"Al's Crazy Pals" A man without nutty friends has a pretty dull life.  May the insane always be your compatriots.  -Allen Keehall-

After much experiential living and mental exercise I've come to realize that the world is terribly dull when surrounded by boring people.  And upon settling into your predilections, you tend to migrate towards similar people.  Thus, you may not notice all the dullsters since you've clearly become one. Now, I've only been called dull and boring ONCE, and I almost married the strange girl.  But other more appropriate monikers arise often enough to describe me.  Perhaps boring and dull are the best compliments I can receive from people that worship television and the fodder it provides.  Therefore I'll continue to pay them no mind and concentrate on the abstractions with ends towards reality. One thing is certain, you'll never hear of my buddies bragging for designing I-pods, I-phones, or I-profit.  Instead we work in a world where real need and functionality exist.  I've lost much admiration for the high tech technological monopolies and pity their zombie one-hit wonder engineers, wasting talent on just another cellular phone or stupid fad, when real human needs are awaiting their efforts.  Imagine the world if their energies were put to tangible human benefit? The truly enlightened understand that a sewage treatment plant designer is a god in comparison to all the Supreme Court justices.  Heck, one plumber is more important than all the world's prime ministers, presidents, and miscellaneous despots combined.  Live without a working toilet or running water for a week and you'll gladly sacrifice any of the gadget pundits and their silly products to the septic gods. Al's pals are plumbers of the technological kind.  Unfortunately we invariably have to work for the I-diots on their I-nsane I-fad I-deas that debauch humanity, make them destructively rich, and barely put food on our tables.  No one said life was fair.  But once in a while you can hide from the world and perform a little mayhem. Thankfully my tech buddies are neither dull and boring, nor unimaginative. -4/13/2012-  Friday the 13th.