Alien Beliefs

You know the story. The Nostromo lands on Archeron to check out the source of that strange emergency signal. The crew goes into the alien ship to examine it, and one of them -Kane, is infected by a parasitic idea.

The idea attaches itself to his mind in a most sinister way, by convincing him he cannot live a meaningful life without it.
The rest of the crew can only watch in horror as it consumes him, but initially they think it would be morally wrong to remove it, since Kane believes his life would be worthless and immoral without the idea.

Everything seems fine, but the idea morphes into a new stage of development. It bursts through the brain of Kane, and he is now determined to spread the idea to the rest of the crew.
This new form is a more violent meme which is extremely hard to kill. Its hosts gladly give their lives for it, as it makes them believe they wont truly die, but instead know eternal bliss in the presence of the idea. Moreover, when the idea is challenged and its fallacies are exposed, it protects itself by exclaiming that the one exposing its shortcomings will be tortured forever with acid.

As the crew tries to protect itself from the rampage of the idea, several of them are killed. Others are spared for the simple fact that they themselves has been implanted with the idea, and are reduced to living shells only kept alive to ensure the future of the notion.

Some events also show that some people in the government is fully aware of the idea, and that they are striving to get hold of it for their own purposes.

In their resistance against the deadly idea, one crew member stands out. It is Tracie Harris, an officer and call-in-show host. She arms herself with a logic-thrower, and with it she manages to defend herself against the advances of the idea, and finally escapes the doomed Nostromo.

As a consequence of this encounter, she dedicates her life to keep the the idea and the government separate forever.

Sweat and strange people

I'm just back from a work out session, and I'm a bit baffled about the strange people who flock to the gym at the more odd hours.

For one thing I saw a celebrity lookalike! For all you culturally educated people out there, who have come to love, like, or at least have seen Mystery Science Theatre 3000; The Final Sacrifice, I can tell you I saw Satoris at the gym! I got a bit scared actually.

Well, now on to the special (as in retarded) stuff.

There was this guy, with a whole bunch of self distance, or total lack of self reflection.
When you start stacking the equipment to use one piece to climb up to another, and you seem totally oblivious of what you're doing, I cannot be anything but amazed.
And the best part is, he didn't stop. He kept shifting it around for maybe 5 minutes before he gave up.

Well, it kept me entertained for a while at least. After that I had to go back to watching Milf's selling bra's on the home shopping channel, until I was done with the cross trainer.

In the words of Leo Johnson:

New Shoes
Ordered my first pair of Doc's last week, and I finally received them today. Usually I'm not all that about wedges, but these are really cool!

Shopping from the U.S. was far easier than I thought, although customs wants a piece of the action in the form of fees, and VAT.. Could have been worse..
Well now; I'm off to breaking them in.

Sriracha

Just a short notice, to update you on the status of my sriracha addiction:

I no longer just eat it with 90% of my meals, I drink it too.
Found out the other morning, that Virgin Mary's are an excellent excuse to increase my daily intake of rooster sauce.

So, from now on, my breakfast routine has to contain at least one latte, and one Virgin Mary, else my day is ruined.

Take note, all of you who wish you could treat me to breakfast someday.

Peace out, chilli in!