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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
9:16 PM

[Q post/okay, maybe H post. I find it a little funny: The Ridiculousness of My Computer]

There are many ridiculous things in life which I've accepted and grown passive and apathetic about, like the starving children in Africa my parents are constantly talking about as they stuff their faces with roasted chicken, the fact that masochists exist, and of course, the invention (and conspiracy) of the V-neck shirt. But that's besides the point.

The point of today's post is so incongruous that I completely throw my hands up in surrender and let the waves of illogic wash over me and twist my very being into limbo. That's right. Today we shall talk about the paradox (or at else contradiction) of technology.

I had never been on good terms with technology and the works. When we did electric circuits in primary school, the teacher handed me a wire, a battery and a light bulb. Apparently we're supposed to construct a close-circuit with no gaps or breaks. Now, now. You may think this is simple enough, even without the big-fonted and concise instructions, but ahha, it is evidential that God designed Jiasheng with a different blueprint than the other normal humans and that particular design did not include harmonious interaction with anything metal, glass and rubber. In that particular fray, the oaf had won against the metallic invaders and I would have been happy to conclude the war if not for the dark-faced Science teacher.

In any case, recently my friendly ferrous counterparts had staged a rebellion and my computer, handphone and basically anything technological has broken down against me (YES even my hot-water heater, ahhhh!) so I've been forced to learn the wires and the tricks of the trade in order to plan a magnificento comeback. So far it's not successful, but at least I've gotten my mother (she's the handywoman in the house) to fix the computer which is a huge part of why you're seeing this post right now.

However, what she've not fixed are the speakers and thus I am in the deepest agony. I have this obsession that I must have music or at least sound to keep me working. Or else I'll go into hibernation permanently until I wake up hungry and start foraging for nuts again. Okay, so I don't have my music files because they've been (gasp!) deleted but I could go to Youtube, right? No. Because the speakers aren't working, darlings! And I'm dying!

They say you don't know what you have until you lose it. How true. I have a desire to sing out loud through my window to the HDB blocks around me:

My music lies over the ocean,
My music lies over the sea,
My music lies over the ocean,
Oh bring back my music to me!

(Chorus)
Music, oh music,
Bring back my music to me, to me!
Music, oh music,
Bring back my music to me!

I could sing this all day long if not for the middle-aged men staring out of the windows at the opposite blocks (which makes me consider installing curtains).

Anyway, the paradox of computers is that This computer is not true. they are supposed to benefit and aid mankind, and not bring such terrible torture. Can you imagine what is watching a youtube video without sound is like. Just search for some piano music, and watch the person play. Without the sound. Soon you'll go bonkers and starting smashing your head into the keyboard like sadhfjkasdfhslkjdfh sdpofjklsd;hfaskldjfh a;sldkfhsad;klfslfjsadlkfjsglkjbdf and so forth.

That's why we should all revolt against computers! Especially speakerless ones! Go adopt a back-to-basic naturalist lifestyle! Run naked in the woods! Sing wild campfire chants! Eat raw bugs! Name your children Monday Tuesday Wedneday Thursday Saturday Sunday!

Anything's better than watching a silent video.

signed, jiasheng

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