The scent of glass
May. 26th, 2006 03:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonI walked to work today for the first time, and it was like an early celebration of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
heisenbug's birthday. Such a nice civilized way to start the day. It's about a 40-minute walk, which isn't much more time than I sometimes take by bus anyway. I lost the map I had in my pocket, and ended up walking a slightly nonoptimal path... but that's all right, I found the car repair district. If I never need a car repaired, now I know where to go.
I also saw one of those red "DRIVING!" stickers that people put on stop signs so that they say "STOP DRIVING!" In smaller letters it said "Start walking, biking, or taking public transit". It made me feel rather virtuous. No fossil fuel use here... move along. :)
Which brings me sort of back around to punk culture, which (though I'm assured it doesn't comprise the entire zine community) I've been reading a LOT about in zines. I guess I never really knew what punk was. I knew about the music, but didn't know that punks are heavily into vegetarianism/veganism, avoidance of fossil fuel use and that sort of thing. There's a bit of a deadbeat, frugal, not wanting to work for the current system vibe in there too, which some of them take further than I would (obviously). I like some of this and don't like some of this. One thing that sort of seems contradictory to me is the way it's considered okay to scrape along by eating at Food not Bombs. At that point aren't you a drag on your own little alternative culture? Eh, whatever. In every culture there are points to play for. Punks aren't playing for money or institutional prestige, very much, but they play for other things. It's all a matter of which games you buy into (edit: which i just realized is probably a poker / gambling reference), and one thing I share with the punks is the idea that you should at least be careful about that.
I went to lunch today with TBC, Dan the Cat and Architect Guy. Originally this was just TBC and me wanting to ask Architect what it's like to be a software architect. It was good to talk to him, because people's choices always are interesting to me, but I don't think my skills lie in those directions (of course, the more I think about really planning a career, the less I usually think I have any skills. Software seems so generic to me, it seems like what you do if you have a logical mind and no real idea what to do with it).
Now that I'm feeling introverted again, I have lots of friends groups wanting to do things -- thanks, Murphy! -- so tonight is for seeing X-men with all ofheisenbug's friends, and later there is a barbeque. Wheeee. I just now got permission to take Tuesday off, so it's a 4-day weekend, and I so need it.
heisenbug's birthday. Such a nice civilized way to start the day. It's about a 40-minute walk, which isn't much more time than I sometimes take by bus anyway. I lost the map I had in my pocket, and ended up walking a slightly nonoptimal path... but that's all right, I found the car repair district. If I never need a car repaired, now I know where to go.I also saw one of those red "DRIVING!" stickers that people put on stop signs so that they say "STOP DRIVING!" In smaller letters it said "Start walking, biking, or taking public transit". It made me feel rather virtuous. No fossil fuel use here... move along. :)
Which brings me sort of back around to punk culture, which (though I'm assured it doesn't comprise the entire zine community) I've been reading a LOT about in zines. I guess I never really knew what punk was. I knew about the music, but didn't know that punks are heavily into vegetarianism/veganism, avoidance of fossil fuel use and that sort of thing. There's a bit of a deadbeat, frugal, not wanting to work for the current system vibe in there too, which some of them take further than I would (obviously). I like some of this and don't like some of this. One thing that sort of seems contradictory to me is the way it's considered okay to scrape along by eating at Food not Bombs. At that point aren't you a drag on your own little alternative culture? Eh, whatever. In every culture there are points to play for. Punks aren't playing for money or institutional prestige, very much, but they play for other things. It's all a matter of which games you buy into (edit: which i just realized is probably a poker / gambling reference), and one thing I share with the punks is the idea that you should at least be careful about that.
I went to lunch today with TBC, Dan the Cat and Architect Guy. Originally this was just TBC and me wanting to ask Architect what it's like to be a software architect. It was good to talk to him, because people's choices always are interesting to me, but I don't think my skills lie in those directions (of course, the more I think about really planning a career, the less I usually think I have any skills. Software seems so generic to me, it seems like what you do if you have a logical mind and no real idea what to do with it).
Now that I'm feeling introverted again, I have lots of friends groups wanting to do things -- thanks, Murphy! -- so tonight is for seeing X-men with all of
heisenbug's friends, and later there is a barbeque. Wheeee. I just now got permission to take Tuesday off, so it's a 4-day weekend, and I so need it.
