A good Friday.

[silveradept]

At least, kind of. I did do very little progress towards finding complementary work. I spent some time with a friend, and I watched a little of the Phantom movie. Apparently it's out on DVD. Yay.

My fellow citizens of America and the world: Pay Attention. There's someone here you should listen to. From there, why not start taking steps towards the unified human mind? (Of course, there are a couple of SF stories that say the results of this might not be as rosy as the editorial guy posits, but going in that direction will probably do more help than harm.)

Plus, in the "everybody needs a hobby" category, why the work ethic isn't exactly ethical. That article does make a twisted sort of sense. If we equate work with unhappiness and laziness with free time, then it's no wonder our hobbies aren't great and we're all overweight.

I got in a CD from greyweirdo today. Interesting stuff on the CD, even if there's only a few tracks that I'll keep. Give me an idea of what you might want for the return feed, Weirdo. Genre markings are fine. Otherwise you'll get a CD that I might like, but you might not.

Let's see, that about covers my day today. Not the most productive of times, but not the worst either. I'll have to make a decision as to whether I want to sleep in or go to the band workday tomorrow. Being a graduated senior, the idea most appealing is to sleep in. Considering that I live catty-corner to the band hall, however, makes the pull only that much stronger. We'll see what time I end up getting up and work from there.

Perhaps, instead, I shall do laundry. But that implies that the washer and drier are empty, which has been a dodgy prospect for most of my existence here so far. Maybe I will also go around trying to see if I can't fill out a couple more applications here and there. My geekdom might parlay nicely into a Gamestop job... if any of them were hiring. That's part of what I might be doing tomorrow. So, again, if anybody's got a nice, decently-paying job in the Ann Arbor area or so that they can let me have for the summer, that'd be faaaaaaantastic.

neoboy3000 and I are apparently going to be the victims of a tentacle-whipping if we continue along our current path, courtesy of uncle_pervy. All the more incentive to continue with the positive mindset development. And with that image in your heads, I'm going to bed.

Comments

[starkruzr.livejournal.com]

The "unified human mind" thing only appeals to me if we all get to stay individuals. That is, I'd want it to be an additive thing, not a substitutive - a substitutive establishment of a group mind sounds an awful lot like death to me.

[silveradept]

That would be nice to be additive. Although in things like Childhood's End and The Last Question, it turns out that this is not necessarily the case. The end is somewhat bleak for humanity as well in those stories.

We'll see, though. At some point, I would expect a certain loss into the system as a consequence of the merge.

[starkruzr.livejournal.com]

Low had me read a webcomic - forget the name - in which all the citizens of Mars form a group mind together but stay individuals.

If you follow Stargate, it seems to be something like the connection between a Tok'ra and its host.

[silveradept]

I don't follow Stargate, but if it's anything like Jadsia Dax from Deep Space Nine, I think I understand.

[starkruzr.livejournal.com]

No, that was more of a melding - closer to what that article is talking about except between two individuals rather than millions.

In Stargate, the Tok'ra join with their hosts but stay two separate individuals. They switch off between control of the body in a cooperative manner, and can communicate with each other very deeply.

[silveradept]

Ah, okay. More like a multiple system, then.

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

What songs did you dig, since you're on the short list for the more full disc I don't wanna waste speace by putting on thigns you won't listen to.

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

PS- I like the redesign

[silveradept]

Okay. I liked Silky Flanks, Good Job Stamp, 30 minutes (but I've heard some other t.A.T.u., and the more perky stuff is not my thing), and Mount Normal. I liked the novelty of Super Powers and 88 Lines, but I don't think they'd be on a CD I'd mix, and Happy Home in Kathmandu is nice, along the right idea.

You still need to tell me where to aim for the return CD.

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

I have sent a message to your hotmail account.

As for what's on the disc, go nuts! Give whatever sound neat to you at the moment.

[silveradept]

I have a return address on the disc you sent me, so unless you want it sent somewhere else, that's probably where it will go.

Saying what sounds neat to me might get you an entire tracklist of songs without words, you realize. But if you're cool with that, then we can handle it.

And how would you like it done - CDDA of the 80 minute variety or MP3 of the 700MB variety?

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

I think I've got more music that's just instrumental that stuff with vocals, so that's all good with me.

I will leave the particular formatting of the disc to your discression. Although as I said before soon as I can go get a few more CD's I was going to make a big MP3 cd to send you since you got a barely filled mp3 cd due to me not paying attention when I burned it. It really just depends on if you want to make a small program or a large boat load of music thing.

[blacktigr.livejournal.com]

Heh, I can go with the "consumerism sucks" bandwagon (I don't shop as recreation), but I do believe that a work ethic is the only way to look good on a job.

I believe, and people can argue with this if they want, that the time that I am "on the clock" is time that I should be at the very least 80% concentrating on my work. Surfing the web on company time is a BIG no-no. When you are working for any company, there is always *something* to be done with the time you are there. If you get done with your work, then you can pick up a stack of paper towels and a bottle of Windex.

Now, mind you, this responsibility goes both ways. My place of business is then ethically supposed to pay me what my full attention is worth. The wage then becomes commensurate to my experience and education, and I am no longer a cog that could be anyone. It is my responsibility to only take jobs that respect my method of working, and it is their responsibility to hire me only for a job for which I am suited.

Of course, Ethics is a philosophical discipline, and therefore when it is applied to real-life situations it changes, but there has to be a market equilibrium of some point.

[silveradept]

Excellent thoughts. Probably the happiest of workers are the people who always have work they can be doing, but aren't crushed by having too much work, and have work that is appealing to them.

Unfortunately, at the moment, there are more people than jobs (I suspect my socialist friend would say this is by design, and I think he might be right) and so we have people unsuited to their jobs holding onto them for dear life because there aren't openings in the places they would rather be, and then they get sucked in by inertia.

'Twould be far easier to have the surplus of available positions so that everyone could train to the job they wanted and so that the employers would pay them a proper wage as well. But as you said, philosophy and the accepted reality do not always mesh well.