I Condone the Use of Pictures

I will attempt to write something more substantial as my last couple post have been appalling. It looks like I will be going to Finland at the end of next month (26th to 29th of September)... I wonder if it would be easier/faster to fly out of Boston.

Anyway, more to the point. I just finished a book on the Great War, the War to End all Wars, or, as it is known today, World War I. The more times I read up on stuff like this the more I realize that nothing ever really changes. When there is a War or, in our case, an armed occupation of a country, there needs to be a compelling reason to fight. For WWII there was the attack by the Japanese and for the Civil War there was the South being stupid, i.e. A physical threat to the civilian population or the economy. I still do not know the reason for entering Vietnam or Iraq and I think that WWI also falls into this same 'What the fuck are we doing' category. There was no direct threat to the US population (thanks to the Atlantic Ocean), there was no direct threat to the Economy (we were making Billions financing the War), and the Bolsheviks were in Russian and did not come to power until after the US got involved.

To make the country ready and willing for war a huge propaganda program was created. This program played sections of the population against each other (Old Americans vs. Immigrants, Immigrants vs. Blacks) and gave everyone something to hate. End the end Wilson forced us into WWI to bring about his idealized future with Democracy for everyone and league of nations... he failed. This seems very similar to what is going on today. We have all given something to hate and something to fear, but what are we really fighting for? Is it something like Wilson's childish fantasy or something more grotesque?


The world may never know.

Objective Content

A new feature has appeared!



But what does it do?



Ah... but what does this mean? The answer points to this link, entitled The Wisdom of the Crowds. A strange title considering that another term for 'The Crowds' is 'The Mob', which has not wisdom. No link because I am lazy. Hmm...

There is no real point to this post because I really do not want to spend the time and effort putting my thoughts into written proses. I probably should take some time a do a long post about last week and about the coming weeks, but we will see.

Z.Monkey

Email This

As I sit here and wait for my email to download I thought that I would make a quick post. It was nice to not be at work for a little while, but now shit must be done. Sigh, I wonder how off track things are here at work. One of the guys here said that he would setup or have setup my new work area by today... it is not setup but I now have 6 new keyboards. Woooo...

Z.Monkey

Fuck Ya!

This will be my final post before my vacation. I am mildly worried that I will want to leave work so much that I will forget to do stuff that needs to be done (i.e. change the message on my phone, make sure there are people to handle stuff for me while I am away, e&c.). No, I take that back... I think that everything will be fine. I know a lot of people think that nothing gets done if they do not do it themselves... and these people are mostly correct. The one thing that they are missing is most people are too busy to notice that it did not get done. There are a few exception, of course, and I am currently in one of those, but everything will be fine.

Anyways, I will have no Internet access next week, which is wonderful because it will force me to stop checking email (if anyone ever tries to buy me a blackberry I will kick them in the junk). Anyways, I am sure that I will see many of you there. Have a wonderful week... Mwah Haha!

Z.Monkey

How Much Longer?!

There are only a couple of more days til we head down to the Cape of Cod. Some scenes from last year.











I do not really have much to say, other than I am having a difficult time concentrating here at work. I need to do stuff but my mind seems to have already stepped out.

Z.Monkey

Will Eat Lunch For Food

So it is lunch time and I am eating my chicken salad wrap and write to you all. I really do not know what I will write so this could, but most likely will not, be interesting. Lets see my agenda today goes something like this:

• 7:00am Run/try-to-kill-myself-with-this-ungodly-weather (I thought it'd be cool out a 7am!)
• 8:00am Shower
• 9:00am Work
• 9:30am Interview #1
• 11:00am Interview #2
• 12:00pm Lunch/Write this thing
  
• 1:00pm Finance Stuff for GEC/POE
  
• 2:00pm Continue Redo of Labview Code/Emails
• 4:00pm Interview #3
• 5:00pm Home/Dinner/Reading/e&c.
• 11:00pm CTS Call (maybe... I can't stand these late night calls)
• 12:00pm Sleep

I would now like to say that Egg Salad is much better than Chicken Salad. There are a couple of things that I would like to complain about but I will refrain, instead I leave you with this.

Z.Monkey

President Makes It Clear: Phrase Is 'War on Terror'

Thank you Mr. President.

Bush Remarks On 'Intelligent Design' Theory Fuel Debate

Thanks again Mr. President.

Post the Chicken

In a shocking bit of originality Microsoft has put a new webpage. You can make this your homepage and personalize it with lots of stuff... but it kind of sounds familiar.

Just a funny aside. Anyways, I feel like I have not been posting much lately. I do not have a really good excuse like moving across the globe and then losing my computer. I have just been busy with work and other stuff (hockey, softball, hiking, drinking, GW, wifing[?]) that is not porn. Of course, this is in contrast to Heidi who seems to have bad luck with getting jobs, at least ones that she actually wants. Not that she does not keep herself busy but I can only imagine how frustrating it is not be floating in limbo. I also think that going on vacation when you are not working would also be less than satisfying. Hmm...

Currently I am working harder than I have since I was in college, but when I was in college I could see breaks in the future (end of semester, graduation, e&c). Now I cannot really see any end. I see major accomplishments but the work does not stop. I see vacations but the work will still be there when I get back. I see weekends but they are never long enough and there is always stuff to do. Some guy put up this link up on another page and I can really see how just disappearing could be the way to go. Drop everything and completely start over. Hmm...

Good Night Moon.