I have five different clocks in my room. One is beside my bed and it also doubles as a CD player and radio. The alarm on that one is set for 8:25, and plays The W’s when it turns on. It’s also 8 minutes fast. The second is on a shelf next to my bedside table, that I have to actually get up to hit the snooze button on, and the alarm is a loud buzzing noise, it goes off at 6:15 and then every nine minutes until 6:51 when I stop hitting the snooze button and actually get up. Continuing around my room, on my desk there is a children’s clock radio that the radio no longer works on. It’s constantly thirty minutes behind, because one day the power went out and I never bothered to reset it, because it was pretty close to the real time anyway. It doesn’t have an alarm set on it. On top of my television I keep my watch when I’m not wearing it, and it’s alarm is set to go off at 9:51 every morning to remind me that I need to go to class. The final clock actually tells time with a modified binary, each digit is represented by a column of red LEDs with on representing a one and off representing zero. No alarm on this clock, but it’s still fun to look at, because sometimes the time also makes a neat design.

The following paragraph is being put into my blog, because Micah requested that I write up a paragraph about my philosophy that violence can solve anything.

Many years ago I was told to never take anything for granted. I also was told by many people that violence never solves anything. Buy putting these two seemingly innocent phrases together I came to the conclusion that violence can actually solve problems. I decided to put my theory to the test by trying to come up with an example in which violence wasn’t a possible solution. I started small, with a problem that I often face: mismatched socks. There are multiple ways that violence can solve the problem of mismatched socks, for one you could set fire to the socks, thus leaving you with to nearly identical piles of ash. Some people would argue that this wasn’t a viable solution because you are left without any socks, but instead of burning your current socks, one could shoot someone with matching socks and then take the socks from the shot person, and then you not only have matching socks, but you have two extra ones that can be used for a puppet show on racial equality. Having proved one extreme, I then decided to tackle the big one, international disputes. Just the threat of violence can keep many of these disputes from happening, just threaten to nuke any countries caught arguing. Either people will learn to handle disagreements very quickly and carefully or there won’t be any country left for them to argue from. And even if people continue to fight just continue with the nuking, after enough of this, there won’t be anybody left at all to argue. These are just two examples of how to solve problems with violence, but if you really think about it, anything can be solved with violence.
  ¶ 4/24/2004 11:50:00 PM