Conversations with The Doctor (1)

I have insomnia. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I leave my body to rest and go and have a little chat on the TARDIS with everyone's favorite Timelord. These are transcripts of those conversations.

For the record, in my head the Doctor is usually David Tennant, though sometimes he is Matt Smith. And I know he's got something else he's trying to figure out. I'm just not sure what, yet. I do imagine him to be generally friendly though...

How to make life fair.

You may have noticed: I'm obsessed with fairness. I think that life SHOULD be fair. I know it isn't. I know that most things aren't fair, but that doesn't matter, they should be.

It's a losing battle, trying to make everything fair. You end up sacrificing a lot, because you can't take advantage of things if you want them to be fair; you have to close the loop holes, you have to reduce the unfairness that's in your favor.

Know when to walk away

Eight months ago, I wrote about 'losing' a hobby. I talked about taking a break from my hobby for a while, and how I wanted to make sure I didn't go back and become one of those ass holes that made me want to leave in the first place.

Well, I went back. I actually went back after barely a month off. I went back with a new character, one I enjoyed playing. I played a character I could have fun with, where I could just role play and not have to worry about the way game was run or who was in charge. I could just play.

And for a while, things were good. I was having fun at game, I was getting some good role playing, some fun challenges, all that kind of stuff.

Why no politics?

You have probably noticed by now that throughout this entire cycle, I have refrained from talking about politics. It's not that I don't have opinions, not that I don't want to shape the opinions of others. It's that there's no point.

Think about it. On a social media site, you are posting something for your friends to see. Your friends likely have similar views and opinions to you; that's why you're friends. So when you post something angry about one campaign or the other, you're just yelling at a group of people who feel the same outrage. You're preaching to the choir.

Advice, hypocracy, and ignorance: cornerstones of our society

People ask me for advice a lot. Usually, I'm lax to give it. But the reason I don't want to give it has nothing to do with the quality of my advice. I think I'm always giving good advice. If I thought it was bad, I wouldn't want to give it.

It's like believing you're always right; if you believed you were wrong, wouldn't you change your mind?

No, that's not why I don't like giving advice. I don't like giving it for two reasons: one, because it isn't always followed; and two, because it doesn't always work.

Why do I think that's hot?

When I walk around outside, one of the things I do is count pairs of boots. I count how many pairs of boots that I find sexy walk past me, or walk around me. I don't count Ugs, and sometimes I don't count rain boots. I only count the ones that I find attractive.

Today, I was doing it and wondering why. Why do I find these things so attractive? There was a girl maybe a hundred feet away from me. I could make out that she was wearing jeans, that she had blonde hair, and that she was wearing brown leather boots up to about her knees. And I thought it was incredibly sexy. Why is that?

The impact factor

It is said that on the day of my birth, stock markets around the world crashed. The Bermuda Triangle swallowed a cruise ship, stars in distant galaxies went supernova, and entire civilizations were destroyed by the aftermath.
And by 'It is said,' I mean just now. I just said it.

Some of it, in theory, is true. But that's all just coincidence. The truth of it is that my life hasn't had all that much of an impact on the universe at large. Or, really, even the planet.