Your momma gave you eyes to look around. Your momma gave you ears to listen to sound...
Happy Birthday Jai! May your travels be exciting, numerous, and involve you not having to pay bail. ... And hopefully only involve idiots who give you fascinating stories of their stupidity, rather than badger you into insensibility with their moronic activities.
I know more than a few people who use their PDA's, mobiles, mp3 players or other tech-gear as some sort of up-to-date diary/to-do-list. I find that fascinating on one level, but also one step away from an Obsessive/Compulsive disorder. Can you honestly have all these little alarms and alerts popping up at you every half hour every day?! Wouldn't you just get sick of the whole continual alert until you threw the gadget out the window in an attempt to get away from the continual noise?
Ever since I got my Blackberry a month ago or so, I've been attempting to use it to organise my life. Since getting used to the habit of writing in my diary back in those halcyon days of high school, I've found myself extremely unorganized whenever I didn't have a diary to write down future events or priorities. The continual alarms or missed alerts I've had in two days just had me abandoning the entire scheme of using such a small piece of tech to abandon my pen and paper days. The advantages just seem to be outweighed by the sheer convenience of being able to write. ... Though given that many find my hand writing close to indecipherable, perhaps it's more of an attempt in cryptography.
But I find myself pining for some days of pen and paper. Specifically, my days of roleplaying. From the traditional and restrictive arena of Dungeons and Dragons to the sci-fi skyscrapers of Shadowrun, from the free-for-all that GURPS represented, to the darker aspects of Vampire the Masquerade or the bloody warpath of Werewolf the Apocalpyse. Even the insane actions of Paranoia held a certain spot in my rampant geek urges. Exalted's anime-esque proportions and kung-fu-action-movie sort of battles weren't safe from my grasping hands and imagination. I even dabbled in LARPs for a couple of months. Apathy and general discomfort at having to act things out whilst in motion shortly cut that one off.
Business today seems rather enamored with the idea of the "paperless organization". An aspect which is heavily encouraged by various environmental groups and if I'm not horribly mistaken, the Kyoto Accord. Though it wouldn't be the first time I'm horribly mistaken. And yet when you take a look at the amount of repeated paperwork governmental organizations like Centrelink are willing to bludgeon the general public, that ideal seems to be getting further and further away.
Well that's it from me.
Toodles.
On a sidenote, those who think that the Warhammer Online experience is going to be a Warcrack ripoff, here's a rebuttal.
I know more than a few people who use their PDA's, mobiles, mp3 players or other tech-gear as some sort of up-to-date diary/to-do-list. I find that fascinating on one level, but also one step away from an Obsessive/Compulsive disorder. Can you honestly have all these little alarms and alerts popping up at you every half hour every day?! Wouldn't you just get sick of the whole continual alert until you threw the gadget out the window in an attempt to get away from the continual noise?
Ever since I got my Blackberry a month ago or so, I've been attempting to use it to organise my life. Since getting used to the habit of writing in my diary back in those halcyon days of high school, I've found myself extremely unorganized whenever I didn't have a diary to write down future events or priorities. The continual alarms or missed alerts I've had in two days just had me abandoning the entire scheme of using such a small piece of tech to abandon my pen and paper days. The advantages just seem to be outweighed by the sheer convenience of being able to write. ... Though given that many find my hand writing close to indecipherable, perhaps it's more of an attempt in cryptography.
But I find myself pining for some days of pen and paper. Specifically, my days of roleplaying. From the traditional and restrictive arena of Dungeons and Dragons to the sci-fi skyscrapers of Shadowrun, from the free-for-all that GURPS represented, to the darker aspects of Vampire the Masquerade or the bloody warpath of Werewolf the Apocalpyse. Even the insane actions of Paranoia held a certain spot in my rampant geek urges. Exalted's anime-esque proportions and kung-fu-action-movie sort of battles weren't safe from my grasping hands and imagination. I even dabbled in LARPs for a couple of months. Apathy and general discomfort at having to act things out whilst in motion shortly cut that one off.
Business today seems rather enamored with the idea of the "paperless organization". An aspect which is heavily encouraged by various environmental groups and if I'm not horribly mistaken, the Kyoto Accord. Though it wouldn't be the first time I'm horribly mistaken. And yet when you take a look at the amount of repeated paperwork governmental organizations like Centrelink are willing to bludgeon the general public, that ideal seems to be getting further and further away.
Well that's it from me.
Toodles.
On a sidenote, those who think that the Warhammer Online experience is going to be a Warcrack ripoff, here's a rebuttal.