Imponderables: Seasonal Visitors

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ZEEK

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 3:41 PM

Well it's probably all in like a 5 mile radius. So, not too crazy for the power outage to hit all of them. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing that I can see my office building from my apartment.

FREELANCERTEX

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 3:47 PM

I wondered if it might be a 'city-grid' thing, but I don't know much about how city electricity workings are structured :P, or how close your place of work and the hospital were to your place. (I didn't want to do that horrible thing and 'assume'. --I'm used to living in a town. power outages are very localized)

Re: view of work from home: Well, if you don't like your job, I can see it being bothersome, being able to see your work from your home. If you like your job, then the opposite.
Or, from a transportation/traffic perspective, at least you're somewhat close :) Long commutes can be annoying, and tiresome.

ZEEK

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 4:02 PM

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Originally posted by freelancertex:
Re: view of work from home: Well, if you don't like your job, I can see it being bothersome, being able to see your work from your home. If you like your job, then the opposite.
Or, from a transportation/traffic perspective, at least you're somewhat close :) Long commutes can be annoying, and tiresome.

I don't like work cause it's work. I'm like Peter from office space. If I could, I'd do nothing.

FREELANCERTEX

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 4:09 PM

lol, can't really disagree on that sentiment ;)

Ponder on words: I'm reading Jane Eyre for Lit., and this question always seems to come up when I read certain books. How do words evolve from one form to another? I mean, how does "for ever" turn into "forever"; or "to-night" into "tonight"; "whatever" into "whatsoever" (if I'm right in the latter being the actual progression of the word) and so on? I would expect common spoken language would have to play a part (maybe, I could be wrong), but usually conversational English doesn't heavily affect the way things are established as far as I can tell (otherwise run-ons and fragments would be grammatically correct in written English, least that's my view). At what point does a colloquial change become a 'correct' word, since not all coined words end up in the dictionary? Why were certain words (like the ones above) separate to begin with if people speak and perceive them as a single word?
Thoughts? References? Links? whatever?

RUGBUG

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 4:11 PM

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Originally posted by Zeek:
Heart is "beautiful" apparently.

Yeah for beautiful hearts.

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Got to work. Servers down from power outage. Gonna be a long day.

I vote you go home. Whenever we have sustained power outtages here...we get to go home.

The only problem with visible workplace is that you can get caught easier when playing hookie. :D I live about two miles from work ON the street A LOT of people travel to get to work. I used to park in the driveway. This all adds up to calling in sick only when you're really sick and not because you want to sleep in and then go play with the horses. :D

I now park in the garage.

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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw

MSA

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 4:59 PM

LOL Rugbug...sleep and go play with the horses ( which is usually my mom's excuse for playing hookey from work too)

I work from home some days mainly because my commute is over 120 miles a day. Which is a pain.

I love Jane Eyre:)Such an archetypal set of characters and yet nuance and detail really makes them absolute. One of the better gothic fiction pieces:)( Though I do love the tongue in cheek sassiness of Northanger Abbey)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

SOLARFLARE

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 5:10 PM

120 mile commutes! That is just awful. Sorry you have so far to go.

I loved Jane Eyre too. Great book. Haven't opened it for years. I'll have to get it back out.

Regarding words: Language evolves. When enough people start using a word (or set of words) a certain way, it becomes accepted. Of course, it only becomes accepted if the empowered socio-economic class is included in the group of people using the word. Otherwise, it's called "slang."

ZEEK

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 5:51 PM

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Originally posted by solarflare:
Regarding words: Language evolves. When enough people start using a word (or set of words) a certain way, it becomes accepted. Of course, it only becomes accepted if the empowered socio-economic class is included in the group of people using the word. Otherwise, it's called "slang."

As a kid I always imagined there was some king sitting on a throne somewhere who came up with words and spelling at a whim. Mainly because they aren't logical. So, I just figured it had to be some big wig playing a big practical joke on the rest of us. Darn big wigs!

GORRAMGROUPIE

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 7:38 PM

I wish power would go out here, I need more of a nap, too many long days and short nights. Yeah, so I work from home, and if I have no power, so no work, but no fault. I'm too honest to call in and lie about it though....

'Who are you and how did you get in here?' 'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.'
Police Squad

FREELANCERTEX

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 7:54 PM

I would never be able to work from home. I find that when surrounded by several more appealing venues, I get easily distracted from what I'm *supposed* to be doing :P

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Originally posted by MsA: I love Jane Eyre:)Such an archetypal set of characters and yet nuance and detail really makes them absolute. One of the better gothic fiction pieces:)( Though I do love the tongue in cheek sassiness of Northanger Abbey)

It's proving to be one of the more enjoyable books I've been assigned this semester. It's weird, I can't stand any of the books in my Modern Novel class (early 20th century), but I tend to gravitate towards 18/19th century writing. It's either 1600's-1900, or 1960/70-present, almost everything between 1900 and 1960/70ish (I'll have to recheck the dates on some of my books to be sure) I just can't stand.

I'll have to take a look at Northanger Abbey

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