After about a year of off and on reading, I finally finished this book. I liked it very much, and I do recommend it to anyone. The unique language used in it may turn dome off, but dictionaries for it are available online if the book itself does not contain one.

It was interesting to see how the lack of choices affected Alex. He could not choose evil, so he choose good, yet this "good" was so very shallow. It is not what he truly was, and the treatments truly deprived him of humanity. The right to choose is a major part of what we as a society consider human, which can be seen in the importance our society places on, for example, voting. Here in America a major Presidential election is on the horizon (as you all know, American or not), and the headlines of "Decision '08" can be seen on many news stations. If we could not choose things or decide things for ourselves, the state Alex was reduced to, we truly cease to be human, we become demoralized, an idea used for control in totalitarianist states, such as North Korea.

Next on my list is George Orwell's 1984.

Today I reached 10,000 profile views. Thank you to the many people of this site who took time out of their lives to view my humble little profile here. :P

Not freeze. Seriously. Nothing is more annoying than a game that freezes. It happens less in newer games but still happens way more than it should, which is not at all.

Dammit, I just lost an hour's progress in Morrowind because of a freeze. Damn.

Man this was bad. I can't believe it still... So what happened was, my friend had a white stain on his shirt, which was rather noticable. So I point it out...

Me: Hey, what is that stain white stain on your shirt?

Friend: Oh, it happened last night.

Me: :lol:

It turned out to be toothpaste, but still. Wow. I won't even blame any of you if you don't find it funny, its probably just one of those "had to be there" things.

Happy February 29! I know in some places it isn't 2/29 anymore, but still, this day happens less often than Christmas, so its worth mentioning. I mean, it only occurs once every four years! (That is, except for years evenly divisible by 100, as they are not leap years, unless they are also evenly divisible by 400). I feel bad for anyone born today, their birthday will be rather confusing.

Lets Party! :P

My junior class lost monry on a fundraiser, something along the lines of $300. I find that hillarious. How the **** do you lose $300 on a fundraiser? Talk about poor management...

I still have a hard tme believing that...

.999999999.... (going on forever) is equal to 1. I know it is, the proofs are there, Such as..

1/3 + 2/3 = 1

1/3 = .33333....

2/3= .666666....

.66666.... + .3333..... = .999999....

So .99999.... = 1

But I still can't wrap my brain around it for some reason.

Wow, I just noticed I have a new emblem in my profile!

Kinda cool looking, if I do say so myself.... :P

I finished reading this book this morning. Overall, it was very good. Aldous Huxley did an amazing job of creating a whole new world where people are in a sense always happy, but also in a way they are not human. They live in a Utopia of sorts but the place Huxley created is not a place I would want to live in, where people are conditioned throughout their childhood to meet the social patterns of the Utopia. Free will seems virtually nonexistent, and those who are too intelligent are sent away to preserve society's stability. People are made to be more or less mentally apt to meet a certain job, the stupid ones operating elevators and the smart ones writing propaganda.

I wonder if socialism ever took hold if society would end up similar to this. Obviously, we don't have some for the technology Huxley describes in his novel, but would we become the mindless slaves that roam throughout Brave New World? Would we be pawns to preserve a superficial happiness, to ensure stability, when at times, it is instability that reminds us that we are human?

Overall, I recommend the book to anyone. it is thought provoking, and a good story overall.

Time to get back into A Clockwork Orange.....

I finally got that damn scholar achievement in Mass Effect. that's probably due to the fact I skip through most conversations, missing the "investigate" options.

Oh, and I'm blowing right through Morrowind. I'm like level 40 with most guilds half done already, but this is probably due to the fact I already know where everything is. ;)