{"id":344,"date":"2008-09-30T16:02:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T23:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/344"},"modified":"2008-10-01T06:52:19","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T13:52:19","slug":"a-snowballs-chance-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/344","title":{"rendered":"A Snowball’s Chance on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I was wrong<\/a>. The market didn\u2019t go up 900 points today; only 485. (Third largest point total gain ever.) Even dead cats can only bounce so high. Or maybe it\u2019s just waiting for official October.<\/p>\n

I woke up late this morning, but inspired. Not in recognition of the ancient new year so much as yet another new project, another \u201cchapter one\u201d for me. I plunked down my ten ethernet dollars and picked up a domain name that seemed resonant. This may yield, in short order, an incredibly prolific and time-consuming \u201cnext big thing\u201d. Or it may pan into nothing, a product of me being realistic, for once, about my time constraints and expenditures. At this point, I\u2019m squarely 50-50.<\/p>\n

If I decide not to do it, I\u2019ll at least post some of the prototype stuff somewhere on the BP. And if I decide to<\/em> do it, you won\u2019t be able to stop hearing about it for a while.<\/p>\n

These times have been labeled interesting, trying, unprecedented. Somehow, in the shuffle, we\u2019ve lost sight of the fact that it\u2019s becoming more and more obvious that there\u2019s some sort of life on Mars<\/a>. I know I\u2019ve already been over this<\/a>, but snow? Snow<\/em>?! I feel like the next article will talk about the Martian radio broadcast that some linguist in a lab is working on translating, only to be met with similar lack of fanfare in a world so self-absorbed as to believe it is alone in living at all.<\/p>\n

Maybe they\u2019ll have to cart the Mars Rover into their underground lair before we really start to see it.<\/p>\n

Maintaining a lasting feeling of relevance is difficult in a period like this. I feel as fickle as the market is volatile, as uncertain as everyone else. What inspires me in the morning seems blas\u00e9 by the afternoon. What depresses me one day seems almost okay the next. I know I have unstable moods, but this is just getting silly. Is everyone feeling this way? Is everyone\u2019s world this inconsistent, unstable, murky?<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t exactly something people are prone to sharing. Like so many widely held perceptions, people assume that it\u2019s \u201cjust me\u201d or \u201csomething only I\u2019m going through\u201d. We are trained to be independent, to be scientific, to be immune to larger growing understandings that border on the universal. We are given inoculations of isolation and uncommunicativeness from birth, in the hopes of eradicating the virus of our humanity.<\/p>\n

But there is power in the viral, a term the web has started to turn on its head. There is seemingly impossible potential in people, both alone and in groups, working toward common purpose. I would never have believed that the bailout, even if it\u2019s just a first round, could be defeated by a populous united in opposition to their politicians. Couldn\u2019t even conceive of the possibility. And now, in the face of it, it seems like anything is similarly probable. We could be on the verge of something very real.<\/p>\n

And yet I have despair, debilitation, almost no energy to get anything done. I want my recreation, rest, distraction. Once more unto a breach of working overtime on top of a day job just seems\u2026 sigh.<\/p>\n

But what if this is the one? What if the next mountain is the one we have to get over to find the valley below? What if this door is the exit?<\/p>\n

Someone show me a sign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I was wrong. The market didn\u2019t go up 900 points today; only 485. (Third largest point total gain ever.) Even dead cats can only bounce so high. Or maybe it\u2019s just waiting for official October. I woke up late this morning, but inspired. Not in recognition of the ancient new year so much as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,16,17,13],"tags":[5,59,60,57],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-politics-n-a-strife-of-interests-masquerading","category-quick-updates","category-upcoming-projects","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-politics-n-a-strife-of-interests-masquerading","tag-quick-updates","tag-upcoming-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}