let me negotiate...

what? just what is pain? is there pain in dying? apparently not... so one thought i have about dealing with all these terrorist types is to introduce them to "living" pain, pain that doesn't end. really anguish pain. see, i think its been, oh about 6,000+ years that these folks have been living in the heat of the sun, and well, that's just too long! give them lemonade now! give them some shade now! and let them see their women! that might help things? or maybe not, maybe you should keep some things hidden? so, anyway, it strikes me that when you believe you get honor when you die as a martyr, then we need to change up some things... (a) you don't get to die, you get to live, and you get life long pain... some cases to where you think you are dying, and we save you bring you back, for... yes, you guessed it, more pain... maybe when someone lives in constant pain, when they do bad to others, a few generations of that, and things will change... maybe new found respect for life and living? other than that, "...i'll have the cold lamb sandwich. my wife taught me that.." (meet joe black) when i was king, i passed a law that ended all drive by shootings: YOU HAVE TO EAT WHAT YOU KILL! a good rule to use in IRAQ now too, i think. terrorists beware, you better be hungry!

IPods and iBrains...

ok, i finally got into this century and bought an iPod. i have had the great pleasure of loading some (so far) 4,564 songs onto my 30GB iPod. i didn't realize it, but i have about 6,000 cd's all over the place... many duplicates, about 100 i would guess. So, it dawns on me, why can't that smarty pants bill gates, especially now that he will have all that extra ca$h and extra time on his hands, invent the iBrain. where you can digitize all your memories, say by date only, and have a little "cyber feed" in your head that puts these memories up on the home theater's big screen? then if you wanna see what you were doing back on may 21, 1968, you can... can someone fwd this email to bill gates? ;o)

Whats it all about, Alfie?

I got a new iPod. I should say I got an iPod, cause unless you're a gang banger, of course it's going to be new, right? Anyway, I am loading up my old cd collection, of which I calculate I have about 6,500, so I think I need the larger iPod. The cool thing is I am finding I have songs on some of these cds that I was unaware I owned. Interesting covers, or long ago lost titles of songs "gone by". So it makes me wonder, "what" other technology can we invent that can help us organize ourselves, and find other "lost" bits and pieces of things, we didn't realize we even have still. For instance, what about past lovers? Past street fights when we were kids? The feelings we experienced the first time we were homesick? How about some first time taste bud explosion over a new lucious, rich, creamy, thick dessert of some sort? So far the iPod has all this for our hearing, which transfers into our memories. Am I too nutty to think we can find the technology to bring back other things lost to our other sensories? And can we wire into our brains and see the reruns? Net flicks mails to your door, why not "MY FLICKS" that we push a date in our past and we get to watch it all again, hearing, smelling, remembering every aspect of it. I heard Bill Gates is retiring, maybe he can go back to the garage of origin and come up with something? Hey, don't look at me, I am just the "idea" guy!