Saturday, February 26, 2011

Tomorrow is just a day away

I'm thinking that in the future I'll probably write a book.

Why put off tomorrow what you can put off today?

Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life. The next day is too.

I don't know what the future holds, but it's probably really good.

In the future I'll probably have the sort of job that fulfills me at least ninety six percent of the time on a good week and ninety four on a bad week.

At some point we'll probably pick up a stray cat. I'll blame Sadie in advance.

I'd like it if someone could remind me at least once a day that today is the first day of the rest of my life.

I'm planning on a vacation in the future.

If I had to pick the color of the bench that I'd like to sleep on, unquestionably it would be green.

In the future I'll develop patience.

Didn't Hume mention something about the sun not rising? Is this useful?

Lists are aggravating when made by other people but very reassuring when I make them. This property is not unique to lists.

It's hard to not to fall victim to the transitive property when watching sports.

Still, I'm guessing that the sun will rise tomorrow. Hume aside.

We watch movies in thirty minute segments.

The strange thing is, now whenever I hear a baby cry I am able to identify it in an entirely new way. I don't mean that old story about recognizing your baby's cry. Rather, I mean to say that I recognize that a child is crying and that it means something. Okay, what I mean is, and this is most of life, trying to explain what one means or intends to mean, that I understand the cry in a universal sort of way that was previously unavailable.

Time is money --Ben Franklin

Between job and baby and twenty minutes here and there, I don't have any time. Are the two that strongly correlated? I hope not.

Ben Franklin=100 U.S. dollars. How does his face peering out from the bill change our perception of the quote? Does it?

Though standards of attractiveness have varied throughout time it's fair to say that Ben Franklin is transcendently attractive. How did we get here? Was the transitive property involved? Constantly misapplied.

According to a sleep book that S is reading babies do best when they are put down at 6:30 P.M.

According to me people who are reading books about anything baby related become briefly insufferable and unapproachable on the subject while simultaneously sort of earning that insufferableness by actually having read a book about the given subject. This probably has something to do with lists and perhaps the transitive property.

Speaking of the future...We know that time travel does not exist because not too many people were at the Crucifixion. Does this make sense? If not, why? Is it possible/probable that the entirety of human history would be altered in the moment that time travel is achieved?

In the future we should probably colonize Mars.

One of my favorite lines on the Simpsons is Homer saying, "When will people get it. Democracy doesn't work." If only he had added, "without a specific almost entire lack of socio-cultural specific heritage and a sort of clean slate and only after one half of the new nation tried to split off." Though, in retrospect, the original line is probably funnier.

Does being lazy have any merit?

In the future I'm going to be productive.

Is it odd that Ben Franklin didn't even know that Mars existed or is this just the sort of exigency that we accept as a necessary condition of existence. Ie, not pondering the intense weirdness of our specific place in time?

Tomorrow is going to be a big day as long as the sun rises.

2 comments:

  1. perhaps you should delve (philosophize) about
    why each face is on a particular denomination?
    who is better looking...franklin, lincoln,
    hamilton, washington...
    why does everyone's name end in an "n"?

    does all this time and space have to do with the new movie "i am number 4?"

    so if s goes down at 6:30 do you eat supper
    or dinner then to bed by 8?

    will your book be fiction or non-fiction?
    so much to ponder, so little time...

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  2. The good thing about being lazy is that some of those things that you were going to do, but didn't, wouldn't have worked out for the best anyway. I think you told me this when you were twelve.

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