Just spending a bit of a weekend with the mums, went out shopping to use up a pair of gift cards, ate a nice dinner. What a gift‽ "Hey, here's $25." "Gee, thanks!". Next thing I'm at the store spending $50 on top of that for things I suddenly "like".
Today's Vilma's birthday, but I couldn't be prepared for it, which I feel sorry for.
I wanted to really get the C.D. Payne book, "Youth in Revolt" but didn't have the notepad I wrote the title down on with me at the time. And! we found out that Barnes & Noble service is the worst in the world! Need a book? Don't ask those baboons. Can't remember a title, but just part of an author's name? Oh well. So as Starbucksy as Borders are, I think I'll stick to them. Hey, who really likes sitting like a lazy ass and shopping online all day long - you just can't browse and experience a book the same way. Books are like babies, they need to be held.
Tomorrow I will enter my metamorphoses, and like a dried, shriveled cocoon, I will leave behind my fun loving self and reconnoiter with the soul-selling tactics of the unemployed.
Ta ta.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Free Stuff
FREE!!!
I need to work out this theory a bit better, but there needs to be a Treatise on Free Items. Title needs work too, but it's interesting to think or conceivably study how people utilize free things. Be it tangibles or intangibles, people use - or misuse - free items. To maximize someone's utility of something, at no cost, leads to the true but illogical solution of infinite utilization. Even if this is over utilization for the given user.
Don't get me wrong, I love free. I have two sayings for example: "Nothing tastes better than free" and my new life motto (which happens to rhyme), "I don't believe I can say no to free". I love good deals, and I love free deals. I'll admit - even I fall victim to the irrational behavior of free-dom. But there are things we as a society have used too freely, and we have blundered our nest so to speak.
But I try to keep level headed, and keep things in perspective. Society is not 'you all' or 'all of them'. Society is me. I am society. Get it straight, society is composed of individuals, and all thoughts of democracy aside, the individual is what counts. It really does. And listen to Ghandi - be the change you want to see. So everyone - stop complaining about energy prices, and stop using so much! Demand and supply, yada yada yada, it's true but you need to dictate it yourself, every day, and not let others dictate it for you.
So enjoy free offers, free lunches and what have you, but watch what your taking and see what effect your unlimited free consumption of something has - after you've overdone yourself, and after we've all overdone ourselves.
I need to work out this theory a bit better, but there needs to be a Treatise on Free Items. Title needs work too, but it's interesting to think or conceivably study how people utilize free things. Be it tangibles or intangibles, people use - or misuse - free items. To maximize someone's utility of something, at no cost, leads to the true but illogical solution of infinite utilization. Even if this is over utilization for the given user.
Don't get me wrong, I love free. I have two sayings for example: "Nothing tastes better than free" and my new life motto (which happens to rhyme), "I don't believe I can say no to free". I love good deals, and I love free deals. I'll admit - even I fall victim to the irrational behavior of free-dom. But there are things we as a society have used too freely, and we have blundered our nest so to speak.
But I try to keep level headed, and keep things in perspective. Society is not 'you all' or 'all of them'. Society is me. I am society. Get it straight, society is composed of individuals, and all thoughts of democracy aside, the individual is what counts. It really does. And listen to Ghandi - be the change you want to see. So everyone - stop complaining about energy prices, and stop using so much! Demand and supply, yada yada yada, it's true but you need to dictate it yourself, every day, and not let others dictate it for you.
So enjoy free offers, free lunches and what have you, but watch what your taking and see what effect your unlimited free consumption of something has - after you've overdone yourself, and after we've all overdone ourselves.
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