So the other day, my roommate and I break down Zombie attacks and discussed the possibility, what we would do, how long we would survive, and if they (Zombies) were even possible. All this came from me playing a new game a good friend of mine recommended, Left 4 Dead... Check it out... Zombie blasting mayhem... Sexy!

 

Anyway, so it started off like this... If there were a Zombie Apocalypse what would we do... How would we survive (in our apartment)... How much food would we need... How would we get supplies... And we came to this conclusion, first, we would stack ALL our furniture against the door of our apartment, making the entries to our apartment become ONLY a 3 story drop from the balcony. With the proper placement, the furniture would bar the door forever (because there is a wall less than 3 feet away which would be a perfect "rock and a hard place"). We would then slow our consumption of food and water to last a week or two until we could figure out how to get out to the gun store a few blocks away and the QFC a block away. I even concocted an idea of how to use a rope and grapple system to reach the next door building to get away from our infested apartment complex (assuming we were the only survivors in our complex, it's pretty obvious our neighbors would want our "brains").

 

Personally I love the idea of zombie apocalypse because A. I'd love to test my survivability skills, B. I've always wanted to steal a really fast car and drive with no traffic whatsoever and hit things at my liege, and C. I like the idea of utter fear and being a hunter at the same time... sort of like hunting big game, except the game can either run really fast and rape and mangle your body in a disturbingly gory way or saunter at a very slow but creepy pace and eventually eat you.

 

Then the conversation of whether zombies could actually exist came around, as my roommates and I love a good intellectual battle (even though they are both much more intelligent than I and constantly prove me to be incorrect in my ideals and provide much more accurate statements and proof). So I was supporting the existing of zombies, by means of virus in the blood stream, which injects a sort of living organism into your blood which allows dead tissue and organs to "come alive". My theory uses the idea that this virus somehow is able to resuscitate the body and control the body using the brain as normal, except the brain is sort of “programmed” to do only basic instinctual actions, which basically consist of running, jumping, grabbing, eating, and other non-complex processes, mostly physical and rarely intellectual of any sort. The flaw in my theory as discussed was that the body is constantly eating and destroying itself, because of this, the “alive” human body rejuvenates itself by consuming sustenance and nutrients to “repair” the body. Because of this fact, the body of a dead person would just be rotting and dying like a dead person normally does. The object of running, jumping, walking, eating, tearing, attacking and the various other actions a zombie makes would cause a great strain on the body and thus the body would consume itself too quickly to be of great use for a long period of time. The only way this could work is if by “eating” people, the body somehow manages to replenish itself much like we do when we eat. Perhaps this virus allows insane regeneration?

 

My roommate’s theory was a worm or parasitic organism which attaches itself to your spinal column and thus controls your actions by manipulating your spinal cord and the signals from the brain to the rest of the body, sort of a “body snatcher” way of looking at it. From my point of view I said his idea was slightly difficult to fathom because these creatures would have to lay eggs or spawn other copies of it’s self and attach these to new hosts in order to spread. Which just doesn’t spread fast enough to be very zombie-like, however he made a very good point in saying “Yeah, but how creepy would it be to not know until it was too late who had a parasite.” But this struck me as a little too “Aliens-ish” with face huggers and what not.

 

How would you fare against the onslaught of undead feeders? Would you be a survivor or food? Which idea of zombie creation do you think is possible? Do you have your own idea?

My roommates and I went to breakfast... at noon. I had errands to run so we walked up the street in the gorgeous weather today and on our way back experienced both an awesome, exciting feat, but also one of controversy.

We are standing on the sidewalk, waiting to cross. All of a sudden, a man driving down Lake City Way in what looks to be an ancient Toyota Tercel hatchback, does a reverse 180 into a corner parking lot across the street where we were about to cross. This is a reverse, 30 mile per hour, anger 180 mind you... Awesome! The man, has a very angry face and is looking/yelling at the passenger, what looks to be a woman, couldn't tell if she was his wife, daughter, girlfriend, but she was not happy either.

At this point, what goes through my mind is... Wow! That was fucking awesome! (being the thrill seeker I am), I wonder what his problem is (being the question asking nerd I am), and Wow, poor woman.

He then completes his turn and RACES! (and I mean, 30-50 miles per hour) down the sidewalk and jumps back on the road... yes JUMPS. At which point, awesome becomes fucking awesome, and wow this guy is nuts is another thought running through my mind. So in the last 15 seconds, a car stunt straight out of James Bond happens in real life.

So my roommates are talking about how we should have gotten his license plate to report him. I'm saying "Fuck it, nothing we can do about it" and they get pissed. Because I'd rather turn my head and move on than report a guy to the police who probably won't get in trouble anyway.

What do you think? What would you have done?

So I tend to meet most of the people I end up dating/hanging out with online... I'm a busy guy, I work full-time, and have almost 2 hours of commute time to and from work. I also have friends who are all in relationships and don't really have any single, looking-to-go-out-and-have-single-fun lets-meet-new-people friends either. This being said, I also tend to fall for women who interests me even remotely because first off I don't meet MANY, and when I do, most of the time they don't interest me.

Now, I was talking to a person, who creepily (but not a bad thing) turns out to know my ex-gf. And I come to find, they have resorted (they being this girl and my ex) to toying with me, by having my ex talk to me channeled through this person... My question is... Is the original girl even real? I'm an over-thinker, it is what makes me such a goddamned good Nerd, I think, about EVERYTHING, numerous times, over and over, in and out, through and through. I live my life like a chess game, planning, judging, thinking about every possible outcome for every situation, which makes me a pretty good driver too. Because of this characteristic, if someone destroys the loop by throwing in a (going with the chess analogy) second player or a few random extra rooks, bishops, and queens, I cannot judge the opponent anymore... And thus I lose miserably.

So because of this whole situation, I am really not sure HOW I feel about ANYTHING right now... I'm a little disappointed in myself, why am I able to shut out and have almost no emotion for certain women but these "seemingly perfect" and interesting ones always get my mind, body, and emotions tied in a knot. Perhaps I need to work on my cold-hearted shell again, and stop letting people in. That is the correct fix to this recursive function... End the loop.

What do you think? How do you feel about online dating? What would you do if you were talking to someone and they decided to harness an external source to mess with your mind?