotion of determination. Completely ground you'll feel an urge to stand fast or react with forcefull intend. And here I find my understanding of Bushido.

For those unaware of what Bushido covers, I'm no expert but speaking from my own views, it's an ancient strategy code. Compare it to Tsu Sun teaching. Bushido was written in medieval Japan, by a samurai that shall we see had seen the light. He was succesfull and lived long enough to put his perspectives into writing.
The main principle is any action or reaction should be done in one single fluid motion. Stopping to think about it halfway through hampers you.

Reading this while writing and with my IT background and experience with projects of that sort, it makes no sense at all. As if you blindly implement a design without refactoring the design once in a while the end product will most often be bad.
Writing this I then again understand why Bushido works. You shouldn't implement a faulty design to begin with, and any implementation you start should be finished, closed and delivered. Before you start redesigning / refactoring. Complete your actions.

It's like if you fall off a cliff you have options... You can start screaming until you hit the ground... Not very effective, but you'll be noticed by everyone not in the same state.
Alternatively you can start falling and prepare yourself for the impact on the ground, and starting doing whatever you can for this impact to have the best possible outcome available to you.

If that was a cartoon, one would splatter all over the page, the other would make a crater, slowly rising to take on the next challenge. Which cartoon would you like to assosiate with?

And now I wonder how the frag I ended up here, as this wasn't quite the direction or conclusions I were putting into text.

A few tidbits of my brain, just so there's some form of reasoning to the title, and what I failed to put in text:
Passion isn't equal love. you can both hate and love with the same passion.

If you want me to better finish this on the rigth track, throw me your version of passion. Pictures are good:

Always needing a few more buck...

So the paycheck finally arrived. Now new problem arises
1. I want a dataslate.
2. I need to pay subscription costs for Eve.
3. I got a backlash from utillity bills, making it factor 3.

This is in the order of what I want, rather then what I need.
Of course I need to pay the backlash payment on the utility bill, secondly I need to pay subscriptions for my Eve (2 mains) and what's leftover I can play with.

The operation is relatively simple: I have let's say 10.000, using clean numbers with no reference to reality, as I'm uncomfortable putting that online. 10 grand is a nice round number...

So working backwards, the Utility bills are little less then 6k, the Eve subscription is roughly 1k (x2) and a dataslate would be roughly 3500-4000. Summing up= 11,5-12 K and continuing: 11,5-12k > 10k = I don't get a Slate....

Okay, I whine, therefore I am???
Not really, so, what to do...
The Utility is non negotiable, it's 6k,- that's it. Everything else we can shuffle around.
First step: Eve.... 2k for 2x1 years... Well we're in June now, so maybe we can cut that back. Coupled with the Freebie Project, maybe I can cut it even more. But how much. Going to do a long shot and do it at half price = 1k for 2x 6months??
It's a bit of a gamble as fund will not flow until next year again for sure..
Then the slate?
I've tested and tried the Samsung Galaxy 10.1, and the Samsung Galaxy 5(WIFI) and I like them. Last week it took a price jumps + the Tab 2 is on sale, but it's still 3,5k I need to push it down to 3k.
That means waiting...

Things that spring to mind while you sit there:
I want the data slate as it's an android platform that works well with Google Maps, latitude and navigation.
Now I see something called ChomeOS, and I rather want the ChomeOS tablet 10.1. Yet I know nothing about it or whether I can even use it. But I bet it's cheaper. Also I'm sure it's more directly connected then Android.
In the end I'll just have to wait and see where things drop off.

I don't like hanging myself in the Freebie project path, but "working" a few hours each day, should be enough to carry both Maxx Loproc and other toons, but I'm most scared I might need outside help.

What I hate the most is having to stand idle and wait for things to happen. Things I can't really control, but i keep thinking I can.
While at it, hoping to win the lottery doesn't make things worse. Would be a nice addition in the project of removing economical dependencies....