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I was walking by a cemetary today on the way home from work. It got me thinking. I now know what I want when I die. Its a little wierd. Then again, I’m not completely normal.

I’ve decided when I die, I want part of the flesh cut of my leg and a metal plate embedded into the bone with my name and birth and death dates. Then i want to be placed in a funeral pyre with the gifts from my loved ones. I’m not talking creamation, I want my bones to survive. Then I want my bones and the remains of the gifts put in a coffin. With me in the coffin will be a time capsule with a recording of me and some documents about who I was. That way future civilizations can benefit from my wierdness.

Listening to Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love.

I was thinking today. While I’m not a sports fan, I think the Nintendo DS could be a good system for certain sports genres. Imagine a game like football that doesn’t use the touch features of the DS until you pick your play. With the DS you could actually draw your own plays. Then you could play the game like any other football game.

Another idea would include a web browser cartridge that connects to a wifi (802.11) network and you can surf the net and use the stylus like one would a mouse. Would be cool to have Mozilla DS. I hear they are actually working on something like this though.

I’m going to get a DS eventually. Then I’ll give or sell my Gameboy Advance to my sister. My only problem is the fact it wont play Gameboy or Gameboy color games. I’ll have to pick up a Gameboy Color to play my old games. Who knows maybe somewhere down the line someone will make an adapter to play them on the DS.

Since my VCR doesn’t seem to work for recording, I rely on my co-workers to tell me whats happening on Star Trek: Enterprise. And from what I hear, none of what I hear about whats going on in the series actually happened based on what I hear on the other series’. I can only assume Star Trek: Enterprise takes place in the alternate universe, the “Mirror universe” if you will. The attack on earth and the fact the Vulcans aren’t the ones we are familiar with on other Star Treks could explain some of why the “Mirror Universe” with the I.S.S. Enterprise from the original series episode “Mirror, Mirror” is so brutal and warlike. The Vulcans on Enterprise believe Mind Melds are wrong and they believe that the Katra (The Vulcan equivilent of a soul) can’t be transfered to another (as shown in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn, Where Spock transfers his Katra to Bones before dying.). Only a small movement on Vulcan actually believes in Katras being able to be placed in anothers body. If this is truely the dirrection they are going, it could get intresting to find out how the “Mirror Universe” got so brutal.

Marvel has a comic character named Vision. This Avengers member has an ability Marvel has incorrectly labeled as intangibility. According to Dictionary.com, the definition of the word is: 1. Incapable of being perceived by the senses. 2. Incapable of being realized or defined. 3. Incorporeal. But Vision’s power is density control. He can be hard as diamond or pass through matter. This got me thinking.

If light has mass, wouldn’t light go right through an “intangible” person. That would effectively render them invisible and blind. Wouldn’t it? I mean light wouldn’t bounce off them to be reflected back to our eyes. And they would be blind because reflected light would pass right through their eyes.

One could go one step further and ask if they would still exist at this point. Unless they did have a way to become solid again, light wouldn’t touch them. So would they exist anymore?

Theres something for you to think about today while you’re clubbing seals, or whatever you do in your spare time.

A friend brought up the topics of the end of the world and nuclear weapons and such. This got me thinking about the end of the world myths. Heres my opinion on the norse ragnarok.

Ragnarok “Doom of the Gods”, also called Gotterdammerung, means the end of the cosmos in Norse mythology. It will be preceded by Fimbulvetr, the winter of winters. Three such winters will follow each other with no summers in between.

To me that sounds like some kind of nuclear winter.

Conflicts and feuds will break out, even between families, and all morality will disappear. This is the beginning of the end. The wolf Skoll will finally devour the sun, and his brother Hati will eat the moon, plunging the earth darkness.

Sounds like darkness caused by either ash from an asteroid impact or the debris from a nuclear blast.

The stars will vanish from the sky. The cock Fjalar will crow to the giants and the golden cock Gullinkambi will crow to the gods. A third cock will raise the dead. The earth will shudder with earthquakes, and every bond and fetter will burst, freeing the terrible wolf Fenrir.

Impact of an asteroid or nuclear blast.

The sea will rear up because Jormungand, the Midgard Serpent, is twisting and writhing in fury as he makes his way toward the land.

Melting of the polar ice caps because of the ash of debris holding in the Earths heat.

With every breath, Jormungand will stain the soil and the sky with his poison.

The air and ground with lots of ash or radiation.

The waves caused by the serpent’s emerging will set free the ship Naglfar, and with the giant Hymir as their commander, the giants will sail towards the battlefield. From the realm of the dead a second ship will set sail, and this ship carries the inhabitants of hell, with Loki as their helmsman. The fire giants, led by the giant Surt, will leave Muspell in the south to join against the gods. Surt, carrying a sword that blazes like the sun itself, will scorch the earth.

Sounds to me like the flash caused by nuclear explosion.

Meanwhile, Heimdall will sound his horn, calling the sons of Odin and the heroes to the battlefield. From all the corners of the world, gods, giants, dwarves, demons and elves will ride towards the huge plain of Vigrid “battle shaker” where the last battle will be fought. Odin will engage Fenrir in battle, and Thor will attack Jormungand. Thor will victorious, but the serpent’s poison will gradually kill the god of thunder. Surt will seek out the swordless Freyr, who will quickly succumb to the giant. The one-handed Tyr will fight the monstrous hound Garm and they will kill each other. Loki and Heimdall, age-old enemies, will meet for a final time, and neither will survive their encounter. The fight between Odin and Fenrir will rage for a long time, but finally Fenrir will seize Odin and swallow him. Odin’s son Vidar will at once leap towards the wolf and kill him with his bare hands, ripping the wolf’s jaws apart. Then Surt will fling fire in every direction. The nine worlds will burn, and friends and foes alike will perish. The earth will sink into the sea.

Fire similar to the one that’s said to have covered the Earth with the asteroid that caused the dinosaurs to become extinct.

After the destruction, a new and idyllic world will arise from the sea and will be filled with abundant supplies. Some of the gods will survive, others will be reborn. Wickedness and misery will no longer exist and gods and men will live happily together. The descendants of Lif and Lifthrasir will inhabit this earth.

The survivors of the war or astreroid impact.