Fire drill

[ljplicease]

Highlight of the day: Fire drill. Seriously it was a nice distraction, and walking up 10 flights of stairs to get back to the office was good exercise. Work isn't too bad^[1]. My TODO list has been getting really long, because I can't Internet that much from work^[2]. Two things I have been meaning to get to:

• download new version of Google Earth
• mention Anecdote Goblins in my journal.

I was listening to the Hitchhiker's Guide to something somewhere, when it mentioned Anecdote Goblins in passing. Briefly, Anecdote Goblins are that which convert a story that you think is very interesting and insightful into something like "I went on a train once. It had blue seats." When I saw this term defined (see the link), I was like omg, that is totally like every entry in my journal! Happily, everyone is too polite to tell me so. Anyway, now I can cross those two things off of my TODO list. Also: I ride a train everyday. Sometimes they have blue seats.

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[1] I'm still ready to quit though.

[2] Seriously, I miss IM, which I took for granted at The Company.

Comments

[hammer-reality.livejournal.com]

The Google Earth concept seems kind of scary.

[plicease]

Really? Why?

I find a number of their other enterprises a lot scarier, like gmail and Google Desktop for the huge amount of personal data they could potentially mine for marketing (or possibly because a government asked them to) and like how they (along with yahoo) helped the Chinese government put political dissidents in prison. Google Earth seems more like a mostly harmless fancy map in comparison.