Randomness

[blacknblue]

I don't think it's the work per se, so much as the stress. I know that I always felt more tired after ten hours in an office than I did after twelve hours of putting in hay or housing tobacco. Or cutting firewood for that matter.

[Distracted]

Sometimes I think our lives are just too complicated because of all of the conveniences we've created and the sheer complexity of living in the current century. Forty years ago there was no internet, and at most you got three TV stations and one radio station. There were no legal consents to fill out every time you turned around and when you hired someone you just paid them... no spending hours calculating FICA and Medicare withholding. When dishes were dirty you filled a sink and washed them. When clothes were dirty you fillled an unprogrammable washing machine and did the same. You worked hard all day and came home. If you were a married woman you stayed home, took care of the babies, cooked and cleaned. Maybe you watched a little TV or listened to the radio in the evening. Then lights went out and you went to bed because there wasn't much else to do and you were tired. Then you got up early again and did it all over again. No one worried about "me time" or recreation. Life was work. You did what you had to do to survive. Now we have so many "conveniences" that we've become spoiled. Our lives are filled with more recreational activities than we can shake a stick at. Look at me now. I'm online when I should be in bed so I can get up and go to church in the morning. Then I should clean my house and prepare my family's meals. Know what will probably happen instead? I'll stay up late tonight writing instead of sleeping, take everyone out for lunch tomorrow so I don't have to cook, and then spend more time on this computer than I should. Technology is self-perpetuating. It saves us time while simultaneously eating up all of our time bit by bit.

[hth2k]

When I worked in a fab shop I had lots of excess energy to burn. After I got my degree and moved up to the R&D lab I found the mental work much more draining. I was used up after a days work, 10 hours not unusual, designing new products and solving problems.

In the shop I just picke a job off the board, set it up, ran it in an almost brain dead mode. Just crank out parts one after another. Check every tenth one and if no problems continue.

In R&D I usually had 4-6 projects in various stages to manage and a deadline.

HtH

No industrial robots were used to prepare this post.

[Mitchell]

Sometimes I think our lives are just too complicated because of all of the conveniences we've created and the sheer complexity of living in the current century. Forty years ago there was no internet, and at most you got three TV stations and one radio station. There were no legal consents to fill out every time you turned around and when you hired someone you just paid them... no spending hours calculating FICA and Medicare withholding. When dishes were dirty you filled a sink and washed them. When clothes were dirty you fillled an unprogrammable washing machine and did the same. You worked hard all day and came home. If you were a married woman you stayed home, took care of the babies, cooked and cleaned. Maybe you watched a little TV or listened to the radio in the evening. Then lights went out and you went to bed because there wasn't much else to do and you were tired. Then you got up early again and did it all over again. No one worried about "me time" or recreation. Life was work. You did what you had to do to survive. Now we have so many "conveniences" that we've become spoiled. Our lives are filled with more recreational activities than we can shake a stick at. Look at me now. I'm online when I should be in bed so I can get up and go to church in the morning. Then I should clean my house and prepare my family's meals. Know what will probably happen instead? I'll stay up late tonight writing instead of sleeping, take everyone out for lunch tomorrow so I don't have to cook, and then spend more time on this computer than I should. Technology is self-perpetuating. It saves us time while simultaneously eating up all of our time bit by bit.

Sometimes I truely wish an EMP would set the Entire world back 50 years tech wise.
In fact, Ive been really tempted in the past few months to give up all together my computer. Since the only bussiness I do with it, is price Farm machinery, an other Ag related things.


I just think we all need to be Re-educated on what is truely is important again.
But that aint gona happen, Were all just gona continue to stare, or type into Idiot boxes till we shrivil up.

[TPoptarts]

Hey. At least with the "idiot box" I can actually talk to people. Who don't even hate me. (Yet ) Which is something that's like never gonna happen in real life

[Emberchyld]

There was a really interesting theory presented to me in a management class once-- that creativity is truly only born from adversity. So...humans have gotten lazy and our creativity has slumped. If we take away all of our nifty technology, we'd be forced to start inventing (or re-inventing) things. Kind-of like you create a hell on earth and watch as people try to turn it into heaven with what they have on hand.

Always did make me wonder about the Trek universe-- were the Eugenics wars necessary to create people like cochrane?

[Distracted]

I don't think so. I think that there are always freaky geniuses out there that don't think like the rest of us. I think that adversity sometimes brings them to the fore, though, because it's their out of the box thinking that comes up with the most creative solutions. I wonder, though, with today's focus on "convenience", how many geniuses we're either killing with abortion or marginalizing by doping them up and labeling them with ADD or Bipolar Disorder instead of just letting them be the gifted quirky people they were destined to be.

And T'Poptarts... if you keep talking like that we'll all just have to find out where you live and come visit. We'll make such nuisances of ourselves that you'll wish you'd NEVER griped about no one talking to you.

Seriously, though...go join a club or a church or something. You need some face to face friends.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

In fact, Ive been really tempted in the past few months to give up all together my computer. Since the only bussiness I do with it, is price Farm machinery, an other Ag related things.

You forgot hanging around at places like this, reading fanfic and looking at pretty pictures of Jolene!

[Rigil Kent]

Here's something for the X-Box gamers...

Even more than Halo 3, I'm looking forward to Mass Effect, due primarily to the fact that the geniuses at Bioware are doing it. Every game those guys put out is awesome. Hell, their Star Wars game (Knights of the Old Republic) felt more like Star Wars than any of the prequels!

The president of Bioware, while at E3 and discussing this game, likened your character to the "Jack Bauer of space".

Some wicked cool looks at the game can be found at Game Trailers.com

Now I'm gonna have to get an X-Box 360...

[TPoptarts]

And T'Poptarts... if you keep talking like that we'll all just have to find out where you live and come visit. We'll make such nuisances of ourselves that you'll wish you'd NEVER griped about no one talking to you.

Oh go ahead. This frelling zoo could use some intelligent life for a change. I know I wouldn't be complaining

[TSara]

And T'Poptarts... if you keep talking like that we'll all just have to find out where you live and come visit. We'll make such nuisances of ourselves that you'll wish you'd NEVER griped about no one talking to you.

Oh go ahead. This frelling zoo could use some intelligent life for a change. I know I wouldn't be complaining

Well next summer It looks like my sister and I might be heading out to LA.....

[TPoptarts]

Cool

(though LA is kinda boring actually )

[TSara]

Cool

(though LA is kinda boring actually )

I lived in LA one summer with my dad while he was going to school there in Downtown Hollywood....Like a block away from the Chinese Theatre.

For a 9 year old it was pretty cool.

My Aunt, Uncle and Cousins still live in LA. So I am going to visit them.

1st time in almost 10 years!

[TPoptarts]

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BRAIN SOAP BRAIN SOAP BRAIN SOAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just saw my frelling homeless cagemate Zombie making out with her 60 year old homeless junkie boyfriend!!!!! AND HEARD HIM TALKING ABOUT HOW HE WANNA MOVE IN HERE!!!!!!!!!!

[CoffeeCat]

Ewe. Even a good dose of slash could be brain soap for that.