Useless Conversation

[Yegolev]

It would be the freedom to to anything, not to do nothing.  I'd have plenty to do, as a homeowner.  I could also join a baseball league for grown men, or golf, or get all into fixing the lawn.  I could learn to mod my car.  Maybe finish up some of these games I haven't been able to work on.  Finish out the basement.  Build that pool house my wife wants.

It occurred to me that Dwarf Fortress looks like work if it's not scrutinized closely.  Sure as shit doesn't look like a game.

[Signe]

Ironwood can't go back to school.  He'd scare the other children.

[Yegolev]

Are you saying he would need formal education to accomplish any of those things?  Because ouch.

[Morat20]

Sheesh, I need to move jobs.  Getting paid for doing fuck all and despite what some might think, that's not good.

If I ever came into enough money that I could quit my job and not work anymore, I think I would actually go crazy. I have zero interest in working from home, I go nuts when I have too much downtime, and I need to social interactions of a workplace (even if they aren't always positive).

I guess I'd go back to art school or something, but I cannot imagine not doing ANYTHING anymore.

I'd get a doctorate and look for some university or community college and teach. If I couldn't do that, I'd have to turn into some sort of serious hobbyist or something. I couldn't sit around doing nothing either.

[Signe]

I'd move somewhere warm and open a pot shop.  Call it something like The Kozy Kushion or some other totally stupid name.  I'd make my employees wear black waxed jeans and pot shaped pasties.  Maybe The Spiffy Spliff.  Giant bongs.  Oh well... one can dream, no?

[Nebu]

I'd get a doctorate and look for some university or community college and teach.

 

[Merusk]

This reminds me of the old exercise where you're supposed to say what you'd do if you had no money concerns at all. Whatever you say is what you're really supposed to be doing with your life.

I say nope, it's what I'd like to be lazy at and not concerned about paying my bills doing. Completely different from the stress and panic of, "oh fuck we didn't sell enough now I'm going to starve."

If I had enough money to not work anymore, I'd open up a shop or restaurant of some sort.  I'd really dig owning a laundry/ theater/ brewery combo near a college.

[Sky]

I see a lot of seniors that are totally lost once they lose their 'job identity'.

I like my job (most days), but if I retired right now I don't have enough time to pursue everything I'd like to. Retirement is wasted on a lot of people.

Whether it's painting or exploring more involved musical options, or travelling or any one of a million things I'd like to learn. Actually, if I won the lottery today I'd probably go on the road with some gypsies to work on my guitar skills. And start smoking pot again immediately.

[Morat20]

I'd get a doctorate and look for some university or community college and teach.

 

Programming -- computer science. Not like...politics or something. :) My Master's is in CS and I enjoy the research side of it, it's just I have a family and can't afford to try academia. I don't give a flip about tenure or prestige, I just want someplace I can futz around with the stuff that interests me (genetic programming primarily, with some of the other machine learners running a close second) as a 'job'. The teaching bit is so I don't feel entirely useless to society. :)

Plus my wife's a truly excellent teacher, and with her coaching I think I could probably convey knowledge to actual college students in a non-damaging way. :) I certainly can't be any worse than some of the professor's I've had in the past.

[Signe]

Don't worry, Sky, you can work in my pot shop.  We'll have an open mic night just for you.  And the gypsies, too.  We'll get you a caravan so you can go on the road during the summer.  You and you're lovely fiancee can live over top and inhale for free.

[Nebu]

Plus my wife's a truly excellent teacher, and with her coaching I think I could probably convey knowledge to actual college students in a non-damaging way. :) I certainly can't be any worse than some of the professor's I've had in the past.

I'm positive that you'd be an excellent teacher.  I think that the weight of administrative bullshit would be the problem.  If all I had to do was teach, being a professor would be the easiest job in the world.  As a scientist, teaching is about 20% of my position and most of the remaining 80% is drudgery.  I'm not even going to comment on student apathy, whining, and complete lack of preparation.  A full half of my students have no business being in a college classroom (based on algebra, reading, comprehension, and analytical skills).

Now... if I could land a position at a top tier liberal arts university, I'd be in heaven.  That has always been my dream job, but the competition for those positions is ridiculous. 

[Morat20]

Oh that. I don't really care about that. I mean in the sense of "I don't think it'd really bother me". I couldn't teach high school or junior high because the level of caring (or fake caring) required is so much higher.

It's their choice, their money, and I'd be perfectly happy to be flexible up to a certain point. (Which is, I am sure, not as far as the average student thinks I should be).

And unlike some jerks I could name, when I say "office hours" I'd mean "Hours I will be in my office available to students, unless I am in the restroom in which case wait five minutes" and not "Hours during which you can make an appointment a week ahead of time, but otherwise I will not be around".

Seriously, pissed me off so much. Assholes who weren't in their offices during posted office hours EVER.

[Soln]

Don't worry, Sky, you can work in my pot shop.  We'll have an open mic night just for you.  And the gypsies, too.  We'll get you a caravan so you can go on the road during the summer.  You and you're lovely fiancee can live over top and inhale for free.

Move to WA State.  We're Legal and open for business next year.   

[Ingmar]

I'd find plenty to do. Volunteer at the zoo, learn how to take pictures that aren't totally shitty, get more practice in outside of class time for kendo, farm achievements, the list goes on and on.

[Sky]

Don't worry, Sky, you can work in my pot shop.  We'll have an open mic night just for you.  And the gypsies, too.  We'll get you a caravan so you can go on the road during the summer.  You and you're lovely fiancee can live over top and inhale for free.

Periwinkle blue.

[Yegolev]

I did forget travel.  Lots to see.  Long list of parks, monuments, etc.  There is also a car club that I'd like to spend a lot of time in.

Pretty sure owning a shop would be a nightmare, or I'd be the worst one ever.

You and you're lovely fiancee

Sheesh.  You?

[Merusk]

You could sell orange tuxes.

[Yegolev]

I bet I could.  I can't overstate how well that evening went.

Does anyone here have the last name Mantooth?  Because that's awesome.

[Signe]

Yes, I've been typo-ing all day today.  I'm in a mood.  Plus my Lister had three teeth extracted yesterday and he's been attached to me all day.  Nothing like trying to type stuff with a gigantic pussy crawling all over you.  Just try it and you'll understand!

[WayAbvPar]

I know how you feel...last time i try to get some work done at the strip club lunch buffet, I can promise you.

[Yegolev]

Can't compete.

[schild]

Last night I saw Geto Boys followed by Masked Invader, The Flatliners, Teenage Bottlerocket, and Less than Jake. Tonight I'm probably going to a club where Baauer is spinning with a bunch of other fools followed by The Sword and Smashing Pumpkins. SXSW is fucking weird, every goddamn year.

[Signe]

Love Geto Boys.  Lucky you!  I heard Suicidal Tendencies played a surprise gig somewhere in Austin last night.   I don't know Masked Invader unless you meant Masked Intruder who I also don't know much about but I've heard of them.  On a whim, I searched for "events in Texas" or something and the first things that came up for me were some Pokemon trading card competition and a Grilled Cheese Sandwich event.  You live in a weird state. 

Speaking of music... I didn't have any stereo stuff anymore (I always considered the stereo stuff to be Gordon's anyway) and I was tired of listening to stuff on the computer or with earphones on the iPod so I got one of those docking stations.  It's a Philips and I'm surprised at how nice the speakers are.  Not ideal, I miss the warm sound from the quads, but at least it's not awful.  And my iPod has it's own home.  :)

[schild]

Intruder, yes. Had just woken up.

[schild]

Went to The Illmore last night. Big timed the whole line because we're friends with the security folks. Saw Just Blaze, Wacka Flocka, Chanel West Coast, Young Guru, and Macklemore in a room no bigger than my living room in Arizona. I feel like I did SXSW right and everyone else did it wrong. VIP or nothing, folks. Just Blaze put on a fucking clinic for the rest of these jokers who absolutely couldn't do shit after he was done. He was so fucking good.

[Merusk]

Facebook is sometimes good for making your day a little more bizarre than you remembered.

For example, the girl who was 2 classes under me in High School celebrating her 24th wedding anniversary today.   No, that's not a typo. Once I saw it I remembered hearing it but thought it was a lie at the time.  Newp! (For the record I'm 39 this year, making her between 13 and 14 when married.)

[Yegolev]

That's why FB makes me ill.

I have a cloth napkin that came from Tyler Perry's house.

[schild]

Also, the Illmore was in a house that looked like a plantation home.



I was very upset they weren't smart enough to come up with the name Montichillo.

[Hammond]

Looks like a lot of Greek fraternity houses I have seen.

[Signe]

You should have gone to San Fransisco to see Michelle Shocked instead.  Just for the laughs!

[Ingmar]

People are going CRAZY over that shit here, let me tell you.

[HaemishM]

So apparently we are getting a hail storm right this fucking minute. The only time I've ever seen it this dark during the day is when I was in a tornado at the age of 8. The "high-rise" (13 floors) building I'm in now is getting pummeled. It sounds like I was thrown in a metal garbage can and rolled down a very bumpy hill.

[Chimpy]

Are you sure it isn't a rain of frogs?

[Surlyboi]

Went to The Illmore last night. Big timed the whole line because we're friends with the security folks. Saw Just Blaze, Wacka Flocka, Chanel West Coast, Young Guru, and Macklemore in a room no bigger than my living room in Arizona. I feel like I did SXSW right and everyone else did it wrong. VIP or nothing, folks. Just Blaze put on a fucking clinic for the rest of these jokers who absolutely couldn't do shit after he was done. He was so fucking good.

In Wacka's defense, if he was as wasted as he was when I saw him last week, I'm surprised he could even string a complete sentence together.

[schild]

Wacka is pretty much a goon idiot in person. I expected better. Basically everyone was better than him. Including Chanel West Coast. Who I renamed #muffincoast because I've never seen someone who was up and coming in the hip hop community rock a muffin top so hard.

Also, I left the party at like 5:15AM after being there for a solid 6-7 hours. Apparently 20 minutes after I left, Justin Timberlake, P Diddy and fucking Prince showed up.

Protip: Never leave the Illmore. Even if you can't feel your legs anymore.

Note: No, I won't help anyone get in next year.