It's the end of the world as we know it...

Good Morning, and Happy End of Days to you all!

I hope everyone got showered and shaved and all cleaned up this morning, we gotta look our best for the end of everything.  And please, plan your outfit, I mean do you REALLY wanna be remembered as the guy who went out in a pair of khakis and a white tshirt.

End of the world, doomsday, apocalypse.  There are lots of ways to say it but there are even more ways it could happen.  Let's think about that, just a few.  The sun could supernova, rogue asteroids strike the planet, God just says "get lost", or maybe the 144,000 good people will finally go to heaven and stop knocking on our doors.  What's scary is that those are the ways where humanity can still say "I didn't do it!"  There are a lot more we can't say that with.

Let's consider some.  The greenhouse effect could turn the entire planet into a giant microwave oven.  World War 3 could turn the world into Mad Max 4 (please please no).  Some bio-engineered disease weapon gets out and kills everyone who has to breathe air.

Then there's the idea of computers taking over the planet.  I mean come on, Arnold warned us in '84 that it was gonna happen, but no, we didn't stop our tech shit, we just kept going, building, designing, making blogs like this one, and now look what happened.  We're going to be killed by humanoid shaped liquid metal things that still use old fashioned guns.

Ok, more seriously, just for a moment, instead of technology trying to kill us, imagine life without it.  Through evolution of intelligence, tools became electronics, which became computers.  They were meant to make our lives easier, but now they've made our lives dependent on them.  And I'm not saying I'm any better than you, my livelihood is programming, and my pastimes and hobbies are largely things that get plugged in.

I want you to stop and think for a second.  How many friends could you contact if you lost everything electronic this very moment.  No computers, no cellphones.  When I was in high school, I had all my friend's numbers written down, and memorized from calling them so often.  Now I just say a friend's name and my phone calls them.  I could drive to my friend's houses back then, now I use my GPS.  How many of you could see friends that live more than 15 minutes away without checking a GPS or looking up their address.

One more thing to mention.  The Mayans that everyone keeps talking about didn't say this was the end of the world, just the end of an age.  Just like so many hours ends a day, so many days ends a month, and in this case, so many years ends an age.  Everything doesn't end when you buy a new calendar each year, does it?

So go out, have a Happy New Age party today!  This is the perfect time to make a new age resolution, to make a better you.  Visit the friends you don't see often, talk to your family, or donate to charity.  This is a new beginning, not the end, so make yourself something even better than you were yesterday!

Besides, the world can't end today, I didn't get my damn Christmas presents yet....

Happy Holidays everyone!