{ 2008.06.05 }
During yesterday’s impromptu quasi-religious philosophical discussion, I proposed the question to a fellow: “Is it serious? Do you think that this, the universe, is serious?” Many people are uncomfortable with this question, perhaps because they’ve never considered it. I would venture to say that most people automatically assume that the answer to the question is “yes,” as it’s an ingrained part of our Western culture and heritage. Life is supposed to be serious business. I tend to think the contrary, however, but I gather that the true answer is probably “neither and both.”
Also, Thunderbird with the GMailUI extension and GMail IMAP is absolutely brilliant. Couple that with lots of Ubuntu hacking in the past couple of days. Extensive use of Vim, however, has lead to the habit of wanting to use Vim navigation and shortcuts everywhere, including the text box where I write this very note. Fortunately there is a Firefox extension for that sort of thing. Now, if only I could move myself using H, J, K and L …