Thread: Post Pictures of Your Everyday Life

Originally Posted by Wolfwood

Wish I worked opposite my house... no annoying traffic or travel >.<

I work from home. Let me rub it in for you

Originally Posted by Artelis

I work from home. Let me rub it in for you

Yes, everyone says that, and I do enjoy going home on my lunch break, as well taking the occasional lunch break shower, or cat nap, or making lunch without bringing it to work.

But... People at my work can see directly into my apartment at night time.

And taking sick days is awkward, because if I decide to go for a walk to the store (even if it's to get medication) It's weird running into coworkers when I'm all shitty looking.

AND: How the heck am I supposed to get out of there? I don't want to work there forever, but it's not like I can take the day off, throw on some interview clothes and run out the door without SOMEONE seeing me.

It's a pain. Plus, like I said my world is a square block. I miss the transitioning between places. I truly believe the in-between is where a lot of dust settles, and subconscious bits fit into their rightful places....

AND FINALLY: it entices me to J-walk more often. Hence, upping my odds of being hit by a car. (And this has happened btw.. someone reverse parked into me..lol )

-end of rant-

Originally Posted by Artelis

I work from home. Let me rub it in for you

lol you bastard.

Originally Posted by Wolfwood

lol you bastard.

muahahahahaha.

And mishalaneous, I get out a lot. Since I work from home, I never see anyone else I work with (they mostly live in other states anyway), so I randomly just up and go wherever the hell I want in the middle of the day. I can't imagine working in an office right across the street from me : / Need at least a quarter mile buffer.

I wouldn't mind working from home... I hear people are more productive when Working outside of an office environment.

mishalaneous, what's your job? the whole square thing seems weird, never heard of that before

This is my life.



When mommy gets distracted on DV. He finds his own bed.

Spoiler for smacking you in the face repeatedly with my wallet:

The toddler-sized tunnel (aka quick escape route from mommy at the park)



We go to the park almost daily.



occasionally he helps me clean... just hope he does it when he's older.

The biggest "plaza" around here always has something interesting in it's middle ground, these weeks it's a tiny zoo...

I tried to take some pictures, but only the cockatoo and racoons stood still...

"Oh hai! I'm cute, but have a really loud and annoying voice"


Honestly i don't remember what this animal is called o.o


Dam monkeys always kept running around, i couldn't take a better picture lol.


This is supposed to be two lazy racoons... i couldn't take a good picture as they were up that high, all bunched up

Originally Posted by Wolfwood

Dun dun dun.....how do we know we're not someone's pet in a gigantic greenhouse? :O:O

The illusion of freedom is as good as freedom. Until you know. So long as the pet is in a sufficiently large environment, then it's essentially free. And lives.

Does sometimes annoy me a bit that I can't get off this planet though.... but I can still dream.

Well said.

And to add on, there is no saying that freedom will be better. If I strip you off from your internet, computer, handphone and music and throw you back into the wild, do you think you can survive? No there'll be no kitchen too. Just like the cavemen era. Like how we used to live. Now that is true freedom, technology is trapping us.

I grew up with little technology compared to how I live now.

I spent my days outside, playing in the woods, learning about wildlife first hand.

The TV had four channels on it before cable TV emerged. Five if you count the Spanish channel, though reception wasn't always clear.

I spent some of my time recently away from the computer, being sick. It was nice.

I could easily live without any of this technology, though I might miss toilet paper. Still, if I had to survive, I could do it.

There are some benefits to being older than 20 in this era.

Originally Posted by sefalik

mishalaneous, what's your job? the whole square thing seems weird, never heard of that before

I live in a square block. (As in, I do not NEED to leave the block if I don't want to) Whenever I do leave... I do so with the intention of expanding my perimeters:p

I work in a criminal law office. The square thing is a figure of speech.. Work has nothing to do with squares... :p

A square city block, an area defined by four surrounding streets.

Does that help, sefalik?

Originally Posted by melanieb

I grew up with little technology compared to how I live now.

I spent my days outside, playing in the woods, learning about wildlife first hand.

The TV had four channels on it before cable TV emerged. Five if you count the Spanish channel, though reception wasn't always clear.

I spent some of my time recently away from the computer, being sick. It was nice.

I could easily live without any of this technology, though I might miss toilet paper. Still, if I had to survive, I could do it.

There are some benefits to being older than 20 in this era.

One day, I will end up in the woods away from it all. One day...

I'm 24 and have never NOT had a computer. I love technology. I think it's awesome. I grew up learning QBasic, DOS, linux, BBSs (yes, the real ones where you dial up someone else's modem.. none of this internet shenanigans). Basically, it's like learning about nature and such first hand, but my world was all about digital 1s and 0s, and learning how they -truly- work from an engineering standpoint.

I find it to be just as romantic as nature. I would be trapped without it. Trapped in a place where I was never intended to be.

People always say, "could you survive in the wild on your own?" I follow up with, "could you reprogram the anti-replicator gun to bypass their communications encryption before they overwhelm and destroy the entire human race?" Or even better - "Could you use this simple chemistry set to determine which of these pools of water -won't- kill you? They all look, smell, and taste exactly the same, and there are no animals within miles of you to test it first."

The nerd is full of survival skills, just a very different set.

Carrot's life as a cavemen.

Eat. Sleep. Play with rocks. Shit. Hunting. Dance. Random singing. Sightseeing everyday. Killing insects. Find a mate.

Yup, that's about it. I don't think I need anything more than that to survive. But technology's already here, what's done been done. So I guess we all just live with it. I don't deny the improvements and knowledge that advancement has brought us. But if I were to die in cavemen era because of my ignorance, that would be my fate, or how the cavemen would have think so too.

Originally Posted by Artelis

I'm 24 and have never NOT had a computer. I love technology. I think it's awesome. I grew up learning QBasic, DOS, linux, BBSs (yes, the real ones where you dial up someone else's modem.. none of this internet shenanigans).

That's funny right there.

Originally Posted by Artelis

People always say, "could you survive in the wild on your own?" I follow up with, "could you reprogram the anti-replicator gun to bypass their communications encryption before they overwhelm and destroy the entire human race?" Or even better - "Could you use this simple chemistry set to determine which of these pools of water -won't- kill you? They all look, smell, and taste exactly the same, and there are no animals within miles of you to test it first."
The nerd is full of survival skills, just a very different set.

I doubt the usefulness of this survival skill in the present day world, and considering where the information was learned I doubt it would apply to any future scenario.


Come out with me into the real world sometime. I'll teach you to build a shelter and shop with cash.

Originally Posted by melanieb

Come out with me into the real world sometime. I'll teach you to build a shelter and shop with cash.

Does that come with a mortgage?

No, I don't have one of those. My house is paid for.

Originally Posted by melanieb

That's funny right there.

I doubt the usefulness of this survival skill in the present day world, and considering where the information was learned I doubt it would apply to any future scenario.

Come out with me into the real world sometime. I'll teach you to build a shelter and shop with cash.

Happy to amuse. I don't get why this is so funny though.

I was making a stargate reference for funsies.

Trust me, I have plenty of outdoor survival skills. I'm was really talkin up my lack of them before, but I pretty much spent every summer of my upbringing through high school hiking, canoeing, and camping backpack style. Built a few shelters, but can't say I ever had to forage for food in any way. I've also tent camped in the dead of winter in northern minnesota about ten times. Don't know too many people that have done that. Somewhere around my freshman year in college I finally admitted to myself that I really disliked all of that and loved the hell out of my creature comforts.

I was simply trying to argue the point that in different ecosystems, different skill sets are considered necessary for survival. And why do people get off on calling it the "real" world. It's just as real as the world sitting in front of me on my computer. It's just different. So what if I couldn't survive if someone dropped me off in the middle of the desert. I don't expect that to happen in my lifetime barring any awful circumstances. But let's face it, if someone wants to kill you, they'll kill you. If you're an expert desert survivalist, they may decide to just... put a bullet in your head instead. People consider the most trivial things to be survival skills. Anyone who makes it to the age of 50 employed perfectly acceptable survival skills throughout their life. In some cases you could say the ability to mooch is a survival skill (there are many organisms in nature that do this...), the ability to get a job in a down market is a survival skill, the ability to find a partner that offsets you nicely is a survival skill, the ability to communicate is a survival skill, the ability to -survive no matter what- is a survival skill. Basically what I'm trying to say is that just because you can build a shelter in the woods doesn't mean you have better survival skills than a shut in computer nerd - especially in metropolitan united states in modern time.

I'd consider the sly bastard than can swindle his way to the top of the economy to have the best survival skills in that sense. Everyone is very well in tune with their ecosystem and practice survival accordingly.

I have no survival skills, 'cept instinct, but I'll still end up in the woods one day.

All of the good places are already taken. Do you think if you -really- wanted to remove yourself from society you could build a house in the woods somewhere where no one would find you for ... let's say 20 years. You'd have to get pretty damn remote to not have someone stumble upon your whereabouts through happenstance. There are enough people traveling away from the beaten path to find you by accident. When there are 7 billion people on the planet, it's hard to avoid them all.

....seriously, if only there was a good alternative.

Originally Posted by Artelis

All of the good places are already taken. Do you think if you -really- wanted to remove yourself from society you could build a house in the woods somewhere where no one would find you for ... let's say 20 years. You'd have to get pretty damn remote to not have someone stumble upon your whereabouts through happenstance. There are enough people traveling away from the beaten path to find you by accident. When there are 7 billion people on the planet, it's hard to avoid them all.

I forgot to add a skill: I know how to kill lonely wanderers.

Naa, but truly, there are plenty of islands around the UK that have extremely tiny populations.

Islands are great but a really remote place in Alaska or Canada might also be good.

Same with the forests in Russia.

The real trick is hiding your habitation from the air, being close enough to fresh water for it to be practical, and far enough from other people to reduce chances of random encounters.

I really need to post some of my recent pictures. Maybe tomorrow.