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'S done for the night. More stuff to do tomorrow, like work. The basketball game's going very Not Well for Detroit. So I think I'll go to bed and save myself the trouble. Maybe when I get up, I can grab a power up or two and be good for the day tomorrow. Might help me make some sense of these ultraculture adverts. Even after reading some of their goals, things are a bit strange. If it is simply a matter of bringing the magical process to the masses and using it to transform our world into something better, then would it really do well with a media blitz or similar tactics? The esotericism of the process is often a safeguard to keep certain peoples out who would do what they do now in destroying the world, the people, and their minds, only do it more effectively by harnessing the techniques. If everyone can see the fnords, then the fnords will simply hide better.
On perhaps the other end of the magical-technological spectrum, we have someone who had a new sense installed in one of his fingers, and now it can sense active magnetic fields. Must be a different sensation, indeed.
I think I'm trying to bore myself and call it enjoying a relaxed day off. Which would have been okay, except that the game I was playing crashed about four times in the same place. Ah, well. such things happen. There is some good news: the domestic violence rate has dropped considerably. Some of those bullet points, however, taken out of context would paint a bulls-eye on my back for anyone with a grudge and a tendency not to read everything through. I'm with TK - someone could easily read that and think that 75% of men are abusers, as are 79% of whites. That would be the most excellent thing to have to worry about - a mob of angry people with pitchforks and mobs making me an abuser. Plus, as BT says, there's a good chance the figures reflect a particular sample, and not necessarily the whole situation.
Anyway, I'm going to bed. Work in the morning and all that. Much as I said I needed the money, the whole desk with umpiring combination is going to wear on me ever so slightly. Things will change soon, however, and so I need to be ready for it. A bright spot of this week is that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mai_li will be visiting the area for dinner at some point, probably Friday, since it's the one day where my evening isn't mortgaged to IM sports.
Funny that I should say this, considering that in the last four weekends I've been traveling around, but I need something social to happen soon or I'm going to go nuts. Maybe I should think about organizing an arcade jaunt or something.
On perhaps the other end of the magical-technological spectrum, we have someone who had a new sense installed in one of his fingers, and now it can sense active magnetic fields. Must be a different sensation, indeed.
I think I'm trying to bore myself and call it enjoying a relaxed day off. Which would have been okay, except that the game I was playing crashed about four times in the same place. Ah, well. such things happen. There is some good news: the domestic violence rate has dropped considerably. Some of those bullet points, however, taken out of context would paint a bulls-eye on my back for anyone with a grudge and a tendency not to read everything through. I'm with TK - someone could easily read that and think that 75% of men are abusers, as are 79% of whites. That would be the most excellent thing to have to worry about - a mob of angry people with pitchforks and mobs making me an abuser. Plus, as BT says, there's a good chance the figures reflect a particular sample, and not necessarily the whole situation.
Anyway, I'm going to bed. Work in the morning and all that. Much as I said I needed the money, the whole desk with umpiring combination is going to wear on me ever so slightly. Things will change soon, however, and so I need to be ready for it. A bright spot of this week is that
mai_li will be visiting the area for dinner at some point, probably Friday, since it's the one day where my evening isn't mortgaged to IM sports. Funny that I should say this, considering that in the last four weekends I've been traveling around, but I need something social to happen soon or I'm going to go nuts. Maybe I should think about organizing an arcade jaunt or something.
