Thought of the Day

Now that I have been through Hell, I know that I really belong to Heaven ...

Nice Dreams...

Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times. The paths fork and divide. With each step you take through Destiny's garden you make a choice, and every choice determines future paths. However, at the end of a lifetime of walking you might look back, and see only one path stretching out behind you; or look ahead, and see only darkness. Sometimes you dream about the paths of Destiny, and speculate to no purpose. Dream about the paths you took and the paths you didn't take... The paths diverge, and branch and reconnect, some say not even Destiny himself truly knows where any way will take you, where each twist and turn will lead. But even if Destiny could tell you, he will not. Destiny holds his secrets. The garden of Destiny... You would know if you saw it. After all you will wander it until you die, Or beyond. For the paths are long, and even in death there is no ending to them.
Destiny of the Endless is the only one who understand the garden's peculiar geography, distinct from time and space, where the potential becomes the actual. Destiny knows. The book he carries is as much a guide to he garden as it is to the minutiae of future-past. Destiny has no path of his own. He makes no decisions, picks no branching ways. His way is laid out, drawn and defined, from the beginning of time to the end of everything.


(Neil Gaiman: Sandman)

Blur in Hyde Park (next July)

Me and my friends are the luckiest bastards ever from all the luckiest bastards who walked on the face of the Earth cause we have 3 tickets to Blur's next show July the 2nd in Hyde Park. This is a sudden change in the list of my most precious possessions, it reached Nr 1. in just 2 seconds ... and I doubt anything will top that :)

Update: The tickets fell to second place, what a surprise, it seems that my copy of Sandman, (Absolute Edition) is signed :) ,and I did not even knew about it ...

Ernold Same

Ernold Same awoke from the same dream
In the same bed
At the same time
Looked in the same mirror
Made the same frown
And felt the same way as he did every day
Then Ernold Same caught the same train
At the same station
Sat in the same seat
With the same nasty stain
Next to same old what's-his-name
On his way to the same place
With the same name
To do the same thing
Again and again and again
Poor old Ernold Same

Oh, Ernold Same
His world stays the same
Today will always be tomorrow
Poor old Ernold Same
He's getting that feeling once again
Nothing will change tomorrow

War, War never changes

A couple of years after a significant period of day by day Counter Strike I decided that gaming is really a waste of time and I shouldn't spend my short life chasing pixels on the screen cause the world is really full of more exciting things to do and experience. It seems that there are a couple of exceptions to this rule like for instance Fallout. For those few who did not play it or heard about it Fallout is a role playing which among many of us has a cult status. The story is simple, the world was destroyed by a nuclear war, the few survivors face a hostile radiated dead landscape full of mutant monsters. Law is non-existent, slavery, violence are on the order on the day. All this is pretty standard Mad Max stuff but of course with a twist. The game is full of Catch 22 & Dr Strangelove style gags which show you the sheer stupidity of war and military mindset. I remember playing Fallout 2 which is about a mission to find a device called G.E.C.K. the Garden of Eden Construction Kit which is a super-secret military device to restore life to a lifeless post-apocalyptic landscape.

To make the long story short I got hooked up again which means less hours of sleep red eyes and so on. This shiny new 3D version of Fallout is not as good as the prior versions, but it's a decent game. I guess I got about three more days till I will save the planet, kill the evil bastards and get the girl. So anyone who would like to do such things I can really much recommend this stuff but it will cost you about a week of your precious time.