So what would you do if you didn’t have to do anything? Say you’ve won the lottery, or someone solves the great problem of peace on earth and work becomes obsolete. Or maybe you just ascend to heaven, where you have all of eternity to do… what? What do you do when you aren’t required to do anything?
Monthly Archives January 2007
life
“A great man once told me, on a dark night, in a terrible storm – he said ‘Son, live every moment of your life like it is the very last one you’ll ever get’. Well, I’ve been in this cell for a week now, and damned if I’m not beginning to wonder about that advice.”
On a Lighter Note
I’ve been enjoying this webcomic lately:
I Drew This
Despite the rather philosophical bent of recent posts, I’ve been thinking politics a lot recently, and this one sums up well a lot of my own gut reactions to what I hear in the news.
I’ve always wanted to draw my own strip, but I know I don’t have the drawing chops, nor the devotion to keep it up. I respect those who can consistently turn out good comics, and if you are curious, here are a few like to read:
- Diesel Sweeties (social commentary, robots)
- Schlock Mercenary (science fiction)
- Sore Thumbs (absurdist social commentary)
- Superosity (even more absurd social commentary)
- Sluggy Freelance (adventure?)
I should also mention Goats, but with a caveat – I’ve only found the storyline interesting in the last few months, but there have been good comic moments throughout.
You might detect a pattern here, you might not…
What do you like?
culture = audience?
Electrons and Yellowstone National Park both struggle with a similar problem. By observation, the thing you wish to observe is changed.
I was struck while reading something in which a character considers traveling to several different cultures, to experience their unique characteristics. He was visiting localized cultures, physical land areas in which the people live in a certain way, with specific traditions and behaviors. This character also lives in a future of instantaneous travel from one point to another, across dozens of worlds – all of these cultures he visits exists in a framework where every other culture is easily available. We have a similar situation here and now in the real world. More and more, the artifacts, ideas, music and food of distant localities is available to us. Right here in Oregon, I can buy sushi, durian fruit, brie, Ethiopian coffee, and lichee flavored Chinese black tea. Immigrants have brought with them the flavors of their old world, and commerce takes care of the rest.