| #101: | Here is a 30-minute audio interview I did over the weekend regarding Area 51. http://bit.ly/QDdNM - Lazar, Uhouse, UFO philosophy. |
| #102: | After years of scientific study, I have determined that WORK SUCKS! My new essay: http://bit.ly/B7x3S (Kilroy Cafe #45) |
| #103: | Sober and caffeine-free for over five years! You just have to believe in yourself (not have any money to pay for it). |
| #104: | How much money do you spend on caffeine every day? Add it up! How much is that in a year? A lot less than cocaine, for sure! |
| #105: | Caffeine doesn't really give you energy. It steals it! It takes your own energy away from you and gives it back only when you shoot up. |
| #106: | Few people bother to quit caffeine because the cost is relatively low. I doesn't ruin lives or destroy health. It's just a low-level drain. |
| #107: | Is life real or a virtual reality video game? Doesn't matter. It's the only game there is, so you might as well play it. |
| #108: | Is there life after death? Irrelevant. That's another universe. You have to live this life for what it is. - #existentialism |
| #109: | The rules of life come from life itself, from what you see and experience. You don't need a god to tell you what works and what doesn't. |
| #110: | People invent a life after death to try to get themselves off the hook for their current one. |
| #111: | The American Dream: marriage, children, house, pets and a secure job to pay for it all -- i.e. total imprisonment. |
| #112: | The charming thing about Twitter is that hardly anyone is any good at it yet. |
| #113: | No one dies of TWO self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head, right? (My tweet 5/4) Gary Webb did! http://bit.ly/TttLn (thx @zcopley) |
| #114: | It seems 1% of the risks in life get 99% of the publicity. Mobilizing for these unlikely threats may distract us from the real ones. |
| #115: | Success has a way of freezing people at whatever developmental stage they were in when the success occurred. It can mean the end of growth. |
| #116: | There is nothing more destructive than excessive and unwarranted good fortune. It often sets people up for catastrophic failure later on. |
| #117: | The 20s are the narcissistic decade. The young adult is desperately trying to make his mark on the world and can't see much beyond himself. |
| #118: | Whatever you believe, do you believe it because it is right or because you are so heavily invested in it that you have to believe? |
| #119: | What makes a person "old" and inflexible is not so much the passage of time but the weight of prior investments accumulated around him. |
| #120: | Just republished a classic Kilroy essay from a year ago: "Male Sports Addiction: A Clinical Profile" http://bit.ly/d5ks7 - Is there hope? |
| #121: | Airline safety is one government regulation success story. Airlines are cutting corners every way they can, yet planes rarely crash. |
| #122: | Some drugs make you violent, but pot just robs you of initiative. The pothead would never hurt you but he rarely leaves the couch. |
| #123: | The pothead's lack of initiative is called "amotivational syndrome," which he insists doesn't exist. Know any potheads? You decide. |
| #124: | There's a fine line between love and enabling. |
| #125: | If we took all the time, attention and money now wasted on spectator sports and turned them to productive uses, think of all we could do! |
| #126: | People who are trapped usually want you to join them. They need to promote their lifestyle and beliefs to justify what they've already done. - #existentialism |
| #127: | "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you're good is like expecting a bull not to charge at you because you're vegetarian."--Unkn |
| #128: | "All comedy is tragedy, if you only look deep enough into it." -- Thomas Hardy |
| #129: | Just released a new Kilroy essay "The Fallacy of Justice" http://bit.ly/BYcA0 (Kilroy Cafe #46) Justice can't repair the past, only you can. |
| #130: | Fortune cookie say: Something you spend too much time on can be done in a much easier way, but you have to give up a lost cause first. |
| #131: | There are always easier/faster/smarter ways to do things, but you have to be open to them. Most people prefer the hard/slow/dumb ways. |
| #132: | There is no security in freedom. You have to choose one or the other. |
| #133: | The hard part about freedom is you are responsible when things go wrong. |
| #134: | Regret is such a painful emotion that people will do anything to avoid it. They'll deny history or cripple their future to make it go away. |
| #135: | "Taste Inflation" is the expansion of ones tastes and "needs" to absorb whatever resources one has. http://bit.ly/Dlxek (Kilroy Cafe #36) |
| #136: | "There's a fine line between stupid and clever." -- Spinal Tap |
| #137: | There's a fine line between sexy and stupid. |
| #138: | You can't talk people out of their bad habits. You can only defend your own boundaries when their habits intrude into your space. |
| #139: | Star Trek opens today! It's like Christmas morning: There's some anticipation but mostly I'm glad the hype is finally over. |
| #140: | "No pain, no gain" -- usually uttered by people with inflexible goals. Better: "No brain, no gain" http://bit.ly/sZUKW (Kilroy Cafe #43) |
| #141: | The pretty-boy anchor on the evening news shouldn't be called a "journalist." He's an actor reading someone else's lines. |
| #142: | Worshipping the actors in a movie is like praising your television set for the shows it receives. |
| #143: | The commercial agenda poisons everything it touches. When a speaker has something to sell, everything he says becomes suspect. |
| #144: | The relentless pressure of capitalism is to sell us things we don't need. Lost in the onslaught are truth and the things we do need. |
| #145: | Any food that is unpalatable at a certain temperature (warm ice cream, cold beef stew, etc.) probably isn't good for you anyway. |
| #146: | Cooking changes the chemical composition of some food, making it more digestible, but the temperature it is served at is irrelevant. |
| #147: | Most celebrities are empty figureheads, having accomplished little more than following someone else's script. |
| #148: | Before you praise an actor or singer, ask yourself: Did they actually write the words that came out of their mouth? |
| #149: | ...there's no end to the stupid dog tricks you can get people to perform. http://bit.ly/gMAiV (Kilroy Cafe #3) |
| #150: | Sexual attraction is such a powerful force that if you censor it and dole it out in tantalizing little bits... (cont'd) |
| #151: | For all the rock climbers, sky divers, extreme skiers and hang glider pilots who tragically died doing the sport they loved: DUH! - #danger #risk |
| #152: | Given the choice of freedom or slavery, most will choose slavery, but they call it by other names. |
| #153: | Most memorable Star Trek movie line: Spock to Kirk: "Out of the chair." |
| #154: | The new Star Trek movie gives the franchise a much needed upgrade to the 1990s. (Oh, wait, what century is this?) |
| #155: | Star Trek movie fact checking: There are no canyons in Iowa. |
| #156: | Star Trek movie fact checking: In the 23rd Century no educated human will speak English as a second language, let alone Russian as a first. |
| #157: | Star Trek movie review: Entertaining, but not memorable. I've already forgotten most of it. Spock, Scottie rock! Rest: so-so. |
| #158: | You don't need an answer to everything to lead a satisfying life. You just soldier on based on what you do know. - #existentialism |
| #159: | Star Trek fact checking: Spock's father couldn't have married his mother because the atrocity of marriage was outlawed in the 22nd Century. |
| #160: | You can't argue with placebos -- safe, effective, non-habit-forming -- except when they cost more than you earn. |
| #161: | Placebos don't heal a disease but mitigate its symptoms. Most consumer products are placebos. |
| #162: | Star Trek updated for the Y2Ks: Kirk and Spock gay-marry. They get divorced five years later and never speak to each other again. |
| #163: | The trouble with time travel and parallel universes: Pretty soon you say WTF, there's no sense in doing ANYTHING! |
| #164: | My new advice for the air traveler: "How to Sleep on an Airplane" http://bit.ly/rvr63 - You can survive the dreaded Red Eye! |
| #165: | Another nice Star Trek moment: Chekov has the con but abandons it almost immediately to address a technical problem. Clearly not a leader. |
| #166: | My latest philosophy essay: "Dark Star Duet: A Model of Dysfunctional Marriage" http://bit.ly/CSaKb (Kilroy Cafe #47) |
| #167: | We are all aliens here. One morning we woke up on this strange planet, in a body we didn't choose, living with a really bizarre family. - #existentialism |
| #168: | We all grew up in a protected environment, an artificial one, and the great trauma of life is discovering that the world works differently. - #existentialism |
| #169: | BTW: I have never seen "Lost". |
| #170: | Life is like a episode of "Lost". A lot of it doesn't make much sense, but you keep going anyway. - #existentialism |
| #171: | Thank God for delusional thinking, bad planning, alcohol and failed condoms. Without them, there might be no mothers. |
| #172: | Apologizing for the preceding non-Hallmark™ Mother's Day greeting... |
| #173: | Some of those Nigerian email scams try so hard and with such poor English that you want to give them your bank account info out of sympathy. |
| #174: | Beliefs are driven by investment. People will believe what they have to believe to defend what they have already invested in. |
| #175: | Think it's sweet that everyone in the twitterverse has "the best mom in the whole world". So where did all our issues come from? |
| #176: | Cool word: "entropy" - Unless actively maintained, every ordered system tends fall into disorder and decay. |
| #177: | The Roman Empire collapsed because of that second word: Empire. They expanded too far, beyond sustainability. A classic boom-and-bust cycle. |
| #178: | Preceding every collapse is euphoria, the feeling that we are special and can do anything and that the old rules no longer apply. |
| #179: | The young are especially vulnerable to destructive euphoria. The mature, who have been thru a few crashes, should have learned moderation. |
| #180: | NY Times (today) on "The Story of Stuff" http://bit.ly/wvObP 20-minute video on how Stuff is strangling our planet. Not so simple, though. |
| #181: | Americans' obsession with Stuff may harm the planet, but the real damage is internal - how all this excess weight drags you down personally. |
| #182: | Note to authors of Nigerian scam emails: Drop "Mr." from your name. It's a "tell" in the first 3 chars! Sample email: http://bit.ly/lkXkC |
| #183: | If you have followed Area 51, this month marks the 20-YEAR ANNIVERSARY of Bob Lazar's flying saucer claims. KLAS-TV: http://bit.ly/9KRWd |
| #184: | BTW: From the "Where Are They Now" file, our last report on Bob Lazar placed him in Michigan. My Nov. 08 blog report: http://bit.ly/TWr42 |
| #185: | Star Trek movie fact checking: In the 23rd Century, Kirk's parents didn't know his gender until he was born. See how far we've come! |
| #186: | If you are going to consider suicide, you might as well consider drastic and experimental changes short of it. You're free now, so why not? |
| #187: | Before you commit suicide, experiment with "trial suicide" first -- where you give up everything except your life. - #existentialism |
| #188: | Photos: I get all emo over emu and manic over monotremes at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. http://bit.ly/TE7bO |
| #189: | Wow! So THIS is where they keep all those missing boats and planes from the Bermuda Triangle. I can't wait to tell my... (umph!) |
| #190: | I've just been kicked out of my first country ever: Bermuda! Another feather in the cap, I'd say. http://bit.ly/DaATb |
| #191: | In Frankfurt they have REAL Customs: no bags searched and not a single question asked. |
| #192: | Cached my bag in the woods near the Frankfurt airport and now heading to the city. |
| #193: | If I were a bug I could walk upside down on the ceiling, which is pretty amazing when you think about it! |
| #194: | I pitched my tent in the forest next to the Frankfurt airport. Slept 9 hours! I think I'll stay longer next time. Need cheap WiFi though! |
| #195: | It's really disturbing to walk through a field in Germany and feel the crunch, crunch, crunch of snails under your feet. All the death! |
| #196: | Nooks and crannies. That's what Europe's good for. They got nooks and crannies like you wouldn't believe! |
| #197: | To camp at Frankfurt airport, take the tram to Terminal 2, then walk straight out, under the freeway. Woods galore! |
| #198: | The key to language survival in Europe: Speak English! Be clear and simple. Trying to speak their language only leads to confusion. |
| #199: | Passportitus: Pathological checking and rechecking of your passport, 'cuz if you don't have it you ain't goin' nowhere. |
| #200: | At the Frankfurt airport there's a full service supermarket (hiding under Terminal 1). Low prices! I could live here! |