Well let's just give it a go then. Give what a go? You ask. This, a phlog, another waste of time surely better spent on other aspects of life. A voice to those inner thoughts endlessly rolling around my head driving me either more mad or more sane - I don't really know which. It's not such a foreign concept after all; (well using a semicolon sort-of is, but what the hell it's a day of firsts) I've been babbling away to myself and others in text for quite a long time. Some on this old 90s Pentium PC which I still insist on running daily for my morning internet use, others on an old Sharp PC-7100 portable from the mid 80s that I use to type up occasional letters, and most of all jotted down in pencil on small mountains of notepad paper. My ideas pile sits under one of my workbenches. Occasionally, while searching for a dropped diode or a runaway resistor, I knock down a page detailing my thoughts of the nature of intelligence, the meaning of life, world domination, or the next generation of the airship. Back it goes, squeezed into an unfoldered plastic pocket along with a wad of similar ramblings which I couldn't be bothered introducing it to when I first tossed the page under there into my little archive of dreams. Others never make it there of course, and of those that do get recorded many are strewn around the house, usually next to chairs, after all these thoughts don't want to be burried, they want to be free to be lived, to be my life. But what is this life they promise? One of fame and fortune surrounded by new philosophies, sea-stabilised airships, optically transmitted data broadcasts, and laser powerdrills? Or is it one of failed dreams and bitter resentment at being unable to fulfill them? You only have to follow the stories of a few inventors and visionaries to realise that the latter is really far more likely, in spite of what society insists it makes possible for the beings that help support it. So here we are, at a place that just might capture those thoughts, and perhaps give them some hope at life. I welcome you to: FREE THOUGHTS You get what you pay for. -The Free Thinker