Mic Check

I just got a new microphone and managed to get Skype working. I say managed because this wasn't my first time and though I'm sure it's normally a simple bit to do I had trouble. I don't really know who I can talk to yet. My Mom, maybe, if she can get a mic setup. My Dad would probably have a time with it though and so I'll stick to the phone with him. Mainly, I'm hoping to talk with my cousins.

My aunt's kids are getting older and once their in the double digits I won't be cool for awhile. At least for 6 or 7 years while they figure out their place in the scheme of things. To them I'll be old, the same thing as high-functioning furniture. I could be the cool, older cousin my brother probably is but I'd be hard not to see through. I'd try and impart too much and just be the nerd I am.

[Me and Joshua on a day out]

ME: So take that movie, right, and imagine twelve others like it but a little bit different. Some are funnier and some are scarier but they're pretty much the same. And you choose the scariest one. Now if I make twelve more movies as scary as that one, and some are even still scarier and some are just a little bit funny, and you pick the scariest one again... How scary would that movie be?

JOSHUA: Pretty scary.

ME: Yeah. But keep doing that. On and on. You'd keep getting the scariest movies ever. That's how evolution works. Say, you picked the funniest movie first, and made more of those movies and then picked the funniest one out of the next batch, and on and on. Then you'd probably have a pretty funny movie right?

Joshua: So we can see the R movie?

ME: No, no. But isn't that amazing?

JOSHUA: ........

When they get older they'll appreciate how smart I am. For now, I'm living in Japan so that affords all the wow-points I need. I don't have a camera either so they won't be able to see how sad my apartment looks. I might even be able to convince them there's ninjas outside or something but they're smart. They'd probably counter that you don't see ninjas.

I'd also like to get back in touch with some friends that I haven't spoken too in *gasp* years. Namely Ryan. I know he's probably doing well and that things would fall back into place quickly if we got to talking but it's still nice to hear how people are. How is the UK anyway?'