Why am I saying this? Well because of this.

You see in, oh about a little less than an hour from this post scientists, in their never ending quests to kill us all, will rev up a machine that will... You know what? You read up on it.

Large Hadron Collider Homepage

CERN

Google News

I like how there is an article for best & worst case scenarios yet scientists basically say that there is no cause for alarm. Now I'm all for scientific explorations, but I've seen enough movies to know that it never turns out to benefit mankind. More like destroys it. Somebody needs to send  these jokers some movies. Better yet, let them colonize the moon or Mars. Let them play their reindeer games there. If it works out, send it home. If not, we don't have to worry about it...hopefully.

Anyway, should you see this in the afternoon and laugh at my lunacy, Cool, I'll except that. But if you don't see this, then I was right and you can all suck it.


And I love you all! Really!

(EDIT) It's 3:50am. The Collider has been initiated. So far, still here.

Here is a tour of the joint doing the commotion:

CERN Tour: Video that makes you smarter - Scobleizer.com

(EDIT 2)
It's 5:45am and we're still here! Whoo HoOO! The starting up was successful. Except I hear there may have been a "small problem" during the initial startup. AND I'm hearing that they will be firing up the damn thing a few more times in the coming weeks. The want to build up to crashing two particles Crash Test Dummy style into each other. Clearly they, don't know the words "Quit while you're ahead".

I would like to thank twitter for keeping me on pins & needles abreast of the goings on over in Geneva Switzerland(where this is taking place). We are not out of the woods yet, folks. Never fear, though, the website Mashable tells us "How to know when the Large Hadron Collider spells your doom"(Including a strip from a web comic I love, XKCD).

This post is probably not what you think it is about. Might have been a slight misdirection on my part, but you love me. This is not about sexual passion, you can go elsewhere for that. No, this is about the passion of doing something you love. This is how I came to think about this.

Recently, I was talking to a new friend of mine, Adrienne, whom I pretty much met through Patrice, asked me one simple question: "What is your passion?" So I proceeded to answer here with stuff that I love like Tech/gadgets, music, photography. You know, the stuff I usually talk about here (minus photography). She said, 'No, those are things you love. What are you PASSIONATE about?" I thought about it. Thought about everything I had just ran down and then some. I couldn't think of one thing that I felt passionate about and that's what I told her. As soon as the words came out of my mouth, I kinda felt I kinda felt a little depressed. Didn't tell her that,but it might have caught in my voice. She then went on to tell me the stuff that she was passionate about (of which I pretty much knew about at this point) She also told me, "The next time I ask you that question, you have answer for me." I laughed and said, "Yes, Ma'am!" Well, thankfully she has asked me yet because it's been about 2 or 3 days since that conversation and I STILL don't have an answer. It bothers me too. Out of everything I love (and could be doing with my time off), I still can't think of one thing that I am passionate about. Fam, I'm not going to lie, that sucks and i'll say it again, it's depressing.

So what am going to do about it? Probably spend the next few days, weeks, months figuring out the answer (and hope that should she see this she don't trip). I love conversations like this and have been having a few lately with folks, but it doesn't make the outcome of them any better or worse for me. Slightly mopey about it, but I'm strong, so I'll be alright. Don't you worry. But until such a time as I come up with an answer I want to pose the same question to you all out there.

What is your passion? What are you passionate about? Not what you love, either. PASSION(ATE).

Talk to me! Oh, and Adrienne, Thanks for that spark. :) I think I needed it.

Quiet Passion