Feeling Uncommunicative

[dr_tectonic]

Feel like I ought to post something, but don't have much to say.

I'm currently working on Wyrms stuff while Jerry plays Silent Hill 4 (yeek) in the living room. Last night we did some 4-player X-Men with the Joneses & Kate.

Made fish for dinner last night; might go make some more in a minute here. I had the thought today that I think my metabolic preference might be 4 meals a day: breakfast around 8, lunch around noon, dinner around 4, and supper around 8. Unfortunately, the rest of the world doesn't seem to agree with that, which is inconvenient.

Various groups at work tend to eat lunch together. (I eat with my group when I manage to go to lunch at the same time they do, which isn't often.) One group, I've noticed, often discusses politics, and I was pondering why I find that so unappealing. I guess because it seems totally pointless -- there don't seem to be many topics these days where you can have an opinion but still get somewhere by discussing it with someone who disagrees. Everything is too polarized.

Hunh. Guess I managed to say something after all.

Comments

[dpolicar]

there don't seem to be many topics these days where you can have an opinion but still get somewhere by discussing it with someone who disagrees. Everything is too polarized.
You're wrong!
Wrong, wrong, wrong!
Not only that, you're stupid too!

The thing about polarization is it gets in the way of light.

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

Does it get in the way of light, or does it just slant it? (Or add spin, if it's circular polarization...)

<grin> back atcha, though I think yours isn't showing up. =)

[dpolicar]

Yeah, mine is an invisible grin. I'm the opposite of a cheshire cat.

And I thought the idea was that polarized lenses only allowed a fraction of light through (that fraction which is naturally aligned with the direction of polarization), not that it refracted-or-whatever the light... but what do I know? I was just going for the metaphor.

[arcticturtle.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the increasing polarization of politics is due to the circular reasoning used by spin doctors.

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

Ow. Ow ow ow.
Ow.

[ocschwar.livejournal.com]

I am sooooo glad nobody I work for wants to talk politics at work. Except for one lady. Who is tenured. And who doesn't quite realize that as support staff, I am essentially her servant. And one should not ask the help about politics. Grr...

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

Hey, it could be worse; you could have a bunch of people talk at you at lunch about politics in which they have no say, and for which they'll blame you for the result.

(I'm eating in my office a lot these days...)

[dpolicar]

Well, when it comes to the national election, MA is about as irrelevant as Canada... :-)

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

Which, since I vote in MA, is what I tell them, typically.

(I dunno. I should probably go flame about this in my own damn journal...)

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

Ooo, lucky you.

[bryree.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you are still working on Wyrms!