Happy Bonfire/Fireworks/Guy Fawkes Night/Diwali, everybody!

Guy Fawkes Night will always remind me to rebel. I'm sure that's the opposite of what the British Government intended when they decided to make Guy Fawkes infamous by burning him every year on a pile of old furniture, but that's the message I've ultimately taken away from it. As Stephen Fry once said:

"I think to live at the summation of human achievement in everything from computing to the internal combustion engine is a wonderful thing because we've got the past age, you can imagine you're that a Victorian, but if you're a Victorian you couldn't imagine you lived in the 1970s, you couldn't imagine you lived in the 1990s. The beauty of it is we are at the absolute peak of everything, as we speak this minute is the most modern minute that ever happened."

So make the most of it.

Also, my faith in humanity has increased for the first time in a long while. Thank you, America, for voting Barack Obama as your president.