Garbage goblins
Recently
while I was strolling around the city, I came upon a new condo project
whose name was "Gläs". I chuckled a little and wondered whether Nüni
and her wacky family will live there. Perhaps the building will also
feature a trendy restaurant named Füd.
Speaking of restaurents, my wife is going to a restaurant dinner with all her old cow-orkers tonight for an evening that will probably resemble of a commercial for The Keg. It's too hot for me out there to really do anything useful, so I'll just pour me a drink, browse the interweb to see what is going on in the world, and then dig into the pile of comic books that have been waiting for me for a while. That's life. In this spirit, we can note the WikiHow article "How to Retire in Your 30's".
First, in the post "Elevating the Discourse", Protein Wisdom has also noticed the phenomenon that I usually refer to with the Japanese saying of a hunter chasing a rabbit is blind to mountains. It is interesting how people can reveal their real opinions about something when they are in a state of anger and don't think about the larger consequences too carefully.
Somebody once suggested that the notion of "evil" could simply be equated to negative sum games. (I can't remember who suggested this, but it also may have been me or some voice in my head.) Don't know about that even though intuitively it sounds good, but we certainly do know that social status is a zero-sum game, which is why status competition is generally unproductive. Far better for people to spend their resources on positive sum games! The post "The Universal Law of Interpersonal Dynamics" at the ever-excellent Gene Expression examines certain logical consequences of the zero-num nature of social status.
Of course I have heard of Tucker Max many times. I got the impression that he was supposed to be some kind of human version of the Space Moose, but since I checked out the site many, many years ago and the stories were not that funny, so I never got into it. Tucker is now also a blogger, and his post "Should I go to law school? The Speech Text" tells the truth about this noble profession pretty much the same way as the post "Law school: the big lie" at Calico Cat.
Tucker Max also featuresa link to the collected posts at the Tard Blog that I also remember reading many years ago. Somebody ought to similarly compile the best posts of the Usenet newsgroup alt.tasteless for a similar convenient package.
Next time some leftist who is married (yes, there are some of them, but for certain reasons the half-life of leftist marriages tends to be quite low) argues that the gay marriage doesn't threaten his marriage and begins the usual dance of "you are so stoopid if you believe that I have no choice but to leave my wife if gay marriage is legalized, ha ha", a handy response would be to say that eliminating minimum wage doesn't threaten my salary, and therefore I see no problem whatsoever in eliminating the minimum wage. Of course, what the original leftist "argument" misses is that the particular leftist saying it is not the marginal case who would suffer from dissolving the status of marriage, just like I am not a marginal case who would be paid less per hour if there was no minimum wage. The old post "A really, really, really long post about gay marriage that does not, in the end, support one side or the other" of Asymmetrical Information takes this further in a way that makes me classify it as one of the top three blog posts that I have ever read anywhere, so it is worth repeating here. From the same blog, we should also note the old post "The poor really are different", another truism that everybody knows when it comes the time to choose where you live.
Slashdot informs us that "'Big Brother' Eyes Make Us Act More Honestly". I have to wonder how a poster that simply said "Obey" would do. One fun little novel by Philip K. Dick that I read in high school featured a world in which a giant eye filled the sky and watched the people, so if the sky projection technology is ever perfected, that is certainly one possible application.
At the Evangelical Outpost, the post "Daily News and the Death of Wisdom" asks what exactly is the benefit from watching news. If watching news was useful for the intellectual development, veteran newscasters would be the smartest people anywhere, yes? I don't watch TV news at all, since I can learn everything I need on the web.
I recently read the book "The Way of the Weasel" by Scott Adams of Dilbert fame. The book was much better than I expected, and its observations and general style foreshadowed a lot of stuff at the Dilbert Blog. It is perhaps too easy to write a book based on reader emails and your old comic strips, but then again, what nonfiction book today isn't written essentially this way?
Speaking of restaurents, my wife is going to a restaurant dinner with all her old cow-orkers tonight for an evening that will probably resemble of a commercial for The Keg. It's too hot for me out there to really do anything useful, so I'll just pour me a drink, browse the interweb to see what is going on in the world, and then dig into the pile of comic books that have been waiting for me for a while. That's life. In this spirit, we can note the WikiHow article "How to Retire in Your 30's".
First, in the post "Elevating the Discourse", Protein Wisdom has also noticed the phenomenon that I usually refer to with the Japanese saying of a hunter chasing a rabbit is blind to mountains. It is interesting how people can reveal their real opinions about something when they are in a state of anger and don't think about the larger consequences too carefully.
Somebody once suggested that the notion of "evil" could simply be equated to negative sum games. (I can't remember who suggested this, but it also may have been me or some voice in my head.) Don't know about that even though intuitively it sounds good, but we certainly do know that social status is a zero-sum game, which is why status competition is generally unproductive. Far better for people to spend their resources on positive sum games! The post "The Universal Law of Interpersonal Dynamics" at the ever-excellent Gene Expression examines certain logical consequences of the zero-num nature of social status.
Of course I have heard of Tucker Max many times. I got the impression that he was supposed to be some kind of human version of the Space Moose, but since I checked out the site many, many years ago and the stories were not that funny, so I never got into it. Tucker is now also a blogger, and his post "Should I go to law school? The Speech Text" tells the truth about this noble profession pretty much the same way as the post "Law school: the big lie" at Calico Cat.
Tucker Max also featuresa link to the collected posts at the Tard Blog that I also remember reading many years ago. Somebody ought to similarly compile the best posts of the Usenet newsgroup alt.tasteless for a similar convenient package.
Next time some leftist who is married (yes, there are some of them, but for certain reasons the half-life of leftist marriages tends to be quite low) argues that the gay marriage doesn't threaten his marriage and begins the usual dance of "you are so stoopid if you believe that I have no choice but to leave my wife if gay marriage is legalized, ha ha", a handy response would be to say that eliminating minimum wage doesn't threaten my salary, and therefore I see no problem whatsoever in eliminating the minimum wage. Of course, what the original leftist "argument" misses is that the particular leftist saying it is not the marginal case who would suffer from dissolving the status of marriage, just like I am not a marginal case who would be paid less per hour if there was no minimum wage. The old post "A really, really, really long post about gay marriage that does not, in the end, support one side or the other" of Asymmetrical Information takes this further in a way that makes me classify it as one of the top three blog posts that I have ever read anywhere, so it is worth repeating here. From the same blog, we should also note the old post "The poor really are different", another truism that everybody knows when it comes the time to choose where you live.
Slashdot informs us that "'Big Brother' Eyes Make Us Act More Honestly". I have to wonder how a poster that simply said "Obey" would do. One fun little novel by Philip K. Dick that I read in high school featured a world in which a giant eye filled the sky and watched the people, so if the sky projection technology is ever perfected, that is certainly one possible application.
At the Evangelical Outpost, the post "Daily News and the Death of Wisdom" asks what exactly is the benefit from watching news. If watching news was useful for the intellectual development, veteran newscasters would be the smartest people anywhere, yes? I don't watch TV news at all, since I can learn everything I need on the web.
I recently read the book "The Way of the Weasel" by Scott Adams of Dilbert fame. The book was much better than I expected, and its observations and general style foreshadowed a lot of stuff at the Dilbert Blog. It is perhaps too easy to write a book based on reader emails and your old comic strips, but then again, what nonfiction book today isn't written essentially this way?
all her old cow-orkers tonight
Heh, was that a slip of the tongue? Did you perhaps mean "cow-porkers"?
Posted by loki on the run | 1:00 PM