Z.Monkey’s Blog

I am in a state of excited expectation. For those who know me I am sure you can guess what I am expecting and why it has me excited. For the most part I dont think that moving will make me a better person (I will still complain incessantly) nor do I care if it did. All I care about is making my life and my wife’s life more comfortable (read: less cold, less hot, bigger, brighter, newer, more vistaed), which I hope this new place will do.

But in the short term, I think moving is making me a worse person. I do not mean that I am now kill judges or molesting boys. I mean that I am not doing things that I normally would simply because I can say, ‘I’ll do that after we move’. I guess any reason can be used to procrastinate.

Anyways, less than a week and a half before the move, then there’s probably a party because… why not?

Z. Monkey

I saw this over at slashdot. Apparently something good may come out of the copyright office. By the way, fuck you Sunny Bono and your mouse fetish. There is no need for copyrights to any longer than a persons life plus maybe 20 years, but fucking 70 years (95 if you are a corporation).

Fuck you.

Z. Monkey

P.S. Eat shit.

Morbidity Warning.

My co-workers and me often partake in the B. On the last occasion I observed that a professor died in a car accident (in which another of my co-workers was apparently involved) on the way to the University last Tuesday or Wednesday. This brought about some reminiscing about college days, inparticular the dive a student took off of one of the dorms. The University’s response to this not-so-accident was to have a candle light vigil and pave over the blood stain (it was parents weekend and they did not want to upset any parents). Mr. Bino expressed dismay at this stating that he would have liked to take a picture with the stain… perhaps even posing with the stain and pretending it was his own blood. Now we all understood this as a jest, and it really should be taken as such, but I was not suprised when his alignment thing returned the following:

For those who think it is unacceptable to jest about death, I say, “If you cannot laugh in the face of death…”. I really have no justification, but I am open to suggestions.

Z. Monkey

Apparently I am! Try it yourself! I am stealing links from bastardface again, but I am sure I do not care. Oh, and I also stole the following from his weblog… as mine was almost the same.

You scored as True Neutral. A True Neutral person has two faces- either these people are merely apathetic, preferring to focus their minds on more important things, or these people truly believe in a balance of all things. To these people, there can be no light without some darkness. These people also have no dedication to, or intrinsic distrust of, laws.

It appears, unfortunately, that we are similar. Maybe this is why I never took his God worship seriously. Honestly though, I think that I am true neutral because if I actually cared about stuff going on around, such as a the occupation, redistricting and micro-monolopy, I’d get ulcers. Besides, with corporate friendly judges being appointed to life-long positions, what can one person (not backed by a massive amounts of money) do? I once again apologize for linking to crap.

Z. Monkey

So that everyone knows, I am in an off mood. Shoveling and waiting for fuckups to get towed off the road are not good things to do right after you wake up. God damn it I want to move. Can I make it two and a half more weeks?! I got a 5 spot that says I will.

Contrary to the title I will not be remembering when (though I do not have any adverse feeling towards that activity), it is simply something that came in one ear and out my fingers. Recently I have been busy, not simply at work but at home as well, but I will not be writing about this either.

Instead I will write about stubborn people. My recent observations have lead me to believe that spineless/ineffectual people are more stubborn than aggressive people, but only about certain things. I think that to make up for not getting their way all the time they take one or two things and defend them tooth and nail against all arguments. Who knew dictionary.com did banalities! Aggressive people, on the other hand, are more likely to get their way but less likely to care, i.e. they are more willing to do what is more reasonable and not defend a useless point.

I do not know opinion of aggressive people is correct, as almost all the people I work with are spineless. So all I am sure of is that spineless people make it difficult to get shit done because they will not speak up unless forced to and they defend stupid shit with a passion. I think they like to make themselves out as martyrs. bleg.

Z. Monkey

P.S. Oh, and religious zealots/fanatics/devotees/whatnots are the most stubborn people I know… who else could believe in something so abstract a God, with a “book” (good or no) for proof. I book most likely written over a long period of time by multiple people with different agendas. Suggested reading: Interpreting the New Testament, Interpreting the Old Testament both by Daniel J. Harrington.

I have changed the width of the weblog as part of my slow but continuous modification of the template. If it is to wide for your screen change your resolution or go away and cry… I care not which.

As for my relative happiness theory, a day’s observation only seems to reenforces its trueness-osity. Everyone is taking joy at other people getting fired or mispeaking or what not. Perhaps this is not quite the same thing… more of schadenfreude about a single event and not the basis for ones entire mental attitude. As our existence is made up of a bunch of events one could say…

But I will not say… any idiot could come up with such tripe. I will just say that I want it to be warm where I live (my apartment, I dont mind the cold as long as it stays outside) and as it refuses to be my wife and I are moving. I may have already said something about this but I am excited about the possibility of living someplace better and I feel the need to repeatedly say it.

Z. Monkey

I have been reading Voltaire’s Candide recently and I have the sense that he (Voltaire) has difficulty with happiness and wisdom/learning. Candide wanders the world getting shit on while attempting to figure out the world and why it was created (’to torment me’), why we exist, why evil exists, etc? Normal philosophical questions. At the end of the story Candide decides it is better to not think and just work… work is what makes a person happy and thinking is what makes a person miserable. Hmmm…

I had a point when I started writing this but I was interrupted by recursive cows and a discussion of the worth, or lack there of, of one of the graduate students employed by my employer.

Ah, there it is. One of the ideas that seems to come up quite a bit in Candide (other than mocking Leibnitz) is the idea that ones happiness is relative to other people (i.e. I am less miserable than that guy so I must be happy). While it does not appear that Voltaire supported this idea, I think that I will use it to simplify my view of the world. It shall be called the Theory of Relative Happiness.

Z. Monkey

P.S. What is the only word which contains ’spb’ (in that order)?

Please excuse the links in this log of web… I was too lazy to find good ones.