In the bustle of life, one can forget even the simplest of relaxation techniques. To endure the standard ‘9-5′, it is common for the working class to employ the use of a wide variety of techniques, drugs, chemicals, books, music, etc. to relax and make themselves feel better.

Usually, their attempts are futile.

Without proper breathing, relaxing can be (read: is) impossible. Breathing, though a semi-automatic function of our bodies, is often overlooked as the most effective way of relaxation.

As described by an author at Zen Habits, six seconds is all it takes to feel AWESOME.

Give it a shot.

It’s a shame that my only post in months (really? months?) is not as full-featured as a normal article, but that will change in the future.

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This is to my cat, Lucy.

I believe you are the possibility in a thousand pieces
The unlikely question in a dream with seeds
The idea of first impressions after a perfect world starts over
A theological Apple without poison, a glimpse into the life of the wondrous.

You are the serpent, the blood, the teeth
In a society of second-takes and misconceptions
In a box with holes containing Sweet-Tarts
An illusionist only stopping to capture the attention of lovers.

You point out the questions to be answered
While inconsistently loving the soulless
While finding things to play
You find that the seeds have been planted and the dream is over.

Wingzar! is a “robotic solo project”, from where I cannot find the origins of. They have released their first EP, “What We Lack In Subtlety We Compensate For In Number Crunching” for free online from pages such as Tangled Wilderness.

Wingzar! can be considered very industrial and/or steampunk in sound. The lyrics are on the simple side, but are put to use effectively to enhance the atmosphere of the music. They have an ethereal and synthetic feel to them, which meshes with the music well. The topic of the lyrics are primarily anti-human (”kill them / kill them all”, del *.human) and of how humans oppress both nature and technology.

Taken at face-value, these lyrics seem kind of absurd. Why would anyone want to be anti-human? But I think that these are not meant to be face-value lyrics like a lot of modern bands churn out these days. Instead, you must look at them from the perspective of a robot. We are in process of making them in our image, and we have a ton of stories of robots being built to mimic us. What if they had an underground resistance? These would be the words of robotic anarchists, I believe.

It is a really neat idea, one of which I’ve thought about while pondering the life of 6067, the Technophobic Android [MySpace link alert]. Seeing as ‘he’ comes from a dystopic future where robots are highly advanced, this could quite possibly be something feasable. Mmm. Brain food.

…ouch.

Seriously though, today I saw a spider that looked a bit like one of those head humpers from Half-Life, of which I have taken a picture of (see to the picture to the right). Contrary to belief, however, this is not a head crab! It is, in fact, just a spider. A pretty decent sized one too. The picture to the right is the spider at different zooms of my camera (I was kind of playing around with it). It is most likely a common house spider, but I am no arachnologist.

On a totally unrelated topic, I have completed the basic functionality of ToriStats, a Facebook application I am writing to show off and share your Toribash score with others. This has not been a very hard endeavor so far, but has surely taught me the essentials of object oriented programming (and my does it save in coding time!), as well as showing me just how nicely JSON delivers data.

In the coming weeks I will make the application available for any and all Toribashians who use Facebook. If you have any ideas regarding this or future Facebook applications that you would like to see, feel free to let me know! I can promise that I will at least consider them.