I wanna get mixed up

So I have completely and utterly ignored this blog in favor of my Japanese one, shame on me. Ah well, if I were to really focus on this one I'm sure I'd rant nonstop about pointless crap. Consider my inattentiveness a gift to you all.

I just got back from a 2 week vacation back home in the Annapolis Valley. I had a great time, expect to see a ton of pics on my flickr account and my personal gallery soon.

Saw this quote on Advogato (yes, I still read it) and thought it interesting.

`On an only slightly different topic: some people are always wrong. Despite how you may instinctively react to such people, they are very, very useful. They are what we call "negative oracles". Any time a troubling question comes up -- "Should the U.S. invade a mideast nation?"; "Should we rewrite all our code in Java?"; "Should I invest in hydrogen fuel infrastructure for cars?"; "Is there a God?" -- just ask your local negative oracle's opinion, and choose the opposite. (If you don't have one, ask Ben Stein.) Negative oracles are not more useful than regular oracles, but they are overwhelmingly more common, and (even better) heavily promoted in popular media. You may think of talk radio as a cesspit, but it's really a gold mine of negative oracles.`
- via ncm@advogato