2006-01-19 -- 10:39 p.m. What is the value of life? When I think of this verbose question my mind draws a blank. There is no force of machine in the universe that can measure the value of life. Rather then providing an answer, I’ll ask yet another question, why? Why did I ask it? The answer to this is hard, yet I think I can mange better then the first inquiry. I ask why because of something I read! Nay, of someone I know. Although I can indeed scour the internet for an English word to describe this two people, yet I am to lazy to do so. Instead I will take a much longer and more complicated approach, I’ll write it out in hundreds of words! Cali and Tony. What can I say, I like them very much. Known them for about a year or two and for some reason I can’t get over them. Two sex staved geeks in one place with the same interests. Anyone with the mental capacity of a stereotypical high school jock will have a very keen attitude and knowledge base as to h-what I am talking about. However, both these nymphomaniacs are quite intelligent and smart, they catch on pretty quickly to such things as Magic: The Gathering, X-men, Harry Pothea… ahem Potter, and anything remotely Luke Skywalker. The, what I like to call, ‘real’ world eludes them. And if they have sampled the stress’s and let downs of today’s job market then they have chosen to ignore it from the very second they met. All is fun and games, they are two of the most closed people I have ever had the distinct pleasure of knowing. They do nothing, maybe education, and even if they do achieve the American Dream of corrupt independent business practice, somehow miraculously becoming wealthy they will still only know what is directly in front of their eyes. Never knowing how large the world really is. The only impression they will understand is the eminences of ever growing Everquest diary rings and LeBlue Girl blogs. Perhaps it truly is another way to decay? To them life only has to value of each other, of each other minds, and all the sound and all the light and heat and all the time in the universe will only be an inclination to the up and coming X-box 360 release. Or perhaps an off subject, Sundance award winner. I know not the value of life, nor honestly the question that goes before it. I do know however that there is an eminence out there that is so vivid in vibration we can only fathom the mere conception of its greatness. That, on the other hand is well within my grasp. Anton