| dear current job: |
[7th. Feb, 2011 . 05:22 pm] |
thank you for teaching me so much about the kind of life i don't want to lead, and the kind of person i don't want to be.
best wishes,
maya
addendum: on the way home, i heard an interview with a tunisian citizen about the trickle-down corruption there. he said "a rotten fish starts from the head." this seems relevant somehow. |
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| farting our way into the spotlight. |
[9th. Apr, 2009 . 01:33 am] |
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"Kids today. They have no sense of shame. They have no sense of privacy. They are show-offs, fame whores, pornographic little loons who post their diaries, their phone numbers, their stupid poetry—for God’s sake, their dirty photos!—online. They have virtual friends instead of real ones. They talk in illiterate instant messages. They are interested only in attention—and yet they have zero attention span, flitting like hummingbirds from one virtual stage to another."
""When it is more important to be seen than to be talented, it is hardly surprising that the less gifted among us are willing to fart our way into the spotlight," sneers Lakshmi Chaudhry in the current issue of The Nation. "Without any meaningful standard by which to measure our worth, we turn to the public eye for affirmation.""
""Whenever young people are allowed to indulge in something old people are not allowed to, it makes us bitter. What did we have? The mall and the parking lot of the 7-Eleven? It sucked to grow up when we did! And we’re mad about it now.” People are always eager to believe that their behavior is a matter of morality, not chronology, Shirky argues. “You didn’t behave like that because nobody gave you the option.”"
"“Why not? What’s the worst that’s going to happen? Twenty years down the road, someone’s gonna find your picture? Just make sure it’s a great picture.”"
"And after all, there is another way to look at this shift. Younger people, one could point out, are the only ones for whom it seems to have sunk in that the idea of a truly private life is already an illusion. Every street in New York has a surveillance camera. Each time you swipe your debit card at Duane Reade or use your MetroCard, that transaction is tracked. Your employer owns your e-mails. The NSA owns your phone calls. Your life is being lived in public whether you choose to acknowledge it or not."
"For someone like me, who grew up sealing my diary with a literal lock, this may be tough to accept."
"But under current circumstances, a defiant belief in holding things close to your chest might not be high-minded. It might be an artifact—quaint and naïve, like a determined faith that virginity keeps ladies pure. Or at least that might be true for someone who has grown up “putting themselves out there” and found that the benefits of being transparent make the risks worth it."
"Shirky describes this generational shift in terms of pidgin versus Creole. “Do you know that distinction? Pidgin is what gets spoken when people patch things together from different languages, so it serves well enough to communicate. But Creole is what the children speak, the children of pidgin speakers. They impose rules and structure, which makes the Creole language completely coherent and expressive, on par with any language. What we are witnessing is the Creolization of media.”" “I think there may actually be real neurological changes involved.”" |
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[24th. Mar, 2009 . 02:19 am] |
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| i made my fortune in san francisco. |
[19th. Mar, 2009 . 07:32 pm] |
while i was in san francisco, i got a lot of fortunes, including several from various fortune teller machines like the one in 'big'. here are 2 of them.
the wizard's predictions :
you are a born leader and have the power to sway people but sometimes there are difficulties in controlling your own destiny. first, high in the clouds when things go right and in the depths of despair when not so good. your sunny manner can cheer others and make them laugh while all the time you may be inwardly grieving. great actors and actresses possess this ability and it may be well to direct your effort in this line of endeavor. you should follow your intuitions for they are usually reliable. however, don't confuse impulse with intuition and plunge into situations without forethought. the little details that annoy you must be attended to before the opportunities for big things come your way. the home environment should take on added importance, become more attractive to you soon. there may be a new home, or new things to make the old place more comfortable, beautiful, and enjoyable. a tip: love is what you make it, you're capable.
your fortune :
you emerge from your recent fog and get down to business. life becomes more serious and realistic. if a person takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
there is need for good business judgment now. when things are going well, it is all too easy to become over-confident and not give proper attention to one's duties. if this tendency is recognized early it may be corrected and no harm will be done. you will also find time after business is settled for friends or lovers. it is easy to see, hard to foresee.
your lucky numbers: 03, 13, 16, 22, 34, 32 |
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| what i learned on/from vacation, part 2. |
[22nd. Feb, 2009 . 06:50 pm] |
what ever happened to predictability?
the milkman, the paper boy, evening tv.
how did i get to living here?
somebody tell me please.
this whole world's confusing me.
clouds as mean as you ever seen,
and a bird who knows your tune.
then a little voice inside you whispers
'kid don't sell your dreams so soon!'
everywhere you look
(everywhere you look)
there's a heart (there's a heart),
a hand to hold onto.
everywhere you look
(everywhere you look)
there's a face of somebody who needs you.
everywhere you look.
when you're lost out there and you're all alone,
a light is waiting to carry you home.
everywhere you look.
(is this the precursor to 'all is full of love'?) |
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| i love all of you. |
[13th. Feb, 2009 . 12:16 pm] |
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leaving now to go to san francisco and athens. wish me a safe and happy trip! |
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