Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Another year...
it occured to me the other day that about three posts ago i should have celebrating my FIFTH year here at MyOtaku. FIVE FREAKIN YEARS blogging here at good ole MyO. and what do i have to show for it?

well, quite a lot actually. a host of good friends. anime, manga, music and film recommendations up the ying yang. hints and tips at this that and the other. and a whole half decade of memories.


heh. Half a Decade of blogging, on and off. when a put it like that, it seems like quite a long time. it really hasnt been though. it only seems like yesterday (or maybe a few moths back ^^;;; ) when i was pulling in about 12-15 comments A DAY, and posting regularly about the most inane and random stuff. i guess i can safely say i've lived through MyO's effective lifespan. as much as i dont particularly like it, VV is doing a pretty damned good job at keeping the Otaku community alive. heh.

im still not done though. i figured i need a project to keep me motivated and posted regularly. Through the "Golden Years" as i like to think of them, i had Chibi Darke Days to keep me busy and to share with the Global Otaku Community. Whilst i dont really have time now to think up and create a full time comic strip here any more, thats not the only thing im good at. ^^

on and off throughout the last few years i like to think i've written some really good articles or editorials or some insightful observations about the world at large. and so i unvail my next MyOtaku Project...


100 SUBJECTS.

there was this thing going around D.A for a little while called the 100 Pictures Challenge. basically you had to write down 100 random words and draw a picture for each one. and so im going to do the same, except im going to write down 100 subjects and write my thoughts and feelings about each one, doing one subject per post, and ergo giving me 100 posts to write. should keep me busy, no?


anyway, i havent decided on 100 subjects yet, but if you have any suggestions or anything you want me to write about, nows ya chance. you can submit as many or as little topics as you like.





anyways, now to the local news...


i got Luna back from the shop yesterday. She's all tuned up and fixed up and working again. yay! now i just gotta await her tax disc to arrive and the roads once more belong to me!! ha ha.
It's funny, cuz she needed new shock absorbers for the rear wheel, and now she's got them, they're the shiniest part on her! ha ha! it got me thinking though, how much of a machine can you replace until its still the same machine you started off with...

for example, to date i have had to replace Luna's rear tyre, front panel, rear shocks, her spark plugs, her air filter and her head-light bulb. not a lot, i know. she's still the same bike, she has the same engine and same chassis. but if i held onto her for a long time, and had to replace more parts, when would be the point where she wouldn't be Luna anymore? When i replaced her engine? When i replaced her chassis? (although replacing her entire chassis would be an extreme move.. ^^;;; )
i mean, when you get a Heart Transplant, which is arguably the body's powerplant, you're still you. just with a different heart. ok ok, so nobody has ever undergone a brain transplant, and there is no equivalent "brain" part in a motor scooter and this is all really just a flight of fancy, but think of this...

Every cell in the Human Body is constantly dying and being replaced. it's just a fact of life. i can't remember the exact time frame, but it happens repeatedly over the natural life span... your entire body gets replaced. The person you are now has no remaining cells from the person you were, say, seven years ago. But you're still you. Because the process happens over time, gradually and not instantaneously, you retain your memories, your skills, your personality. what makes up you remains, the software if you will, even though the hardware has been totally replaced.


of course this all boils down to the debate about the existance of the Immortal Soul, the indefinable element, the "I" in Human BeIng. Whether it exits physically in the body (and if so where, and where does it go after we die?) or whether it exists elsewhere, unknown and unseen but still real.


i know, in the "real world" i cant compare scooters to humans. i cant compare anything mechanical to the glory and splendour that it homo sapiens. that postulating about the existance of the Ghost in the Machine, particularly in one that is purely analogue with no trace of digital awareness, is pure fallacy.

but i like to wonder. Where is Luna's soul? and sometimes...just sometimes...is it more real than my own?









heh...i guess we can call that Subject Zero in our 100 subjects List. i'll be posting this on VV too, just to see if it makes any difference.



other news this week, i bought a bunch of plastic shelving units for my room, and have now removed all manga and anime from my floor! yay! so that makes me happy.

today i have to go and recieve some booster shots for some innoculations i got two years ago. It's been a while since somebody stuck a needle in my arm, so that should be fun... -_-;;;


and thats it from me today. i'd like to leave you with this last thought...





till next time!
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