Welcome to The Blargg's inaugural message.
The Blargg is a place for me to share my inane ramblings, tales of tragic hilarity, and poorly drawn mspaint pictures. With a little luck it will be more than a just a way for me to appease my writing urges, The Blargg will be a way for me to invite others into my world.
You'll like it in my world, we have airships.
A couple years ago I took a course called "Philosophy of Mind" in which I managed to sleep through most of the classes. Nonetheless it involved some interesting stuff.
One of things we discussed is how our entire reality is filtered through our brains. For example, there is no such thing as colour. Our eyes react to certain frequencies of electromagnetic radiation and sends a signal to our brains, which is interpreted to mean colour.
Since we only have access to our own minds, we can't know if other peoples brains are interpreting these signals the same way, so we can't presume to know what is going on in the head of anybody else.
Your best friend's perception of reality could be somewhat different from your own.
My world could be drastically different from yours.
I once ate a cheese-covered mealworm.
That wasn't relevant to anything, I just thought I'd toss it out there.
This next part is relevant, so try to stay with me.
One of my favorite video games EVAR is The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. In it you spend alot of time sailing in a boat called The King of Red Lions. If you spot a flock of seagulls circling a spot on the open sea, and you sail to that spot, a giant octopus will emerge from the depths to battle you.
"So what?" you ask. Well flocks of seagulls exhibit this behaviour in the real world as well, yet when I saw this I nudged my friend and informed him. "There's a giant Octorok over there!"
The blank stare I was met with indicated to me that there may have been something wrong with my statement.
Upon walking past a construction site my first thought was "It would be way more efficient if those construction workers used robotic mech suits to snap girders into place like k'nex."
Yesterday a traffic light was about to change from "walk" to "flashing orange hand" and I was about half a block away. So I started to run. As I did this my backpack started to bounce on my ass. To rectify this situation I pulled forward on the straps. Obviously the next course of action was to lean way forward and make "PASHOOOOOO" noises as I jetpacked through the intersection.
Did I mention I'm not twelve?
I'm 24 and a half, and I have a degree in biology.
Anyway, my point was my world is awesome. It has giant sea creatures, and robot warriors, and killer bird monsters, and you should totally join me in exploring these strange lands.
It was on a whim that I decided upon the username "Captain Ook", but I think having somewhat of nautical theme is fitting. I'm pretty sure It was a desire to explore the unknown which lead me to study the sciences.
And I'm starting to think i was born a few centuries to late/soon. As it stands the earth has been entirely mapped, and our technology won't allow us to properly explore the rest of the universe.
My childhood dream of being an astronaut died when I realized it wasn't simply driving a cool spaceship through asteroids for a few minutes before landing and exploring cool alien worlds.
Anyway, I type like a war-amps champ arthritic squirrel so this post has taken forever to write.
To sum up, The Blargg may seem like a speck in the ocean of the blogosphere, but its magical and - not unlike a TARDIS - its much bigger on the inside than the outside.
Anchors away! BlarggBlog sails today!
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