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Mathoonika is way of life based on the idea of the Mathoonikan Dream. The Dream in question is of a life where the most life can be lived, with the least possible effort.

In other words, live your life in such way that you can sip a cappuccino at any time of the day. Your income should preferably also be above that of humans that do not follow The Dream.

Lately I’ve been feeling that I am losing my geekyness somewhat.

I am no longer entranced by shiny gadgets, and I no longer crave the latest mobile phone just because it has a cool camera.

Until December I had a really el-cheapo Siemens A52 which I bought for 300kr without abonnemang, and it was my ex-gf’s fault (HI!) that I ended up buying a much more expensive Panasonic X700 for Xmas…. She asked my advice on phones, and I searched, I saw, I clicked, I payed.

Now I am thinking of selling it. I could use the cash for other stuff, and frankly, I hardly use the features of the phone at all. The only feature I do use sometimes is the ability to read e-books. Seems hardly worth the expense however.

I’ve also ungeeked myself to such an extent that I don’t even have a VGA cable anymore. Sure, there are some odd cables hanging in what used to be a server room, now a storage room, but still, it feels empty.
In a way, I miss that, but I really don’t know where I stand right now. I like technology, but maybe I’ve just outgrown the need to buy gadgets unless I really feel the need for the featureset.

It’s probably just that I am poor right now, that’s all. I mean, fuck, I wouldn’t mind getting a new PC for playing games and tinkering in Linux, but instead I’ll be spending the money in Japan. I obviously decided on Japan so you can see what I feel is more important, still I wouldn’t mind.

In any case, I just feel that my geekyness is in somewhat of a limbo. Sometimes it feels that I am artificially maintaining it, and sometimes I feel I want to immerse myself in Binary numbers and make love to blinking lights (preferably blue ones).

To let you understand how disconnected I have become.. I can summarize the number of electrical items I believe will accompany me to Japan:
1. My camera
2. iPod Shuffle (mainly as a memory card for pictures I might need to store on it)
3. My electrical razor (although I might not even take that, depends on space)

So ungeeky indeed.

While I’ve been thinking about this topic for quite some time, I decided to post it today, after looking at this. Enjoy.