Life Crash

The site crashed the other day. It made me a very sad panda. We lost posts. I salvaged what I could from MSN Search's cache.

It's amazing by how much one's day can change depending on the operation of electronics.

Sure, this server crash was an inconvenience. For some perspective, you should see the shit hit the fan when the code repositories lose power or real time systems crash. Those are very exciting times.

If I was a terrorist, I'd blow up the power grid. No lives would be lost and it would effectively piss off the entire city. After sitting in the dark for a day wondering what I might blow up next, people would have a better grasp of my ability to seriously screw with their lives and might have the time to listen to whatever I wanted to tell them. Unfortunately, the crazies of the world prefer to fuck with transit systems. This only proves that they are bloodthirsty, cowardly, psycho, not at all imaginative and not worth our attention.

I would have finished this by saying that maybe we'd all be better off without electricity, but I've discovered that we need the complexities of technology to amuse us. Living the simple life would mean that babymaking would once again take the forefront in entertainment and economic options. Which may not be all that bad, but with increased population growth we would eventually have the same problems we have today anyways.

Then again, I have no data about Amish population growth. As with everything, this could be totally made up crap.

Also, somehow the Amish manage to be religious fanatics without being terrorists. There is hope for the other extremes in the world.

The only real anti-technology terrorist that comes to mind at the moment is the university educated Unabomber, and as far as I know he had nothing to do the Amish.

But the Amish had something to do with the site crash for sure.

Damn Amish.