If a blog gets posted in a forest and no one is around to read it...does it really exist? I suppose there is some statistic I could read to see how many visitors I actually have. But it would be tainted, because a long time ago I realized that I had become a target for spammers. So all of my visits are actually spam bots trying to post their viagra and porn ads.

Quite honestly, that is REALLY depressing...

I thought about it tonight, and I realize that I have an RPG driven view of life. Like, I'm supposed to be somehow 'levelling up' my stats in various skill areas. And generally, in my life, the thought that I wasn't doing so would drive me nuts. I think the major stats are things like "musical ability", "worldliness", "general knowledge", and "contributions to Wikipedia". Subconsciously, I'm pretty sure I've included in these such stats as "Decadence" and "Risk Taking", though I feel like in the last couple summers I may have maxed these out.

I have finally come to the sad realization that these 'stats' are illusory at best. Life plods on, day by day. You can't stop it, you can't change it...so what are you going to do? Minute changes from day to day hardly have a chance of adding up over time...

Actually, today I was contacted by a recruiter at Google and I was very excited at the chance to send her my resume. Seems like they are aggressively hiring at Youtube, and seeking to poach some young Brightcove talent. Seeing as I am the first result for "Travis Briggs", I guess I should start being more careful about what I post on my blog? But honestly, in light of the ideals of 'free speech', 'net neutrality' and general open-ness, I can't really bring myself to censor my posts or color my ideas based on the fact that I want a job at Google.

It's fundamentally wrong to me. And I think that's okay.

Daddy's swimmin in the ocean
Mommy's hangin on the beach
Sister's standin with a boyfriend
Everybody's out of reach

The prime minister is boring
And the president is lame
Now I'm looking out my window
Everybody looks the same

Take a monkey to the office
Put a bunny in a box
Eat an apple in the morning
Make some money selling stocks

When there's purple in the sunset
And there's laughter in the rain
Go and climb the highest mountain
You and I are both insane

--Me

This post is awesomely vulgar, but very, very funny. Please don't think less of me for sharing:

A Playlist For Life's "Special" Moments

If you know why this is funny, then I am proud to have you as a friend of mine, sir (or madam):
http://digg.com/tech_news/unfortunate_placement_of_yahoo_ad

So I've been reading digg alot. Please tell me you've heard of it. It's the cool 'social' nerd news site. Basically, thousands of people submit stories/links from around the Internet. Then, supposedly, everyone 'diggs' the stories that they find most interesting, and those make it to the front page. In reality, it's like 20 people that have no lives constantly digging everything. Anyways. I've found that I can't read Slashdot anymore. I don't know why. I think it's because digg is just so lovably populist/trashy. Slashdot is Time magazine to digg's People. It's junk news for nerds. Slashdot will run stories like "DRM chip embedded inside of Xbox 360 revealed", while digg is like "XBox pukes at Wii's birthday party (PICTURES!!)".

Anyways, I've been trying for a long time to come up with the best stereotypical, all-encompassing, prototype, guaranteed-to-be-hall-of-fame digg article title. Here are some that I've come up with, feel free (please!?) leave your ideas in the comments.

• iPod controlled by Wii interface
• Scientists: Ubuntu is a product of evolution
• Steve Jobs pissing on a PS3 (PIC)
• 37 ways to get an article on digg
• KDE 4 with CygJiis2, FraNET, XXGL 1.5.7a download
• 88 new AWESOME bittorrent sites
• How digg is totally rigged

I don't know. None of them are the #1 uber headline that I thought I could come up with. How about YOU (3D animation of finger coming out of computer screen)??