Something Random

[Mercutio]

Well, your income is enviable. And I'm sure your have very stylized glasses.

I don't particularly care about how much money I make, oddly enough. I thought about not putting anything down in that box, but on the other hand, my capability to earn a living is possibly the only worthwhile thing on that page.

 

[ddrueding]

I signed up as well. The highest match for me is 54% worldwide....screw that.

 

[LOST6200]

Sory, Merc. I really meant bio as in biograpyh. Anyways, it seems by the tone of your posit that you are deliberaterly emphasizign negative characteristics. Belivbe it or not I am teh biggest loser around here! You really can;t compete in that department based on youth if no otehr reasons.

 

[Mercutio]

Maybe we can have a contest.

Hey, anyone seen "Logan's Run"?

 

[Mercutio]

I signed up as well. The highest match for me is 54% worldwide....screw that.

If you read their faqs, they say you have to answer some very large number of their questions before their analysis system will do anything good for you. With 0 questions answered you match up with like 10% of the people on the site. You don't start seeing values over 70% until you answer like 250 questions.

 

[CougTek]

I haven't visited the site, but I would be very worried about an organism spending that much effort in order to create your profile. Sounds like a scam done to harrash you with SPAM that specifically targets your centers of interest, according to the profile they could have draw on you from your answers.

Beware.

 

[LunarMist]

Maybe we can have a contest.

Hey, anyone seen "Logan's Run"?

Yeah I saw it - around the year you were born. 30 seemed a long way off back then. :lol:

 

[Handruin]

I also signed up to see what it's about. I've answered some 65 questions and the "View Matches" is giving me some returns in the upper 70% in MA. Either I'm too boring/non-unique, or I did something right?

 

[Mercutio]

I haven't visited the site, but I would be very worried about an organism spending that much effort in order to create your profile. Sounds like a scam done to harrash you with SPAM that specifically targets your centers of interest, according to the profile they could have draw on you from your answers.

Beware.

I'd put my spam filters up to any test you'd care to make. Maybe twice a week I get an unsolicited email.
You'd have to see the questions they're asking regardless. Nothing that's of much commercial interest. The site also has its own closed IM and email systems.

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Lunar, at least you have interest in travel. There's something out there that you're looking forward to. That must be nice.

 

[Handruin]

I signed up with a junk account. I'll let you know if I get a rush of spam. They had a humorous option during the sign-up to actually ask for spam. The option was deselected by default.

 

[Handruin]

I saw this interesting v8 powered snow blower on another forum and thought I'd share it. What a hoot.

 

[Fushigi]

Pennies.

 

[Mercutio]

Is there nothing Canadians can't do?

May be slightly off-color for work. But it is work-safe.

 

[LOST6200]

You only call thsat "slightly" off the color for work? Jeeze.

 

[Tannin]

Generally, when my partner turns bright blue, I find it a good idea to stop right there and call an ambulance.

 

[Tea]

What'z an orgasm?

 

[Tannin]

What's a bunny?

 

[Mercutio]

You only call thsat "slightly" off the color for work? Jeeze.

Well, yes. It's not explicitly sexual. No naughty words or violence. It's a game with a bunny, linked on a general-interest news site for crissakes.

On the other hand, since I know at least two (i.e. 40% of the staff) of my co-workers e-mail pictures of naked men back and forth, I don't think my bunny is a problem regardless.

 

[Fushigi]

On the other hand, since I know at least two (i.e. 40% of the staff) of my co-workers e-mail pictures of naked men back and forth, I don't think my bunny is a problem regardless.

That could be grounds for dismissal here.

 

[Mercutio]

That could be grounds for dismissal here.

I am the only male employee. When I started here, the ladies had Windows wallpapers of Chippendale dancers, gay dudes in thongs etc (do straight guys wear thongs?). I didn't say anything, as I really don't give a crap. The ladies mail each other those types of pictures on a mailing list that basically includes all employees. That included ME for about a week (I did mention that Schlong in my inbox was a little yucky and could they please make a new list).
Six months later I had a drug-addicted student start stalking me. The women I work with thought that was funny, and encouraged her behavior when she did things like walk up to me and rub her giant fake tits against my head.

At that point I said "If I were the woman, none of you people would have jobs." Did nothing. Emailed the complaint to my boss. The naughty wallpaper went away and the evil stalker woman went away (to this day, this psycho has a "worship" page devoted to me on the internet). Within another six months, the wallpapers were back and so were the mail (male?) messages

As far as I'm concerned, after all that, I'm in the clear regardless of what I do. My issues have been documented.

 

[Will Rickards]

You mention a worship page with no link so we can see and laugh!
Blasphemy!

 

[timwhit]

Yes, I would like to view this as well.

 

[Mercutio]

Meh. Google my given name and search through about 2000 pages of google results and it'll come up. I don't want anything to do with it.

 

[Mercutio]

When I build a new PC or teach most computer classes, I give out a 12-page-long screenshot-with-labeled-arrows-laden document describing how to use Adaware and Spybot, how to update those programs and how to run them in safe mode.

Today I've had four different people ask if I have any easier way to describe the process.

Easier than screenshot and labeled arrows???

 

[Will Rickards]

Easier than screenshot and labeled arrows???

Video Professor?

 

[Mercutio]

I made a document that says "If your computer ain't been quite right lately, buy another one. Make sure it doesn't say "Dell" on it." and handed that out.

And then the people I work with came and bitched at me.

It was worth it.

 

[Will Rickards]

Okay so I figure your given name is Samuel Laker as in your website. But still I cannot find it.
Any more keywords that might be helpful?

 

[timwhit]

Okay so I figure your given name is Samuel Laker as in your website. But still I cannot find it.
Any more keywords that might be helpful?

I searched as well and found nothing.

 

[Mercutio]

Good. Maybe she took it down.
I've seen it but never purposefully been there. I know that a few of my students have found it.

 

[i]

Please note: this is not an allusion to suicide.

I don't understand the point of life anymore.

Having written that, I'm not sure I ever understood it. I suspect that I used to have enough of that ridiculous youthful optimism about the future and my role in it, combined with just a lot more going on in my life, that I never really found myself doubting its point. I just kind of ... lived it, you know? Seriously heartfelt questions about it just seemed pointless. Well, now I'm finding life pointless.

What's the deal with this whole "life" thing? Anyone know?

I'll add that I feel badly for thinking this kind of thing, because every day I read news about another young person who had their whole life ahead of them whose life was cut short, or I read about some poor person who has been seriously maimed in Iraq, or whatever. I read about the deaths of great people who were living active, full lives, and people who were really making a difference in the world. And here I am healthy, with all my basic needs under control, finding it all completely pointless. I feel like I'm letting those other people down or something. It makes me wish I could trade -- most especially when I read about a father somewhere who's died an early and unexpected death. Geez ... he had a real reason to be alive. What point do I have to being here compared to him? None.

Everything just seems like a badly written or organized play.

 

[ddrueding]

Most days of my life I would agree with you. I've often looked around at what life has to offer, and the trials set before us to gain access to the gifts, and questioned whether I was getting a good deal.

I'm not saying the world owes me more; quite the contrary. I consider myself very fortunate in what I have and how little I really have to work to be able to do really whatever I want. I know there are 99% of the people on earth that are working harder and getting less. I just have to wonder if they've stuck there heads out of their cubicle lives and evaluated whether they feel like quitting or not.

Right now I'm in the middle of a project that seems rewarding enough to soldier on for the time being; but there's always tomorrow.

 

[Tannin]

You don't find a point in life by being logical. Logic has no rational answers, not on this level.

You don't find a point in life by immersing yourself in popular but foolish and illogical fictions poorly supported by available evidence. (Sorry, religious people, but there is no sensible way to gloss over this one.)

You don't find a point in life by walking around asking yourself "what is the point in life?" That way leads despair.

You don't find a point in life by figuring out what's wrong with the world and trying to change all of it. That way lies heartbreak.

You do find a point in life by figuring out what things you care about, and caring for them. Do something! Do something practical about something you care about. (A person, a cause, a living creature.) Follow your own path in this. In this context, "practical" has a very wide meaning: it could be creating some art (music, visual art, writing), or working hands-on with the soil, or simply making someone that matters to you happy.

You will never find a point in life by merely trying to gratify your own desires. But nor will you ever find a point by resolutely ignoring your desires. Life only works well when you you do both: when you find something you like doing that also serves your cause well in some practical way. This synergy between ambition and desire is the key to successful living. You must learn, somehow, to meld two or more apparently conflicting goals into a single series of actions — to be both wave and particle, if you like.

By serving your cause (whatever it may be) you begin to feel more satisfied with life, by being happier you become more capable and more productive, which allows you to serve your cause better, which in turn pays off with personal rewards that make you more productive .. and so on. Before too long, you will find yourself wishing there were more hours in every day so that you could achieve even more than you are achieving now.

Damn it, i, get your arse over here and lend me a hand! After 40 wasted years of wondering what the point in life was, I have more useful things that I love to do than I can possibly take care of if I live to be 200 years old, and if someone brings in a 56-hour day to help me get things done. And I have never been happier.

 

[Mercutio]

I pretty much stand in agreement with i.

I can't say there's anything I care so much about - that is willing to accept my care - that I could act in the way Tannin suggests.

And that doesn't leave very much.

 

[Bozo]

To jump start your self esteam and life, do some volunteer work. Salvation Army, Red Cross, a church.....
Nothing brings new life to your soul than helping someone you don't know because you wanted to.

Bozo :mrgrn:

 

[ddrueding]

To jump start your self esteam and life, do some volunteer work. Salvation Army, Red Cross, a church.....
Nothing brings new life to your soul than helping someone you don't know because you wanted to.

I used to do this quite a bit, but I am really not inclined to help someone if their need comes from a massive fuckup on their part without excuse or signs of change.

 

[jtr1962]

I used to do this quite a bit, but I am really not inclined to help someone if their need comes from a massive fuckup on their part without excuse or signs of change.

That's one of the things which turned my off to a lot of volunteer work. I love helping people making an honest effort to better themselves. I used to help my friends study for tests all the time in high school. One girl I helped even managed to get a seemingly impossible 100% on a test with the hardest-nosed chem teacher that ever existed. He always found a way to deduct on every test. I ran up strings of 97s, 98s, and 99s with him, but never 100. I was thrilled when my friend finally did it. Great satisfaction comes when you see somone use a skill you taught them to break their ties of dependency, or to advance in life, or just to show up those who said they could never do something. That being said, I've also heard that quite a bit of volunteer help ends up a massive lesson in frustration. Either the people just aren't trying, just don't care, are just in the program so they can continue receiving aid, or the system is set up in a way to foster dependency. I heard a line in a movie once about drilling a hole in water. Sadly, that's what quite a bit of volunteer work devolves into.

 

[LOST6200]

Merc, maybe you would like to volunteer for this?

 

[mubs]

i, Merc, Tannin, I suspect the problem is more prevalent than is believed. Here's my guess on the population breakdwown worldwide.

You don't find a point in life by immersing yourself in popular but foolish and illogical fictions poorly supported by available evidence. (Sorry, religious people, but there is no sensible way to gloss over this one.)

I suspect 49% of people fall in the above category.

Another 49% consisting of the i's, Merc's and Mubs' of the world.

2% of type Tannin.

 

[ddrueding]

Why am I actually considering buying one of these? Does the geek factor really extend to pets?

 

[Santilli]

VERY cool :excl:

GS