10.14.03. 10am.
espn.
this morning on the bus, i was thinking about psychic phenomena. now, bear with me here, because i think i have an analogy that could be interesting, if perhaps wildly off-base and absurd.
imagine the phenomenon of brains talking to each other is like computers talking to each other. now, we have the interweb, and that's like this big collective psychic area of the world that we can all look at. but imagine if everyone only had browsers, and no one had the ability to upload anything onto the internet. then there'd be no psychic ability - no one could get any information directly off anyone else's machine or anything like that. only email - normal, fairly non-invasive communication. which, really, is what most people do - browse the internet and email, but that's as far as it goes.
even people with their own server and the ability to ftp don't have the idea to do anything akin to psychic communication - they can't force you to point your browser to their page. i guess they could email you a link. like porn spam. that part doesn't really fit the analogy.
but there are other advanced things! like web-sharing, and remote access, and web conferencing, that can give one computer direct access to another over the interweb, with read-write privileges sometimes. usually that only comes about with active participation on both sides, and maybe that has to happen if people want to do psychic connection stuff. but then again, there are hackers and viruses and stuff, that can do a hostile take-over of your machine. maybe those people are, like, evil psychics, who choose not to use their powers for the forces of good.
you see what i'm saying? with the interweb, there is this big collective mind thing we can all access, but direct person-to-person communication is still mostly very confined, except in special circumstances. which could be like psychickitude, right?
oh, never mind.
in other news, this journal is almost four years old. wow! there aren't many things like this that i've actually stuck with for four years. i mention it now because i just noticed, and i'll probably forget in a month and a half when the actual journalversary rolls around. on the other hand, having pointed it out now, i probably will remember, and mention it then, and just look silly now. ah well. perhaps i'll do something commemorative for the occasion. a total site redesign! right. um, other suggestions welcome.
thanks folks, and good night!