Journal t0qer's Journal: Fuck superbowl 1
Fuck superbowl...
Seriously, I thought about it for a minute. I never even liked football, all that running around proves what? Someone is physically strong? Big woop. I know who's playing, practically every fucking football head and television has burned it into my head through both audio and visual assaults.
I read, I would hide inside the library at recess. I read everything I could about science, lots of good childrens fiction (Runaway ralph is a classic) and generally just sat in front of something with text until the advent of my first computer.
Socially speaking, I watch it because of people like my neighbor, "WTF IS A MATTER WITH YOU? SOMETHING WRONG WITH SOMEONE THAT DOESN'T WATCH FOOTBALL" He likes to tease a lot, I snapped back, "YEAH IT'S ASSHOLES LIKE YOU THAT TURN ME OFF TO IT!" We always have a good roast like that over a soda. We'll sit in his garage with the door wide open, enjoying the day throwing caps back and forth.
I mean sure, football is a national pastime and everything, but America has so many more national pastimes now, like battlebots (still don't watch it, don't like the eat what's on your plate interface of TV" Ok. Ok. So maybe not battlebots, but definetly computer science, writing, authoring stuff, mechanical design and others. I just don't like anything but computers.
I don't like generalizing what I like about computers too much anymore either. What do I do? I take old shit and turn it into routers or simple internet terminals, I draw stuff in truespace, I set up networks, I download shit on p2p networks, I set up p2p networks like bittorrent, I build BSD based webservers with apache/mysql/php and load up php/mysql apps, I solder stuff together, I make pringle cans 802.11 antennas, I burn cd's, I install OS's, I configure e-mail, I build open mosix clusters.
I used to get paid doing this stuff, but now I do it just to keep me busy and my mind focused. Sure it ain't watching football, but it's a helluva lot more fun.
No one is safe from Superbowl... (Score:2)
Personally, I wish they'd bring back coverage of the Sumo wrestling tournaments in Japan. Sport *and* culture programming combined - what's not to like?