Selling Everything
On
eBay there is someone
selling everything he owns. 10% of the sale price will be donated to autism research. The guy wrote he realised material things don't matter and he wants to live a simpler life from now on. I think he'd be a good blog material.
But since there's a guy who sells everything I wondered if there's also someone who sells nothing. What do you know... There is! An American tried to sell
absolutely nothing but ended bidding before any bids were placed. Then I found out that probably the first guy who started it all was an
Englishman selling absolutely nothing and all the others were just copycats. And he was doing okay, too: at the time eBay pulled the auction the highest bid was at £12,000.
Here's a snapshot of the page.
The Meaning
Yesterday I had a couple of comics in my knapsack during my evening stroll through the park. I found a nice bench in a shadow. It was quite hot, something like 30°C. So I sat down and started reading those couple of Alan Ford comic books. After a while an elderly man in his seventies with a walking stick sat down on the same bench. Still panting as a race horse he first enquired whether I had a girlfriend. I wasn't quite into explaining what comic I was reading so I just said: "yes" to his: "ah, the [something ancient] comic?" He decided he still wouldn't stop bothering me, so after a short silent while he started talking to me about children. They are the meaning of life and everything else is just transient and ultimately not important. I really should marry, it's easier as a couple. She should have at least three children. The old man has three children, too. It's something about woman's health. It's been scientifically proven women should have at least three children because they need the pregnancy every so often to revitalize their body, or something. The old man knows it's true because every woman he knows that has only one kid got molested with maladies at an early age. He enjoyed having kids. I should, too, he said.
And I thought the purpose of life is to read comics under a shadow on a park bench during a hot summer. I'm really out of luck.
Back From Vacation
I've been on vacation! Ha!
And now back to work... Yeuch!
