countries, truth, and a subtle clever little pun.

Alright,
I know this weeks post is a little late, but I have been working on being happy (and yes it worked) so I haven't found much of great interest around the web. Nor have I come across any great topics to talk on. This morning in calculus I was trying to define what equals really meant, but I can't imagine that my ramblings on that would be very entertaining.

I will tell you of a little online game I play every once in a while. It was shown to me by my roommate (a geek of similar caliber but in a different arena). It is a geography game. Yes the stuff your parents remember hating in grammar school and most of us never had to learn because other nations aren't really important anymore (ever wonder where that happened?). Anyway, here is the URL.

One thing I can talk about for a while is that I am not sure where lying and truth should play into things. I suppose this is part of growing up and learning and all that, but it took me forever to believe that lying ever had merit. I still believe that honesty is generally the best policy (although sometime it takes great effort to convince me this). Just staying quiet is great too but that is something I need to work on as well. I watch people that keep things to themselves and never tell people anything and I watch them struggle with it. I watch myself just say everything and be open and honest to a foolish degree and I watch myself put my foot in my mouth over and over again. I watch people put up facades, and lie to protect them, and become entirely different people than who they are. I can't even imagine living like that. In the end I guess it comes back to my struggle with individual situational vs. categorical and generalized. A debate I am not sure I will ever finish.

Oh, pun for last night. first the back story. I was working with a number of people on a program called Pipe for UNIX, basically it lets you string programs together (horrible oversimplification but it will do). I have also recently gained an interest in long stem meerschaum pipes. so I found myself saying "I wanna Finnish pipe" and laughing quietly to myself. Of course I meant it as "I wanna finish pipe" but either is a valid statement.