The historian Jill Kerr Conway spoke at my old college (way back when) and introduced the term "value neutral."
For example: a hammer. It's predominately used as a tool, but you could also bean someone on the head with one. A hammer has many purposes so it's "value neutral."
After Conway's talk, I had a heated discussion with a friend on whether a gun was "value neutral." He said yes; I said no. Sure you could hammer a nail with a gun, but a gun's sole purpose is to kill. Kill. Kill. Kill.
I am now wondering, after weeks of searching for a job and reading the news at the same time, whether computers are "value neutral."
Why do I ask this question?
Bc all I'm reading so far is garbage, mayhem, killing, and absurdity. Why is it that a company wants you to know at least 15 different software programs and then offers to pay you $10 and hour. And why is Condi playing piano in Malaysia when she should be STOPPING PEOPLE FROM KILLING EACH OTHER.
I love my computer; I really do. I also want to throw it out the window. But it isn't my computer's fault the worlds going to hell and their ain't a lot of jobs out there.
I'm going for a bike ride.
I got my bike from Cambridge MA to Brooklyn NY.
Now I'm exhausted.
Today I had an old client email me
(from circa almost 2 years ago)
asking me to do some work for her
so I had to dig up her file...which was fine,
especially since I found an old poem
I had forgotten...course this means
more work (provided I take it on)
and the next vacation
I take will be on 2009...
Vacation? What's that?
One I figure that out, I'm off to France.
Or somewhere...
Leads me out of the house and in ONatural's coffeeshop in Somerville...despite the crying children, it's not so bad...I'm sitting on the big comfy couch...
Yes, I am looking for a job. I wouldn't be sitting here if I weren't...
I deleted all my entries.
I am starting anew...
tho I can't seem to get rid of the flowers...