I would just like to add my friends are awesome, irreplaceable, unique individuals, whom I love. I am blessed and lucky to have known the people I do. This is concrete, and how I feel.

I don't want to let my friendships languish. I want to have healthy, vibrant, and dynamic relationships with my friends. However, it would be nice on occasion to feel wanted/needed instead of feeling like I'm imposing myself on people. I'm not sure if it's known, but I generally go way out of my way to maintain relationships with my friends. I'm fine with that, because I desire the previously stated things. It's just that sometimes I feel like the desire is mostly one sided.

What I mean by this is I desire to hang out with my friends, I desire to be there for them if they need me, I desire to enjoy there unique company. It just seems like the reverse isn't true nearly as much as I'd like it to be. I believe that all relationships like the ones I want take time and effort. I understand people are busy and have their own lives, but I just wish I could find some more like minded people who desire deep, thriving friendships.

I just want to let it be known this is a rant. I'm sure I'm just writing this because I'm lonely, tired, frustrated, and whatever. The statements above are not actually concrete, but just how I feel at the moment. I'm sure the feeling will pass.

I'd like to think that human interaction is critical to technological advancement. Not in a "efficient" way, but a "human" way. I don't want a faster life, I want a deeper, richer life. I want to be a cyborg, not a robot.

I was thinking about needs tonight. People need people! Very perceptive of me, I know. The euntrepenuar in me looks for a need to fill and how to make a living from it. I mean I might as well provide a needed service while making a living doing something that is important to me, if I can. I want to put humanity back into technology. How can technology address the increasingly distant and lonely lives we are leading?

The idea of the stranger intrigues me. Due to the sheer vastness of geographical, and cultural expanses the internet encapsulates, there are more strangers than ever. Stranger strangers even! Different from us, but with similar needs. Does the internet change the relationship we can have with strangers?

Face time is really important. Touch is really important. Trust, safety, and security are very important. How do we connect, while still protecting ourselves from an increasingly discordant world.

Another interesting thing about technology, and the internet in particular is it's permenace. On one hand you have hard drive failures and information loss. On the other hand you have viral videos, and past points of view imortalized.

I'm tired right now, so I'll end here and think on it a while.

Is the idea of man and woman outdated? I mean does it matter what it means to be a "man" or what it means to be a "woman". They are broad categories based on gender, and sex. Wouldn't it make more sense to get rid of them and talk about personality types? For instance instead of a man marrying a woman. Personality A would marry personality B. That way you could get rid of these broad, yet rigid descriptors. We could find more useful categories to place people in. I would imagine that each of the personality types would have both sexes to varying degrees.

"The Lives that Librarians Lead" Would be an interesting independent film. You could talk about how librarians are viewed, how librarianship has changed, and just get a behind the scenes peak at what goes on in a librarians life.

" Show me Lomi Lomi" Would also be an interesting independent film. You could discuss the ancient Hawaiian art of Lomi Lomi, discuss how humans are wired for touch, and see the science behind "new age" medicine.

We're are messed up about touch in this culture. I'll write more on this later.

I was going to write a post about the meaning and intent of anger. Something thoughtful, you know. But, when I went to post it my connection to the internet disconnectd for a second and the page errored. I hit back only to find a blank textfield. I was slightly pissed, but based on the text that I wrote that got erased, it was more hilarious than anything.

Love is the point!