identity
Here's a topic that i've been pondering for awhile. How many different identities do you think you have on the net? Logins, email accounts, irc and instant message handles, online dating personas, forum message boards, i mean the range of creating you over and over and over is really endless.. how do you keep up with them all? On amazon I'm this, on that other commerce site im that, son on and so on. How many different passwords do you try to keep track of, or do you use an app to remind you? Who was I last night on that one site.. was i joe, fred, hami, spock.. etc. I'm getting lost in all my indentites and the idea of needing an app to track and tell me who i am to them and those other folks really bums me out. Pretty soon will I need an app to remind me who I am in real life? Will I need software to tell i'm off line, i'm awakeware?
I think of all identity crime happening out there. And we ourselves are encourged to create multiple identites to continually keep the masters off our fence. Thats a weird one, the masters on the fence. I like it. Typically we in the social reality space are encouraged to be just us, in person i'm dan, hello. Faking who i am in reality doesnt fly well, i can get arrested easily. Yet you can do it in one place, at least conversationally you are encouraged to lie about who you are as a person. Not bars, nope.. telemarketers, sure ok maybe there, those bible thumpin door knockin peeps perhaps but they are on to ya if ya do, no i'm talkin about car salesmen.
This past weekend my brothe Paul and I test drove the Chrysler 300C Hemi. Beautiful car but we had no, thats right, no intention of ever buying it. We just wanna drive it. We have to go thru the dance of disbelief with them however, otherwise you can't drive the car. You have to lie. Its sublimminaly encouraged. Least by my mind set. My brother is far better at the game than I. He talks the talk well. He loves test driving cars. Lately we've been enjoying tossing eachother statements in front of salesmen to keep our story evolving. Sure the ID's we pass to get into the cars are real but nothing else is. We just moved here, visiting a friend, just bought a house, need to a car, a truck whatever. The talkin game does get old though. I have no patience for cars salesmen. Not when I just wanna drive a car. I want, you give me. Thats what I want. Nope car salesmen dance all day long with people, maybe half, hell maybe a third are really real. So the 300C Hemi was good, big car, nice feel, super cheap for what ya get. 34k loaded is nice, and the price is goin up 1k next year they tell me. Demand on those critters is crazy. Fun car. Whats really nice is the space for tall folks, there is a ton of room in that car, that alone is like 70% of the sale to me really. Funny how that car has a ton of room and you look at it and go.. "ok ya.." and then the mini has equally as much room (for the driver) and you look at it and go..."umm no.. no tall person could get in that thing".
The second car.. well truck we looked at was the Dodge SRT10 truck.. a small little truck with a dodge viper engine in it. Hilarious, 500 horsepower. Thats crazy. We had to drive it. The story changed a bit, we knew we couldnt take it out together, thats ok, Paul is driver really, I'm the admiring white cloud of smoke tire burning brother. Heh. I love seeing my brother behind the wheel of a car, truck etc. So the results? The truck is damn fast.. a different kind of speed compared to the Ford F150 Lightning we drove this past spring. The story on this SRT10 was 41k out the door, it was used.. hardly a break I say but the 500horsepower beast is.. well a beast. The story goes a man with a viper traded his viper in and bought the truck new for 45k, and then ten days later returned it and got his viper back. When you look inside the hood of an SRT10 and see this massive viper motor you cant help but smile. It rests easily inside the body, in fact it looks like its got room to spare and this isnt a big truck. It roars nicely as well, though it didnt have the cool windup whine of the Lightning kickin on the turbo. Still 500 horsepower in a small truck like that.. like why. Heh. Lotta fun.