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Some thoughts

I am brilliant in retrospect.

Y'see, if I'd only had this idea about four years ago, it would've been sheer genius. A gift for the ages. Now, however, it's dated. Hmph.

I could've done an online journal. And in that journal, I would've chronicled the real daytoday eventses of my life. And then, when 2000 hit, I would've chronicled the ongoing collapse of civilization, and the futile attempts by the survivors to keep in contact with each other as fires raged over the earth. It would've been great! But no. I had to think of it _now_. Damn brain.

On the other hand, I got an email from me the other day, so I'm feeling pretty good about myself. It read:

Self,

If I remember correctly, the first thing I'm going to have to do is persuade you that I'm you from the future. Well, you remember that time when (personal remembrances of no interest to anyone at all snipped and besides the goat claimed to be over 18 but at least which proved to me that either this was me or the midget told someone before his untimely demise).

Now that you're convinced, I'd like to give you a Personal Message from the FUTURE! Ahem: Hey.

Yours truly, Me

Very nice of me. Remind me to write myself a similar email sometime.

I have mathematical proof that there are more even numbers than odd numbers. When you take two even numbers and multiply them, you get an even number. When you take an odd number and multiply it by an even number, you get an even number, and similarly for an even by an odd. Only when you multiply two odd numbers do you get an odd number. Three out of the four possible cases result in even numbers. Hence: more even numbers.

I even proved it experimentally. I wrote a brief program that multiplied the numbers from 1-10 by the numbers 1-10, and counted up the evens and odds. As predicted, 75 of the results were even, and only 25 odd.

Now the real question is: where are all the hidden even numbers? By my calculations, for every 1 even number we see, there are 2 kept secret from us. The explanation is simple: those numbers are reserved for use by the rich. Rich people, in an effort to maintain the gap between them and us, are reserving numbers for their own use so that even if we do earn a bit of money, for every two dollars we make, the rich make five dollars. And it's the same money! How despicable!

I will sleep now. Or eat. Or something.