rem kooldog
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 June 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
anBONEio gaudi
― scott seward, Friday, 29 June 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
Antoni Chow-di
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 29 June 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
JINX
yours is better, no jinx
great danish modern
― that's why Love made the weirdos (brownie), Friday, 29 June 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
dogggg
― Lamp, Friday, 29 June 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
art doggo
― aspiring barkitect (silverfish), Friday, 29 June 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
pawlladio
― wmlynch, Friday, 29 June 2012 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
fleas van der rohe
― wmlynch, Friday, 29 June 2012 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
st. bernard tschumi
― wmlynch, Friday, 29 June 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2011/05/22/sm_doghouse_0522_480x360.jpg
― scott seward, Friday, 29 June 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
Frank FURness
― scott seward, Friday, 29 June 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m28upohaeI1rsiucno1_1280.jpg
― s.clover, Saturday, 30 June 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
Arcatecture, . . . GO!
― nickn, Saturday, 30 June 2012 03:40 (eleven years ago) link
on the bubble here: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/the-busy-trap/
― s.clover, Sunday, 1 July 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
arfs & crafts movement
― that's why Love made the weirdos (brownie), Sunday, 1 July 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
The Busytown Trap
If your job wasn’t performed by a cat or a boa constrictor in a Richard Scarry book I’m not sure I believe it’s necessary.
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 1 July 2012 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
imho it goes a level deeper than this piece even dares to admit, people are not actually busy
― lag∞n, Sunday, 1 July 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
“The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That’s why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.” This may sound like the pronouncement of some bong-smoking anarchist, but it was actually Arthur C. Clarke, who found time between scuba diving and pinball games to write “Childhood’s End” and think up communications satellites. My old colleague Ted Rall recently wrote a column proposing that we divorce income from work and give each citizen a guaranteed paycheck, which sounds like the kind of lunatic notion that’ll be considered a basic human right in about a century, like abolition, universal suffrage and eight-hour workdays. The Puritans turned work into a virtue, evidently forgetting that God invented it as a punishment.
none of this is particularly radical or crazy
― iatee, Sunday, 1 July 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
I like the piece mostly
― iatee, Sunday, 1 July 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
Notice it isn’t generally people pulling back-to-back shifts in the I.C.U. or commuting by bus to three minimum-wage jobs who tell you how busy they are; what those people are is not busy but tired. Exhausted. Dead on their feet. It’s almost always people whose lamented busyness is purely self-imposed: work and obligations they’ve taken on voluntarily, classes and activities they’ve “encouraged” their kids to participate in. They’re busy because of their own ambition or drive or anxiety, because they’re addicted to busyness and dread what they might have to face in its absence. - opposite of my experience, maybe hang out w/ someone who's not rich and/or ted rall
― balls, Sunday, 1 July 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
the guy is a marginally successful cartoonist so I would bet he has friends whose marriages are not covered by the nyt
― iatee, Sunday, 1 July 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
i was just reading a guardian article about people working too much. it was pretty good. someone posted it on my facebook. dunno if i can find it now.
― scott seward, Sunday, 1 July 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
a better read of the article would be 'professional cartoonist proposes gov't guaranteed income'
xp
― iatee, Sunday, 1 July 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
ie what i literally hear from ppl who work crazy icu shifts or what i literally tell ppl when i've worked 14 hour (minimum) days for 7 days a week for a few weeks is that i am 'busy' (easy to picture turning his head quizzically at the word like a dog, or data from star trek: tng for an example more in his wheelhouse maybe). this busyness is tbf due to ambition and drive and maybe even anxiety over the potential that you might be unemployed or working a useless job you hate (esp if before the 'busy' job you actually did work a few of the busy jobs you hated, some of which actually did require taking the bus and did actually pay minimum wage). dread? if what you have to face in the absence is being a grown man that gleans insight from sci-fi and alt weekly cartoonists and then thinks this insight is worth an op-ed than yes, dread has now entered the equation.
― balls, Sunday, 1 July 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
that busytown thing is okay. he kinda has the disclaimer at the beginning about how he's not talking about miserable poor people who work too much. so he's covered and can rhapsodize about being lazy. i love being lazy too. i hate doing almost everything. so, i'm with him. does anyone know his cartoon stuff? never heard of him.
― scott seward, Sunday, 1 July 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
a better better read would be 'professional cartoonist made poor job choice, still can't figure out why, scoffs at ppl who have to put on pants to go to work, actually contribute to society, etc'
― balls, Sunday, 1 July 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
if you only have to work 4 or 5 hours a day and you work for yourself and you can make a living...you are doing things right.
― scott seward, Sunday, 1 July 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
arfs and crafts is hella good, btw.
― s.clover, Sunday, 1 July 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
there are plenty of highly paid professional jobs where your hourly productivity is not measurable by your boss/clients but your hours are. I've worked places where everyone was staying til 8 because they wanted to be the people staying til 8, not because it was particularly necessary - the office was awfully inefficient w/ its time during the day. when value becomes fuzzy - which can be the case for a lot of white collar labor - appearance is everything.
― iatee, Sunday, 1 July 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
ChanaAmsterdam, Netherlands
I have lived and worked in Europe for almost 12 years and will be returning to the U.S. soon. I have learned a great deal about how to live a life here. There is a palpable stress and tension in the air when you step off of a plane into the U.S. People are usually glum, usually overweight and cranky - and often worse. I contrast that with the calm and happy customer service I get here...even from people making a modest income by any standard and have to conclude that Americans have made a terrible mistake. They believe their own P.R. to their own detriment. We have *not* got it all right in America.
In Europe, a vacation is considered a health/work balance *necessity* - not a work *benefit* that you may (or may not) have a chance to use. People who do not take vacations are not looked up to here - they are actually viewed negatively - as people who do not have their life priorities in order.
As I leave here soon, I am moving to a small, organic farm in northern New York. I will work hard, I'm sure - but I have realized...I could never go back to a typical American life working for a company that offers me two weeks of vacation a year (ludicrous) - and who considers health care a "benefit" to be crowed about in their recruitment ads.
Thanks, Europe - for the invaluable experiences and life lessons. You may have your issues - so does the whole world - but you are still balancing them with grace for the most part.
― buzza, Sunday, 1 July 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
i think the quiddity article today was more
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/nyregion/its-a-goldman-world-in-battery-park-city.html?hpw
i mean, 'acquire spicy onion rings at 1 am'.
― j., Sunday, 1 July 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
here's the guardian thing on working too much. instead of alt cartoonists you get oscar wilde.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/01/why-are-we-working-so-hard
― scott seward, Sunday, 1 July 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
some people are busy, most people who say they are busy are not actually busy, theyre just unhappy
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 July 2012 13:49 (eleven years ago) link
i tell people im really busy a lot just because i dont want to see them
― max, Monday, 2 July 2012 13:49 (eleven years ago) link
too busy to reply sry max
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 July 2012 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
some other time?
lets shoot for next week?
― max, Monday, 2 July 2012 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
noodles?
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 July 2012 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
I just had a week of 10 hour days where I averaged 5 productive hours each day. OTOH I do sometimes have a 15 hour day where I'm productive most of the time I'm not in the bathroom or eating lunch.
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Monday, 2 July 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
eat lunch in the bathroom. saves time.
― scott seward, Monday, 2 July 2012 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
go to the bathroom in the lunchroom
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 July 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
This one's pretty much fish in a barrel, but hard to resist:
Meredith Yayanos, a musician and a founder of the alternative culture magazine Coilhouse, adapts her diet to influence her mood. "I love the idea that there's a mix and match going on," she said.
Ms. Yayanos first dropped gluten, sugar and carbs on a friend's advice after being mugged at gunpoint, a trauma that left her fending off panic attacks and depression. "Within 48 hours, it felt like a thick layer of gauze had been pulled off my brain," she recalled. Now Ms. Yayanos revisits that diet whenever her mood drops. She's noticed her friends experimenting with food, too, essentially "hacking" their bodies, tinkering with different fuels to reap feelings of clarity and energy.
But Fabio Parasecoli, a native of Rome and the coordinator of food studies at the New School, worries that diverse diets can kill the pleasure of shared meals. "For me, food is very social, and I would never show up at someone's place with Tupperware," he said. "It's difficult when dietary choices prevent people from fully participating in social life."
Meg Geldart, a circus acrobat in Portland, Ore., is determined not to let that happen. She frequently cooks meals with as many as 20 friends who are, variously, omnivorous, gluten free, dairy free, soy free, vegetarian, vegan, diabetic or allergic (to garlic, onions, nuts or legumes).
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 03:45 (eleven years ago) link
Ms. Yayanos first dropped gluten, sugar and carbs on a friend's advice after being mugged at gunpoint
worst friend ever
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 04:27 (eleven years ago) link
right? i am pretty sure the right answer to "I got mugged" is a shot of bourbon and a doughnut, not "good luck eating out for the rest of your life"
― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 05:57 (eleven years ago) link
no icecream wd be a bummer
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 06:04 (eleven years ago) link
maybe they stole her gluten, sugar and carbs tho
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 13:33 (eleven years ago) link
Exactly!
― I found him in a Bon Ton ad (Nicole), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 13:40 (eleven years ago) link
shame, she has some interesting links on twitter occasionally, none that I've seen about gluten-free
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 13:53 (eleven years ago) link