Jet-lagged

Completely overslept this morning making me almost late for work if it wasn’t for the intervention of an awesome friend. This oversleeping + maybe the time change last night, has put me into semi jet-lag. It was dark so early it threw me off.

Today is Sunday, and therefore always my worst day of the week. However tomorrow I think I am going to look in “upping” my career position in a few different ways. I was looking at where I was with school and my job and realized its not as bad as I thought… actually I’m doing really well compared to lots of other people my age. I don’t know why sometimes I just feel I’m not where I could be. (Maybe I will always be in that state no matter where I am?)

Reading “The Plague” by Albert Camus this week and seem to be flyin’ through it pretty damned fast. I need another hobby besides computers and reading… Maybe I’ll start building my Steam Punk costume for next Halloween so I’ll actually have something to wear!! But before I can I need to make and emergency trip to Japan and go see a guy about this watch:

Yes, it will be mine.

See his other watches at

 http://www.eager-beavers.net/products/shouhin_guide.cgi?temp=TMP0

Swords and laserz

 

Veronica belmont and Tom Merritt (Two of the best tech podcast hosts out there) founded the Sword and Laser, which is a SciFi/ Fantasy book club.    0.o    I’m so in.   The first book? the Golden Compass. Perfect seeing how the movie is just around the corner…. Note to self; bookstore tomorrow.

PS: Veronica and Tom… Good on ya. 
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Sisyphus

 “There is no noble love but that which recognizes itself to be both short-lived and exceptional.” -Albert Camus

This is an excellent quote from the Albert Camus book “The Myth of Sisyphus“. You could take this in two ways, love in a realationship and love of life. Like Sisyphus does, you should live both of these expierences to the fullest, even though both (Life and Love) are inevitably short-lived and at times meaningless.

Sisyphus’ fate of forever push a rock up a mountain is no less absurd than people going to the same meaningless job doing the same tasks and habits, but like Camus says “But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious”.

photo via Luna Park

Squirrel

Got a metaphysical problem for you. 

There is a squirrel clinging to one side of a tree trunk, on the opposite side a man stands. This man tries to get sight of the squirrel by rapidly moving round the tree, but no matter how fast he is the squirrel moves just as fast to the in the opposite direction. Always keeping the tree between the man and himself, so the man never see’s the squirrel.

The problem? Does the man go around the squirrel or not?

He goes around the tree sure, and the squirrel is on the tree but does the man go around the squirrel.

From Pragmatism -William James

11 bucks

Well, I don’t know why but I can shift my moods pretty easily… Seems like the only thing that relaxes me is either listening to music   or  reading philosophy books. Either one can make things seems more in the present. Make me focus more on the present and not elsewhere.

 My hero? Right now Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Cause he is an insecure, paranoid guy but is not afraid to let everyone else know what he thinks about the world. Even if it did cost him everything. His books were burnt because he thought that umong other things religion should not play a part in a child’s development. Agreed.

I recommend to anyone faintly interested pick up  Rousseau’s Dog, it goes into both sides of his story and his battle with David Hume. Got it for 11bucks at a used book store. Worth it!

Bad things.

I think even though I am most definitely interested in computer programming certain subjects that that look at life through an abstract goggles can make me just as happy. 

I said in my previous post that I am reading some really great books on philosophy. So far my favorite thinkers are Kant, Rousseau, Pope and maybe Hume…

Rousseau is who I’ve been reading the most because he tends to look at the beginning of everything, try to see how man became so messed up and capable of so many bad things. Looking at the earliest of man to discover what event changed us from the savage who only cared about himself to the civilized man who looks on other people with jealously and envy.

Rousseau has two books I would recommend reading, they are like the problem and the solution. The first one is “Discourse on Inequality” and the second is “Emile“.