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Apr. 22nd, 2009 02:11 amWilliamstown Library book sale coming up this Friday and Saturday. In spite of my lack of money and shelf space, I'll be bringing a giant empty laundry bin, and plan to fill it with books. If you're local, you should too.
I get these moments of extreme disconnect where I feel too distant (spiritually, in addition to the usual locationally) from most of my friends and family, but non-in-person communication brings me insufficient joy. I worry if my friendships were computers, too many of them would be on StandBy -- ready to be up and running at a moments notice if we were co-present, but currently powered down because it takes less energy. Which is still better than Shut Down, and I'm thrilled that when I see people again, we can pick up right where we left off. But the longer things stay on standby without any activity, I worry the less true that will become.
Today I theorized ice cream would be a good replacement for milk or cream in all served (not baked) foods. examples: Strawberries and milk, Cheerios in milk. I cannot counter-example.
Half an hour ago I realized that I moved my arms like a robot when I walked downstairs but not upstairs. That's actually what inspired me to post in the first place.
I found a customer complaint site and a flash game, both of which are so addictive that I do not post them here because I don't want to destroy that many hours of productivity at once. It is enough that I squandered so many hours.
The world is full of people who will complain how hungry they are, and you will offer them a delicious sandwich and they will say no, no, it's not quite what I had in mind, and go on complaining how hungry they are and how they wish they had a sandwich. I'm not sure what's worse: having to deal with those people, or realizing that sometimes I'm one of them too.
I wanted to post a link to my most recent Transcript column here, but the site never posted it. It was about telegraphs. Instead, here's 8 people in your World of Warcraft guild and 6 video game characters you want to go drinking with.
Something about consuming media makes me feel victorious, as if I am better for having done so. This holds true of defeating an RPG video game, or reading lots of books. Oddly, I feel worse instead of better for reading lots on websites, or watching videos.
I get these moments of extreme disconnect where I feel too distant (spiritually, in addition to the usual locationally) from most of my friends and family, but non-in-person communication brings me insufficient joy. I worry if my friendships were computers, too many of them would be on StandBy -- ready to be up and running at a moments notice if we were co-present, but currently powered down because it takes less energy. Which is still better than Shut Down, and I'm thrilled that when I see people again, we can pick up right where we left off. But the longer things stay on standby without any activity, I worry the less true that will become.
Today I theorized ice cream would be a good replacement for milk or cream in all served (not baked) foods. examples: Strawberries and milk, Cheerios in milk. I cannot counter-example.
Half an hour ago I realized that I moved my arms like a robot when I walked downstairs but not upstairs. That's actually what inspired me to post in the first place.
I found a customer complaint site and a flash game, both of which are so addictive that I do not post them here because I don't want to destroy that many hours of productivity at once. It is enough that I squandered so many hours.
The world is full of people who will complain how hungry they are, and you will offer them a delicious sandwich and they will say no, no, it's not quite what I had in mind, and go on complaining how hungry they are and how they wish they had a sandwich. I'm not sure what's worse: having to deal with those people, or realizing that sometimes I'm one of them too.
I wanted to post a link to my most recent Transcript column here, but the site never posted it. It was about telegraphs. Instead, here's 8 people in your World of Warcraft guild and 6 video game characters you want to go drinking with.
Something about consuming media makes me feel victorious, as if I am better for having done so. This holds true of defeating an RPG video game, or reading lots of books. Oddly, I feel worse instead of better for reading lots on websites, or watching videos.
