Creepy robot and hilarious spoof (but you must watch the real one first)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww

& now the spoof

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc

trust me, they’re both worth it.

A thought on perception, 1

I think Maurice Merleau-Ponty conveys the intelligibility of history perfectly in his short but sweet The World of Perception as such:

The physics of relativity confirms that absolute and final objectivity is a mere dream by showing how each particular observation is strictly linked to the location of the observer and cannot be abstracted from this particular situation; it also rejects the notion of an absolute observer. We can no longer flatter ourselves with the idea that, in science, the exercise of a pure and unsituated intellect can allow us to gain access to an object free of all human traces, just as God would see it.

He goes on, however, to suggest that this doesn’t weaken the veracity of science or even the need for scientific research as much as curtail the dogmatism associated with the notion that only science can obtain ‘absolute and complete knowledge.’

Nada Surf : whose authority

i stumbled upon these guys while borrowing a friends car the other day…nada surf is one of those bands that i’d heard of but never truly listened to; aside from an older hit, ‘popular’. anyway, i am really digging their albums Lucky (from which this song is from) and Let Go.

writing is cathartic, right? or a moment to vent

I got a phone call today that didn’t go as i had expected. In fact, without warning my heart just dropped, lower than it has in quite sometime; then i just closed my phone, set it on the fireplace mantel and just leaned against it…

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it’s weird to be in this position: jobless, depressed all the time, walking around kind of listless. Since i’ve been here i’ve submitted over 60 resumes to only receive one interview (last friday). i mean, that’s a lot and not very many, right? as this continues i have become more apparent of my status with others. it’s not that i don’t think people care, but they stop asking. people don’t like to be around negative reminders. it’s weird, but over the last month phone calls and emails have come to a near standstill…

i guess i kind of get it. maybe not.

this is not to discount those who have cared, it just highlights those who have not — fuck, this is hard and people kind of bum me out.

i’m not sure if this is cathartic, but it’s a new post.