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...question of the week.

Is there any question you would like to ask the PlainGeek?

No question is too dumb or too smart. Nothing is out of bounds. Feel free to ask in anonymous form or via email. I promise to answer as thoughtfully as possible.

Flying, Floyd, and Foliage

I remember being in a literature class in school and we were discussing symbolism of one of the various classics we were reading. I glazed over (as I often did in high school) when teachers would go into long lectures about how "this" actually meant "that" and "this" is what the author actually meant when they wrote "that". I never remember any of my English teachers ever backing up any of those interpretations with any sort of facts like "the author revealed this in a later work" or anything to that degree. Many a time, during those discussions, I thought to myself, "Who the hell are these people to speculate what the hell the author was thinking when they wrote it? Maybe they meant exactly what they wrote."

How the hell did I arrive at this juncture today you ask? Well I was watching this video of the plane I want to build (see link on right) on youtube earlier this evening and hearing Pink Floyd's "Learning to Fly" in my head while I watched it. I remembered that many people think the song is about drugs when it's actually about flying an airplane. Floyd has been associated with drugs for so long that everyone thinks every song they ever wrote was about pot.

My point? Most of the time a tree is just a damn tree.

Stupid drivers.

Question of the week/month/yea....whatever.

Have you ever flicked on your turn signal to go around a curve?

Yes I have and I just saw another dude do it yesterday and was greatly relieved that I'm not the only person who's done that.

A night in the life of the Plaingeek.

Usually goes something like this...

9:00 PM. Watch pointless TV show to make me tired.

11:30 PM Get sleepy and climb in bed.

12:30 AM Still staring into darkness eyes wide open while mind runs wild thinking about everything and nothing.

12:35 AM Get frustrated and head to the back porch to have a smoke.

12:40 AM Snuff out cig and sit in silence for a few minutes while listening to the sound of the woods.

12:50 AM Realize that there is no way I can sleep until I'm absolutely exhausted.

12:51 AM Hop on computer and surf blogs and favorite sites in hopes that sleepiness will return.

1:20 AM Feel eyes get heavy again and climb back in bed.

2:00 AM Silently wish my brain had a fucking off switch and wonder why the fuck it doesn't seem to work unless it's sitting on my pillow in the dark.

2:05 AM Roll back out of bed and return to the computer to take my aggressions out on other virtual WWII pilots with insomnia.

4:53 AM Barely able to hold bloodshot eyes open and fall back into bed. Body, thankfully, overrides brains ability to maintain thought and blessed sleep comes swift.


Wash, Rinse, Repeat.
At least once per week.