2698.2: School's Out
So this came up in the usual job search ad banner section, and I noticed with amusement that the Graphic Designer looks exactly like the Bounty Hunter XD because the two jobs are so identical, right?
But I clicked the damn link after all, caving into the promise of higher education, since the bulk of positions being offered want some form of extensive web expertise, of which I have only a rudimentary understanding. I gave them all my contact info like a good phish and was disappointed it was one of those, "We'll have the peeps contact you," rather than actually being given a quote a la car insurance. I dunno, maybe I'm naïve about being able to fully automate stuff like, "We offer this and this and this program, which have X, Y, and Z classes you can take individually." Whatever, I went back to fixing breakfast.
TEN MINUTES LATER, a recruiter called me x_@
Figures, right? Peeps won't get back to you if it's about them giving you money, but you give them money, they're all over that like white on rice =/ I should prolly self-teach myself stuff, though, as futile as that's going to end up being, since Char isn't particularly supportive of the college route [not even the online type]. So basically I can expect at least three more calls about this, since the site turned up four programs.
Pseudo-riddle:
A philosophy question we were given once was a boat named Susan, or something to that effect: You have a boat, named Susan. It's made of wood, as boats are oft to be, and it deteriorates over time, as boats are oft to do. So you replace a plank of wood here and there, until eventually none of the original materials comprise Susan anymore. Is it still Susan?
Contrarily, instead of replacing Susan bit by bit, build a new boat entirely with the same materials that would have gone toward repairs, so you have a boat identical to Susan in every way. Is the new boat Susan?
The difference is, in the first example, you gradually change the concept of "Susan" until [unless you're a purist] you adopt the new bits of Susan as part of the old. In the second, the materials were never part of Susan.
Contextually, I think it had to do with the concept that all people are made of the same stuff, in which case it couldn't be possible to take the same stuff and reconstruct every person who's ever lived at the same time in Heaven or wherever. I believe this--I don't think people go to Heaven or Hell after death but instead are put back into the same lifestream from which everything comes, the same way we're still breathing the same air Julius Caesar and Jan van Eyk and Abraham Lincoln once breathed.
In practice, it's how Charles believes Sonic Team doesn't exist anymore. Sure, they replaced some peeps, but it's not the same by far. [I believe the same in the Susan example--you slowly don't have a Susan anymore, but something that looks like it.]
Otherwise, I'm taking as much of a computer break as an e-mail addict can take--the scrapbook still needs a cover, after all, even if the cold has made me unwilling to do much. [Strange how heat does the same thing...]