Friday, June 10, 2005

humour and correctness

I just spent some time cruising around ESRs site. I always find it interesting to read older hackers thoughts and opinions, they seem somewhat more clear then so many activists these days. One page that caught my eye in particular and completely cracked me up was this. Truely empassioned and, imo, absolutely hysterical.
On a different note I find it quite intimidating reading through sites like ESRs and Stallmans if for no other reason then the amount of things that they have done and continue to do. Their productivity seems so incredibly high that I really don't know where they get the time to do it all. Then I started thinking perhaps the reality is with a lot of these people is that they don't have jobs like I define them. For me my job, by that I mean the job I do to make money as opposed to anything else, takes up an unavoidable 10 hours a day (9 hour working day + travel time which if I was truthful would be closer to 1.75 hours). Then I have to eat on top of that and I end up with about ~5-8 hours to do things depending on how demanding I want to be of my body. Now I realise that the majority of people have similar time demands, but I think, and I could well be wrong, people like ESR and other people don't actually spend as much of their time working for cash as the rest of us. At least thats what I want to believe, otherwise wtf have I been doing with my time ? oh and don't say the obvious like wasting time reading weird geek sites ;)

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