Tomorrow's Forecast Shows That There's A Chance For Extra Salt In Your Breakfast.

Tomorrow's forecast shows that there's a chance for extra salt in your breakfast.

Today is Easter and tomorrow is April Fools Day. How did the second best and second worst holidays get put together like this?

Speaking of which, I hope you had a good Norther - um, Easter (I always get those mixed up) - and that it was filled with candy and bunnies. Not the other stuff that the holiday's actually about, though. That doesn't exist, right? Right?

Also, good luck keeping on your toes tomorrow from unexpected pranks. Always check the top of your salt shaker to make sure it isn't unscrewed. And make sure to Google a site and get a site preview when going in to make sure they didn't do something dumb.

Presented Without Commentary: Mario Goes Too Far

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?

Um... what?

I assume this is a question that every "new" blog gets asked (it is tumblrbot, after all), but... um... how the heck do I answer this?

Inanimate objects? It's a very broad category. I'm not very good at answering general questions, because that means that there's a lot of factors to consider. For one, I interact with a good many inanimate objects on a daily basis. Each of those has different functions that I can't compare to each other.

I guess I could say my 3DS, but it's more animate than some of the people I deal with. I also happen to like doors - which is especially random for me - as these objects have very useful functions as both portals and barricades. I could even say my laptop, but it's sort of falling apart on me and I need a new one.

Something I'm sure that tumblrbot would appreciate, though, is that most of the objects that come to mind when this question is asked are electronics. And that's probably my best answer.

F1RST P0ST

[A group of people enter the room.]

WillWare: Oh, hey! This is my new blog thing that I'm working on.

Person 1: That's cool!

Smart Alex: "New"? Like your theme isn't?

Person 2: What's it about?

WillWare: A number of things, actually. I'll post about music, video games, art, philosophy and religion, whatever cool stuff I find, smart things, and my life at *location* School for Math, Science, and the Arts, which will soon change to college.

Person 2: *location*?

WillWare: I'd rather not give away my age or location. Stalkers.

Smart Alex: I think your blog is having a bit of an identity crisis.

WillWare: It's a little bit of everything, to be sure. I hope I can keep it organized. I've never done this "blogging" thing before.

Smart Alex: I can tell.

Person 1: Oh, be nice. He's new.

Person 2: How often will you be updating this?

WillWare: I'm hoping for about once every day or two. School is taxing, though.

Person 1: Which is why you're making this over Thanksgiving Break?

WillWare: Yep. Except my school seems to believe that "break" = "pile on more homework", so even this is a stretch.

Smart Alex: So is the blog itself.

Person 2: Just shut up. So, what are your hobbies?

WillWare: Pretty much everything I've listed already...

Person 1: That's honestly not much.

WillWare: Even within my hobbies I'm pretty closed-minded. I listen almost exclusively to Christian and video game music - mostly the latter - and I play mostly Nintendo, Sega, and indie games. But within those restrictions I'm open to anything - heavy metal to orchestra, brick breakers to platformers.

Person 1: I just noticed... what's with the name of your blog?

WillWare: I'm a CS guy.

Person 1: Ah.

Smart Alex: Would you say you're a "good" coder or a "great" one?

WillWare: ..."Good." Why?

Smart Alex: It's said that good coders are failing in one subject, while great coders are failing in all of their subjects and dropping out.

WillWare: Well, I failed both halves of American History last year...

Smart Alex: Yep.

WillWare: But I got an A on the first half over the summer. Even so, I'm wary about my grades in social studies courses.

Person 2: Speaking of which, what's your homework over the week?

WillWare: ...It's mostly in Religions of Asia, my SS class this semester.

Person 1: Then you might want to get to that!

WillWare: Yeah, I probably should. See you guys!

Person 1, Person 2, Smart Alex: Bye!

[Exeunt.]

If I promise "special" questions, will you be more active on your blog?

If that's what you've been looking for, I can't help that QUITE as much as I would hope to. I do have a constant barrage of schoolwork that I need to get done, and that sorta gets in the way of me doing anything else (including keeping up my blog here). I try to update when I find something interesting and have time to share it. For example, I already have something I want to post sometime today, but when I'll post it is beyond me. I'm currently supposed to be doing school right now anyway.In short, I'll post when I can - special questions or not.

Where is everyone?

My father recently asked a question that I thought was really interesting: Where are the philosophers of our day? You don't hear of any new Plato or Aristotle enlightening the world anymore. It got me thinking, and I think I managed to come up with an answer... several answers, actually. I found that more than a few of our best minds are in different places than before. Here's my take on where they can be found:

Where are our fine artists?

DeviantART, left to be unknown but by a few people. In the video game industry, turning gaming into an art form. Designing operating systems that function like magic. Still painting, but less so; more creating on Photoshop and sharing their work on the Internet. Physical mediums have become but sketches for the new kind of artist.

Where are our religious leaders?

Catering to the masses. If successful, becoming the next new Billy/Franklin Graham. Possibly, writing books. Otherwise left to the obscurity of their own church that they pastor. I can't speak for other religions, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were the same thing.

Where are our free thinkers, the ones who push against societal norms?

Once fighting for civil rights, they now support ideals such as LGBT and Coexist.

Where are our great mathematicians?

Universities, as professors of mathematics. They don't get paid to develop their field anymore - they teach instead, using their spare time to prove new ideas.

Where are our poets?

They've become songwriters. Broadway musicals, pop music, Taylor Swift - anything with lyrics.

What does that mean for our composers?

Oh, they're still around.

And where ARE our philosophers, anyway?

This one's trickier to answer, as they're scattered. Some are in bioethics, fighting for when life is defined; others roam message boards and fight random trolls that come about. They teach, they preach, they write, they learn, they shop online; they live among us, because they ARE us. No more is there such thing as the guru on the mountaintop. With the advent of the Internet, we all have a voice, and we are all heard by varying audiences.

And what do you do in all of this?

I watch. I listen. I take in what I can, and then I give it back to those who will hear me. Sometimes I make my own stuff, but that's not often. I simply take the information I have and put the pieces together.