Comments on: Peter Lynds and Xbox and Life http://spoonfighter.com/archives/10 A funny, frequently updated blog from Denver, Colorado, about current events, politics, media, humor, ideas, entertainment and life. Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:07:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Peter Lynds and Xbox and Life by: pc http://spoonfighter.com/archives/10#comment-5 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:59:59 +0000 http://spoonfighter.com/archives/10#comment-5 hey gideon. good to see you got your own server. i've been reading your blog for a while now, but never really commented on anything. xbox: video games are good. to me, my ps2 provides that release from reality and the pressures of life. Although there is that percentage of sad individuals who need to escape the real world every second of their life. Those people I feel bad for, most of the time. life: i too feel that need to constatly build something. however, i have taught myself to build myself, in the form of further education and reading. besides the craving for grabbing a good power tool and chopping away at some wood and a finger, i have found that it is possible to build yourself and that your mind is a continous project. (had to get that philosophical stuff in somehow.) anyways, great page, hope you keep up with it. and yes, people do read these things, although i believe, with logs as my witness, that nobody reads mine. hey gideon.

good to see you got your own server.
i’ve been reading your blog for a while now, but never really commented on anything.

xbox: video games are good. to me, my ps2 provides that release from reality and the pressures of life. Although there is that percentage of sad individuals who need to escape the real world every second of their life. Those people I feel bad for, most of the time.

life: i too feel that need to constatly build something. however, i have taught myself to build myself, in the form of further education and reading. besides the craving for grabbing a good power tool and chopping away at some wood and a finger, i have found that it is possible to build yourself and that your mind is a continous project. (had to get that philosophical stuff in somehow.)

anyways, great page, hope you keep up with it. and yes, people do read these things, although i believe, with logs as my witness, that nobody reads mine.

]]> Comment on Peter Lynds and Xbox and Life by: db http://spoonfighter.com/archives/10#comment-4 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:59:59 +0000 http://spoonfighter.com/archives/10#comment-4 Hot Dog, Gideon's got a blog. Something new to read when I should be working, here's to your productivity, Gideon! Life: I know just what you're talking about. I see two approaches out of this, first is to concentrate my emotional, etc. energy into activities unrelated to work. Work becomes a way to support the rest. Or, two, re-enter the non-profit world. I was just discussing this last night -- finding a non-profit not only with a good mission, but that actually accomplishes it or makes real progress toward that goal. Now that will give some serious satisfaction, meaning, etc. Be careful what you wish for...might be so good to as endanger the home life! Everything in moderation, etc. (Footnote, a third option -- approach the corporate world not as a worker unit, but as a creator/owner. If you're the boss, if you have a good product or service to sell, it ain't so bad. Production is fulfilling.) I am in option one at the moment and see myself trying option two sometime in the next few years. Note, at first glance, option one may sound unfulfilling, but the first complements the second; the non-profit cannot live without the worker-types who donate. Hot Dog, Gideon’s got a blog. Something new to read when I should be
working, here’s to your productivity, Gideon!

Life:

I know just what you’re talking about. I see two approaches out of
this, first is to concentrate my emotional, etc. energy into activities unrelated to work. Work becomes a way to support the rest. Or, two, re-enter the non-profit world. I was just discussing this last night — finding a non-profit not only with a good mission, but that actually accomplishes it or makes real progress toward that goal. Now that will give some serious satisfaction, meaning, etc. Be careful what you wish for…might be so good to as endanger the home life! Everything in moderation, etc. (Footnote, a third option — approach the corporate world not as a worker unit, but as a creator/owner. If you’re the boss, if you have a good
product or service to sell, it ain’t so bad. Production is
fulfilling.) I am in option one at the moment and see myself trying option two sometime in the next few years. Note, at first glance, option one may sound unfulfilling, but the first complements the second; the non-profit cannot live without the worker-types who donate.

]]> Comment on Peter Lynds and Xbox and Life by: jq http://spoonfighter.com/archives/10#comment-3 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:59:59 +0000 http://spoonfighter.com/archives/10#comment-3 I love the URL. I totally agree with you on the wage slave thing. I manage a group of people that support people who support people who build semiconductors that go into products that people are generally indifferent to or unaware of. Its hard to get a lot of satisfaction out of that. I must build stuff - which is why I am always working on a car or some other project. I just put the wheels in motion to build a barn out at the farm. RE: Xbox. Don't feel guilty about playing video games. Think of it like a nice rich dessert. A little after dinner is OK. As long as you are not neglecting your wife or your job in order to play, it's OK. Play a game until you're tired of it. Then stop for a while and do other stuff. I have a friend who has let his business fall apart because he spends 40 hours a week playing World of Warcraft. You are nowhere near that. Cool Blog. I love the URL. I totally agree with you on the wage slave thing. I manage a group of people that support people who support people who build semiconductors that go into products that people are generally indifferent to or unaware of. Its hard to get a lot of satisfaction out of that. I must build stuff - which is why I am always working on a car or some other project.

I just put the wheels in motion to build a barn out at the farm.

RE: Xbox. Don’t feel guilty about playing video games. Think of it like a nice rich dessert. A little after dinner is OK. As long as you are not neglecting your wife or your job in order to play, it’s OK. Play a game until you’re tired of it. Then stop for a while and do other stuff. I have a friend who has let his business fall apart because he spends 40 hours a week playing World of Warcraft. You are nowhere near that.

Cool Blog.

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