a billion ways to go berserk
1. The new Hip album, World Container - I've heard good things. Anyone else get their ears on it yet? (I love how I expect that at least one of the Canadians on my f-list has heard it by now. I mean, I live in the Americanized southwest of Ontario where we convert Celsius to Fahrenheit when trying to figure out the temperature, and even I remember how, back in the day when I used to go out to bars and suchlike, almost everybody on the dance floor used to flip the fuck out whenever "Courage" came on.)
2. Leafs pound Habs in Original Six battle. Without Sundin, I might add. (Seriously though, guys, nobody else is allowed to get hurt, okay? Not for four weeks or even one. I have decreed it. And Peca! Watch out for those pucks, eh? Much love, fellas.)
3. I was helping D. out with his resumé and cover letter the other day, when I had this idea that I'm going to pretend is brilliant even though coming up with a plan to develop said idea is proving to be.. a slow process. Of course, that may have more to do with my own self-doubt than anything else. Anyway, I've spent so much time over the years helping other people with their resumés & cover letters that I think I could probably throw together some sort of resumé/cover letter-writing business. There are, of course, several problems with this idea, not the least of which is the cost of advertising. There's the issue of how much to charge, where to meet with potential clients (obviously it can't all be done online as I need some way to collect payment), etc. Plus, I had this idea that I could offer job search training - (ha ha, because I've had such a successful go of the whole job search thing, right?) - and other basic Internet/computer training, like I did at the library. I'd have to do that out of the library, for reasons of safety, and I don't know how cool the library people would be with that. Sooo, obviously the idea needs some... refining. Scott says I should go all out with a cost-profit analysis and the whole bit. *chuckles* Sure wish I hadn't thrown out all my business textbooks. This is what I'll be working on this week, any road, in addition to NaNoWriMo (yipes - funny how when I get started on one project all these other story ideas I never pursued keep popping up, like I get bored easily or something).
4. Scott and I finally saw An Inconvenient Truth last night. The conclusion - with the shot of Earth as a tiny speck of light in an infinite galaxy - brought tears to my eyes. It reminded me of Douglas Adams' analogy of humanity as a puddle in his speech "Is there an Artificial God?" He talks about how early man assumes that the world, because it fits him so nicely, must have been made especially for him. (I may have quoted this in here before, actually, but oh well.)
This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in-an interesting hole I find myself in-fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be all right, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for. We all know that at some point in the future the Universe will come to an end and at some other point, considerably in advance from that but still not immediately pressing, the sun will explode. We feel there's plenty of time to worry about that, but on the other hand that's a very dangerous thing to say. Look at what's supposed to be going to happen on the 1st of January 2000-let's not pretend that we didn't have a warning that the century was going to end! I think that we need to take a larger perspective on who we are and what we are doing here if we are going to survive in the long term. (Douglas Adams, "Is there an Artificial God?" 1998 speech)
Yeah. What he said. And if you haven't seen An Inconvenient Truth, you really should.
5. I ♥ Rashida Jones. *points to Karen icon* I'm not overly concerned about whether Karen ends up with Jim or not. I just want her to stick around. She's fun.
2. Leafs pound Habs in Original Six battle. Without Sundin, I might add. (Seriously though, guys, nobody else is allowed to get hurt, okay? Not for four weeks or even one. I have decreed it. And Peca! Watch out for those pucks, eh? Much love, fellas.)
3. I was helping D. out with his resumé and cover letter the other day, when I had this idea that I'm going to pretend is brilliant even though coming up with a plan to develop said idea is proving to be.. a slow process. Of course, that may have more to do with my own self-doubt than anything else. Anyway, I've spent so much time over the years helping other people with their resumés & cover letters that I think I could probably throw together some sort of resumé/cover letter-writing business. There are, of course, several problems with this idea, not the least of which is the cost of advertising. There's the issue of how much to charge, where to meet with potential clients (obviously it can't all be done online as I need some way to collect payment), etc. Plus, I had this idea that I could offer job search training - (ha ha, because I've had such a successful go of the whole job search thing, right?) - and other basic Internet/computer training, like I did at the library. I'd have to do that out of the library, for reasons of safety, and I don't know how cool the library people would be with that. Sooo, obviously the idea needs some... refining. Scott says I should go all out with a cost-profit analysis and the whole bit. *chuckles* Sure wish I hadn't thrown out all my business textbooks. This is what I'll be working on this week, any road, in addition to NaNoWriMo (yipes - funny how when I get started on one project all these other story ideas I never pursued keep popping up, like I get bored easily or something).
4. Scott and I finally saw An Inconvenient Truth last night. The conclusion - with the shot of Earth as a tiny speck of light in an infinite galaxy - brought tears to my eyes. It reminded me of Douglas Adams' analogy of humanity as a puddle in his speech "Is there an Artificial God?" He talks about how early man assumes that the world, because it fits him so nicely, must have been made especially for him. (I may have quoted this in here before, actually, but oh well.)
This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in-an interesting hole I find myself in-fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be all right, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for. We all know that at some point in the future the Universe will come to an end and at some other point, considerably in advance from that but still not immediately pressing, the sun will explode. We feel there's plenty of time to worry about that, but on the other hand that's a very dangerous thing to say. Look at what's supposed to be going to happen on the 1st of January 2000-let's not pretend that we didn't have a warning that the century was going to end! I think that we need to take a larger perspective on who we are and what we are doing here if we are going to survive in the long term. (Douglas Adams, "Is there an Artificial God?" 1998 speech)
Yeah. What he said. And if you haven't seen An Inconvenient Truth, you really should.
5. I ♥ Rashida Jones. *points to Karen icon* I'm not overly concerned about whether Karen ends up with Jim or not. I just want her to stick around. She's fun.
