Deja Vu

Dontcha feel you've been 'ere before? Well, you actually have! I decided to switch back from my brand new template Harbor to the good old No. 897. But not before I had "fixed" it to suit my tastes. Being the HTML guru that I am, I delved right in midst of the labyrinthine miles of tags and stylesheets that make up a blogger.com template. Tearing my way through loads of ASCII gibberish with knight-like speed, I came across an innocuous inscription which read:

#content { ... width=744px ...}

With the consummate grace of a high-flying eagle and the dainty elegance of a ballet dancer, I changed the width to 844 and the job was done!

Two template changes in two days. Many would call me fickle. But O Revered Critic, what more is fickle, but a mere synonym of adaptive. I have always maintained that Jesus was misquoted when he said that the meek shall inherit the earth. Jesus' actual quote was noted down by an obscure historian named Idios. The writings of Idios later became known as the "Idiotic Scrolls" and were placed at a secure and unknown location to hide their existence from the Church. Not much was heard about these documents until a little known British naturalist by the name of Charles stumbled upon the hiding place. One can imagine his amazement when he read that Jesus had actually declared: "Those who adapt, shall inherit the earth"!

Feeling disoriented and despaired at being so suddenly deprived of the shelter his religion and its teachings offered, Charles decided he needed to get away from it all. Soon enough a ship by the name of HMS Beagle was to sail on a scientific expedition across the Atlantic and our British friend decided to hop on. Sailing in the ocean is a perfect time for introspection and Charles did just that. Soon enough, he was convinced of the truth behind the Idiotic Scrolls and by the time HMS Beagle turned around for the journey back home, Charles had decided that the world must know the Truth. Upon his return, the man wrote a treatise called "On the Origin of Species" and the rest is history! Ladies and gentlemen, the British naturalist was none other than Charles Robert Darwin and it is a carefully suppressed fact that his theories on natural selection and adaptation were in fact inspired by what he read in the Idiotic Scrolls.

And I told you all this because ...


All ye men, who call me fickle,
Your poor souls, shan't get a nickle,
Nor dime, nor quarter,
Nor anything shorter!
While I shall have all the mirth,
'Coz I adapt, and shall inherit the earth!


By the way, did I tell you that I have this impossible deadline coming up tonight?? Gotta run now ...