I have SGI's Octane song stuck in my head, and it is LOUD! This is very irritating, although it is kind of cute that I have a real (but not functional) Octane (saved from dumpster) that at some point I'll put a new computer (or two! It's a big case) in. It would be amusing to simply stack MacMinis inside of it -- it could probably fit 4 or 5 stacked on top of each other. For the curious, the song is called "Octane Swing", and appears to be available here.
I am hoping to sell my car as soon as possible, and have thus lowered the price to $2500. As a result, I have a full line of people who want to buy it. Hopefully it'll be sold (and done) by the end of this weekend, and I can call to cancel my car insurance! .. I should find out how insurance works though so I'll know if I'm insured when driving other people's cars or if that normally goes on their insurance. I don't anticipate this happening often, but every so often it probably will.
A few more interesting world-ish kind of things.
- I'm not sure why I get such warm fuzzies when I see anarchocapitalists/libertarian survivalist-types like this guy fall on their faces. I think it may be that I dislike theocracy just about as much as I dislike libertarianism, even though they are in most respects very different in where they lead society. As a thought exercise, it's interesting to try to imagine a society where they both have most of their character expressed. This is difficult -- Libertarian philosophy takes certain stances on force and liberty (for example, that speech and action are different spheres of interaction that should be treated very differently) that don't seem, taken as a whole, like they should be acceptable to most religions I know of that would create a theocratic state. It would be an interesting task to try to find an appropriate religion that would need minimal reconciliation with libertarian philosophy, and to go through the work to find the way to best preserve the character of both in a cohesive system. I suppose in doing so, I would probably be exploring intellectually spooky ground, in that if, for example, I picked Christianity or Islam, I would be exploring and explaining my understanding and perspective on Christian or Muslim ideal theology.
- Following up on their announcement that they're going to start shipping AMD64 systems, Dell is now bundling Google software with their desktops. This is cool. I sometimes am bothered that my feelings towards Google are so positive -- being human, this starts to build emotional investment in me, and it isn't fun to deal with disappointment when emotional investment is torn away by reality. Hopefully realising this will minimise the effect.
- MP Galloway has (again!) said something controversial that I agree with but am at least bothered to volunteer - that the assassination of Tony Blair would be morally acceptable due to his support of the invasion of Iraq, with BushJr presumably in the same boat. I don't see a strong difference between assassinations and a trial (although the latter is preferable for society in that due process is a good habit to be in, that's a duty to society, not to the accused, in that due process does not always ensure a proper result).