Yeah, I've been busy being an absolute nerd and complete geek seeing 3D printers, watching a friend weld, and struggling through trying to use twitter for my robotics team. Okay so you're tired of hearing me talk about silly little things that chuck fribees at you at 4000 revolutions per minute. Just you wait... when I'm ruling the world and my awesome "chunk of metal" can do cool stuff that's absolutely incredible. You'll thanks me. Admit it. Okay so I don't really want to rule the world with frisbees, but I thought you might have want to hear from one of my many imaginary me's. Can you imagine a world with no trees all metal machinery and smog that makes you choke? Sure there's people out there that are looking into the clean energy. The green alternatives. I'm not trying to discount anyone because boy are you guys out there are doing great work.
Do you ever hear though little thoughts in your brain conversing with each other saying things like. "I wonder how many feet of duct tape it would take to stick your sibling to your ceiling?" Or "How many licks would it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center?" in that video on youtube. Or what about "What can I do with his massive bag of zip ties and jell-o?" If not, then I say you aren't a prankster. Live a little! Within reason of course. Come on. Surely you've pranked someone at a camp, club, at school (if you go to one), or some other gathering of people. If not, perhaps you've been on the other end of the pranking. If so I'm sorry. We do it in good cheer, the one's who are good spirited jokers.
But it seems as though avenging can go... shall we say too far. I mean people end up dead. I'm reading Romeo and Juliet and there's lots of avenging going on. I think that pranking back, so long as lives aren't in danger, is perfectly fine. You also can't cause permanent damage either. The prank has to be looked back at with a laugh later on in life. People get stomped on all the time but they don't ever prank back. Stand up! You can do it. But I warn you. Once you're into this pranking thing step carefully. There are people like my friend Matthew who will take your prank, laugh, look carefully at the design, and then prank you back worse than you could ever imagine. Go and live! So:
"do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am — a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards." --- Edward Abbey
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