Sunday, April 19, 2009

Career Cavities: An Exploration (Sunday Essay 7)

Two things:

( 1 )
Some nights ago, I dreamt Kermit the Frog was the captain in the latest Star Trek show. It was more J J Abrams than Gene Roddenberry, (firefox has an entry for 'Roddenberry' in their spell check but not for 'firefox') and he was a tough-as-nails captain. All "Fire the torpedoes! Get out from underneath them, goddammit!" and then grover gets on the bridge and says "Hey guys! Let's sing a song while we're..." and kermit all slaps him in the face "this is no time to sing a song! We're up to our fucking shit in klingons! Now I'm the captain, you get the fuck back in engineering!" And then the screen shakes and everyone braces themselves. I was pretty happy about it at the time.

Having a classically absurd dream premise is a pleasant reminder that there is still sanity and order in the world.

( 2 )
Speaking of dreams, I had no idea answers.com added a dream interpreter to their thesaurus services:

http://www.answers.com/library/Dream+Symbols

I think it's pretty rad. Someone (me) should do what [linkify] has done, except rather than looking directly at Google, it looks at the dream symbols as linked above and provides an interpretation. I could make a dream interpreter, in essence, that takes a block of text where you describe a dream and turns it into a link-filled extravaganza.

1 comments:

  1. Dream Interpreter! That means I can stop using my Ouija board to contact the biblical Daniel!

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