As if turning 35 wasn't enough of a wake up call that life is quickly ticking away, and way too short, imagine meeting your doppelgänger on the same day... Please keep in mind I live deep in the green valley of reality. I do however love conspiracy and extreme coincidence, such as my friend to the left here. So let us explore and imagine the possibility that I was perhaps made aware of at least a mega case of deja-vu.
Traditionally a doppelgänger was an ill omen, that would present itself in times of dire anguish or extreme stress. The doppelgänger was sometimes thought to be a bringer of death a warning from the shadowrealm (#SMR 4 Life) that one had been chosen for the crossing. Other myths seem to suggest the doppelgänger was more of an imp or naughty spirit that would haunt the host with little more than base indignity. Still more norse mythology often represents the doppelgänger as a dark, sinister being only vapidly available in ones periphery.
My poor fellow here meets none of these requirements, or perhaps we could really wax paranoid and further develop a theory. Is it possible that all the old school doppelgängers only had base technology to haunt through? I mean come on... Evil spirits and ghosts nowadays have a host of IP based solutions for taunting a damned soul into the hellfire that surely awaits. With the growth of IP enabled just about everything, (my light switches have mac addresses) a crafty doppelgänger should be able to drop itself into 4 tidy little octets and mask itself right into the ether. Of course these harbingers of sorrow really should try and develop an IPv6 haunting solution soon due to the 2012 exhaustion, but I'm not the standards guy for the undead.
I will continue to monitor my local technologies and screens for further haunts, but in the meantime I am calling you out "current Wii nunchuk controller packaging model guy!" if you are out there enjoying all the pimpin' and ho'ing that comes from being such a great "action" model for "generic guy with 90's hair" backgrounds, I implore you to come forward, make yourself known, let us settle this here and now as mortals! Let us fight like men with sword and bone not ether and tricks, make yourself ready! Paladin!! Oh oops I mean hey FB me or something...
...because the reality is you are the fresh faced 90's version of me, full of hopes and dreams. I am the 35 year old, angry and grizzled Dr. House version of you, think about it, with all your youthful abandon and wavy hair, I may actually be the doppelgänger for you...
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