on dealing with information overload

it worries me that i get so edgy the longer i haven't blogged. i reach my maximum input increasingly quickly, and i need to jot everything down so that i can clear up space for the next few bits.

when can i get my damn upgrade?! i don't just want a memory doubler, i want an overhaul. i'm only too happy to dump the childhood memories. [if you didn't get it]

i've never seen this word in a biological context before:

Although medically the term can refer to either male gonads (testicles) or female gonads (ovaries), the vernacular, or slang use of "gonads" (or "nads") usually only refers to the testicles. The term "wedding tackle" is also acceptable.
- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

i *love* wikipedia ^_^

• a lot of being lectured today.
• i wanted to kill the kinder, the idiot academic officer who's not only remarkably uneducated and sure of himself, but offensive and in-your-face about it too.
• i got phoned by some charity organization, but even if i did verify their integrity i wouldn't be comfortable calling a 1-800 number and paying with a credit card.
• a weird creature was introduced at lunch: eggplant smothered in tchina (tehini, for the greeks). that's just plain gross, we kept expecting it to pop open and splay its tentacles.
• i finally sent off a letter to a "big boss" concerning lonely soldiers: i've been meaning to do this since before i left my previous post. i think they're a group that deserves to ride public transport for free. it SUCKS having to wear uniform to get around.
• the second lecture's shame and glory: walking in on the previous meeting when everyone else had the grace to stay outside; walking in to our meeting with plenty of oreos, and not being too embarrassed to crinkle them open.

on the shuttle home i had some interesting ideas concerning satellite warfare; i'm not certain listing them in public is a good idea, but they are to the chinese rockets what the russian pencil is to the space pen. and i already have an awesome acronym for one of the mechanisms:
L.I.C.K.

i had to wait for ru55's gf when i got back to tel aviv, so i walked into tower records after finding the vacuum cleaner i'll be purchasing on friday (what planning!).
i burned half an hour going through the "3 for 99" stacks, not finding the complete rambo series (and if i'm not buying all three, i'm not buying any), settling on other good movies, and then melting at the sight of the following:

infected mushroom - classical mushroom always wanted to own the original, it's the first time i've seen it available
a perfect circle - eMOTIVe it's pretty
ministry - houses of the mole caught my eye, then i listened to it. it made me feel sixteen again! [and that's a good thing?! what's wrong with you??]

i dropped off ru55's stuff, then met up with spot at the cafeneto for supper. aside from all our mundane shite we improved upon an idea i had this morning for a data visor.

happy independence day, america! for some reason we had fireworks in tel aviv, too. we're supposed to be the 51st state, right?

i've been back and loading / unloading for the last two hours - it takes a while to absorb all the updates and produce this crap you're reading. and sort through all my notes, of course.

i think i prefer the second version:
or

now to blow off some steam braincells.