A Link to the Copypast

Below follows a blog entry I wrote on Gaia Online in 2007. I recently found it again and I thought it was sort of cute - it might perhaps say something about how I've changed over the past four years.

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This is a blog.
You heard me. A blog is a blog is a blog is a blog is a blog, as Gertrude Stein said it, and she probably meant something by it, too. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas might be one of the more interesting pairs in the history of authors, though I doubt it, since it seems authors are so often good friends. I mean, many awesome authors knew each other - F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Kurt Gödel and Albert Einstein, and so on. They did write books on science, so they are authors. And were friends. Before they died - maybe afterwards too, I do not know.

Friendship is defined by Wikipedia as co-operative and supportive behaviour between two or more humans. Humans differ from dwarves and elves in that they have no racial modifiers to ability scores, and gain one bonus feat and one extra skill point per level. One extra skill point per level is very useful, and many people actually favourise playing humans over other races simply for game-mechanical reasons; they're so much more versatile, whereas optimising other races requires specialisation - with the possible exception of dwarves. Yes, I would have to say, game-mechanically humans and dwarves are definitely preferrable.

Terry Pratchett never used the plural form "dwarves", only "dwarfs". I don't know why He did that, maybe there was a point to it. Note that I just now accidentally depressed shift and capitalized "He". If this isn't some sort of keyboard Freudian slip, it's probably just a typo. Nonetheless, this typo makes it seem as though Terry Pratchett is some sort of deity or god. He's not. When submissivies in a Dominance/submission-relationship refer to their dominator, they also use capitalisation, as in He. Terry Pratchett does not dominate me, though he owns, in the modern descriptive-of-skills meaning of the term.

Dominance/submission is a fetish, much less physical and more psychological than other branches of BDSM. For this reason, it requires much more acting skills and also much more trust between the involved parts, since anyone can spank a woman but only a select few can expose her to psychological "torture" without any real imminent danger. Torture was invented by the Japanese as a means to cook fish, but it wasn't entirely successful; the Japanese nobility, known as Vicomtes, took to the dish with heart - but since this was in 1532, Jonas Salk and his army of sparks invaded Prussia, stealing with them the secret to immortal life and twelve oven mitts that belonged to Federico de Soya. This caused tortured fish to be largely forgotten as food.

Food is necessary for human survival, and for that of most other animals. Wikipedia defines it as "any substance, usually composed primarily of carbohydrates, fats, water and/or proteins, that can be eaten or drunk by an animal or human being for nutrition or pleasure." Given this definition, it is a little vague whether or not chewing gum is food, since it's not technically eaten but certainly is for pleasure, unless it gets stuck in someone's hair.

That happened to a friend of mine at a festival a few weeks back, it was quite nasty. Fortunately she only needed to cut off very few strands of hair, otherwise she would've looked silly, and looking silly isn't fun, unless you're a clown. A famous Swedish comedian, speaking of clowns, is Gösta Ekman, who once starred in the absurdist comedy "Picassos Äventyr", also called "Adventures of Picasso."

I have seen this movie; all the actors were good, but aside from Ekman I especially liked Wilfrid Brambell, who played Alice B. Toklas. Alice B. Toklas was a long-standing and good friend of Gertrude Stein, who wrote that "A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose", and she probably meant something by it, too. Gertruide Stein and Alice B. Toklas might be one of the more interesting pairs in the history of authors, though I doubt it, since it seems authors are so often good friends. I mean, many awesome authors knew each other - F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Kurt Gödel and Albert Einstein, and so on. They did write books on science, so they are authors. And were friends. Before they died - maybe afterwards too, I do not know.

I hope they were friends afterwards. It would give me some hope that friendship is more than just the Wikipedia definition.