{"id":196,"date":"2008-12-01T03:27:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T11:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=196"},"modified":"2008-12-01T03:27:28","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T11:27:28","slug":"runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2008\/12\/01\/runner\/","title":{"rendered":"runner"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m down to 400 comics of cyanide and happiness left. Which means I’ve read over a thousand of them this vacation. I used to try to explain to people about how soda is a “heavy liquid”<\/a>, but nobody got it. I’m glad someone finally did.<\/p>\n

Thanksgiving was fine and all. We somehow had a lot of Ayn Rand discussion, I blame Wendell. So it was funny that “Atlas Shrugged: Updated for the Current Financial Crisis<\/a>” came through my feeds today.<\/p>\n

The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind<\/a> is available for download. I haven’t read it yet, but want to soon. In the search for a way for your life to leave a mark on the world, I have pretty strong feelings about technology and the public domain. If you happen to not be familiar with the concept of open source<\/a>, I urge you to spend some time thinking about it.<\/p>\n

I’m all caught up in reading and uploading photos from Thanksgiving to facebook and flickr<\/a>. So it’s super late, so I don’t know how much I’ll have to talk about at this point.<\/p>\n

I’m not as tired as I was when I was reading unfortunately, since it’s late and I should be sleeping. It’s been a very difficult day for me. The worse part about relationships is the risk of hurting someone’s feelings. I don’t take that well. Mother says I agonize because I have a good heart. I suppose. It’s difficult getting to the point where I’ve come to terms with the consequences of my actions. I don’t think I ever can convince myself that the collateral damage of making the right choices is acceptable enough that it doesn’t still bother me. Today’s movie marathon included Serenity, and I think about Mal’s character talking to Shepperd Book at the fire about digging his own holes and it not making sense. <\/p>\n

Book: You got a plan?
\nMal: Hiding ain’t a plan?
\n. . .
\n[Mal mentions that he could have left River behind.]
\nBook: It’s not your way, Mal.
\nMal: I have a way? That better than a plan?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And that’s pretty much where I am. Keep reading that over and over ’till you get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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