Comments on: Know Thyself

By: Head Geek

Head Geek — Mon, 18 May 2009 01:04:13 +0000

At that rate, by the time you find it, you’ll be too old to do anything more than say “oh, so that’s what I should have been doing all those years.”

By: Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:02:16 +0000

Well, obviously if safety was my only concern, I wouldn’t live in Brooklyn. I’ve been searching for my purpose in life, that’s been one of my main concerns the last 15 years or so.

By: Head Geek

Head Geek — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:08:43 +0000

You’re never going to be “safe.” At best, you can be safe from specific threats — such as, if you live in Missouri, you’re not likely to die from a tsunami any time soon, but that doesn’t make you any safer from being hit by a beer truck.

What’s your purpose in life? Discover that, and most of your major life decisions will have obvious answers. And there may be things that you’d sacrifice safety for once you’ve found it.

By: Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:00:03 +0000

I think I agree with that, though sometimes I think of living in Israel. (Though technically speaking Israel has a much lower crime rate than Brooklyn – so I’d actually probably be safer from bodily harm or death than in Brooklyn, considering how many people die from terror attacks vs. say car accidents there. Unless Iran develops nukes and decides to use them, but let’s not think about that… (Of course, if they did, Israel has about 80 nukes reportedly already; and the delivery vehicles and air force to deliver them with anywhere in the Middle East, as a deterrent, so you’d have to be suicidal to launch a nuclear attack at Israel. Of course, Iran does sponsor suicide bombing, but I’m not sure if even they would be willing to do that on a national level.)

By: Head Geek

Head Geek — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:29:52 +0000

Ah, but I never said I wanted to be a thousand miles from civilization — just a thousand miles from terrorists.

By: Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:49:30 +0000

Well, if you literally lived a thousand miles away from civilization, you’d soon learn how dependent you are on there being other people around. I’m not sure if you really want to hunt and grow all your food, try to make your own electricity, make your own clothes, etc. Not to mention keep up a high-tech lifestyle. And no matter how anti-social you are, you might start to hope for more human company.

By: Head Geek

Head Geek — Thu, 14 May 2009 04:09:31 +0000

Satellite Internet isn't that bad. My sister and her husband have it, and I used it for the week we were down there earlier this year. I'd rather not make it my only Internet connection, but if I could live where I wanted, it would be acceptable. But it's not going to happen anyway, GoddessJ needs to live in the city.

Not sure why your comment got http-ified, it must be a bug in the Markdown plugin that I'm using.

By: Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:40:15 +0000

For some reason my comment got “http://ftp” in it, I just put the letters F T and P.

By: Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:39:44 +0000

Actually, you’d be likely to have satellite internet, who’s latency is so bad that it’s not good for anything but FTP. (Even web means you ask for the page, wait a couple of minutes, then get it at light-speed. It’s fast, but latency is such because it goes back and forth to geocentric orbit – making it near-useless for anything but file transfers. Forget about Skype or other stuff of course…)

By: Head Geek

Head Geek — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:29:32 +0000

An acceptable price to pay.