The name of this blog is ...

I named this blog in honor of David Byrne's song Finite = Alright:

Three-hundred-fifty cities in the world
Just thirty teeth inside of our heads
These are the limits to our experience
It’s scary but it’s alright
And everything is finite

To me this song is about the fact that nothing lasts forever, nothing is permanent, everything changes. I think its important to keep this fact in one's mind at all times to avoid making decisions based on the delusion that it is possible or even desireable to preserve anything forever.

Here are some other restatements of this principle:

But life is just a party
And parties weren't meant 2 last
-Prince, 1999

On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero.
-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 2