What an interesting couple of months. My interenship has turned into a job, I am living in my favorite place in the world, indeed a scant walk to my job, which I love and yet there is something missing. I'm not entirely sure what yet, albeit I am a bit lonely as I know very few people here, but work gives me little time currently so that isn't as much of an issue. I've never really felt like I *needed* people, close friends excluded.
Perhaps it is still a feeling of not being settled yet. Or the sudden uprooting of my life as I knew it. This is not to say that I am not happy... I think it is more that I am not content, which seems like an implausability. Shouldn't happiness and contentness go hand in hand? Who can say,,,
On a side note, I AM happy about my huge new desk at work. My forearms, however, are not. I built three desks today and moved many heavy things. My arms are rightfully aggriviated with me. Perhaps ibuprofin and Scotch will help matters...
I have almost finished Xenocide and it is an interesting book. I think of it as a series of moral vinettes each presenting to its subsequent characters a moral dilemma and exploring the nature of the possible sociopolitical ramifications. I think that Jane is the most intriguing character in the book. She posseses a certain level of 'artificial' sentience not often seen in AI characters. She almost seems more 'human,' as much as I hate the term, than many of the other characters in the novel. Perhaps her motivations are just so removed from the normal killbot type of computer sentience that she appears so.
Perhaps it is still a feeling of not being settled yet. Or the sudden uprooting of my life as I knew it. This is not to say that I am not happy... I think it is more that I am not content, which seems like an implausability. Shouldn't happiness and contentness go hand in hand? Who can say,,,
On a side note, I AM happy about my huge new desk at work. My forearms, however, are not. I built three desks today and moved many heavy things. My arms are rightfully aggriviated with me. Perhaps ibuprofin and Scotch will help matters...
I have almost finished Xenocide and it is an interesting book. I think of it as a series of moral vinettes each presenting to its subsequent characters a moral dilemma and exploring the nature of the possible sociopolitical ramifications. I think that Jane is the most intriguing character in the book. She posseses a certain level of 'artificial' sentience not often seen in AI characters. She almost seems more 'human,' as much as I hate the term, than many of the other characters in the novel. Perhaps her motivations are just so removed from the normal killbot type of computer sentience that she appears so.
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