Chapter CXX: What Are We Thinking About Today?

Male models, warm clothes, and the color gray.

Chapter CXIX: A Boy and His Car

I have a hate-hate relationship with my car. A hate-hate relationship is like a love-hate relationship, except we both hate each other. All the time.

Glove compartment: doesn't open.
Right front tire: no rims, kind of flat
Rear view mirror: falls off at inopportune moments
Air bags: nonexistent
CD Player: doesn't work, makes terrible grinding noises
Radio: Antenna is stuck, vibrates the car as it tries to extend, like an earthworm wriggling toward the surface during a storm.

All this is to say nothing of the alignment and suspension. To tell the truth, I don't really know what "alignment" and "suspension" are, but it's safe to bet that they're screwed up on my car.

Chapter CXVIII: Amellus Quadra

Everyone with a Facebook profile should add the Purple Square application. You might say, "Oh, but Jerry, the Purple Square doesn't DO anything! It just sits there, ugly and totally useless!"

The underlying assumption of that statement is that other Facebook apps ARE useful, but this is the very attitude that Purple Square calls into question. Do your interactions with (Fluff)Friends or SuperPoke! actually mean anything? Do you really need "Free Gifts"? Didn't Facebook work fine without them? Fundamentally, aren't ALL Facebook applications just "purple squares?"

For that matter, didn't PEOPLE work fine without FACEBOOK? Herein lies the essential significance of the purple square--as a postmodern commentary on the role of technology in modern America. In the end, Facebook, MySpace, and all the others, are just giant purple squares: distracting for the moment, but ultimately inert. It reminds us what it means to be human, and that real relationships transcend electronic mediation.

Chapter CXVII: Fractal Disorder

No Begin-
nings, only Endings
That never
End
;

Chapter CXXII: Country Codes

Jokes I thought of during Computer Graphics lab

Q. Which country has the most most sick people?
A. Germ-any.

Q. Which country has the largest breasts?
A. Bra-zil.

Q. Which country has the most pirates?
A. Arrr-gentina.

Q. Which country is the most capable?
A. Can-ada.

Q. Which country is most concerned about metaphysics and the nature of existence?
A. Is-real?

Q. Which country has the most Chinese people?
A. ...China.