Interesting Links for 18-04-2012
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andrewducker- Scotland's wind expertise is paying off - now selling turbines to the USA.
- Scotland's wind expertise is paying off - now selling turbines to the USA.
- Moore's Law hits cinema cameras - a 2.5K Cinema Camera with 12bit RAW for $3000
- A message to application programmers (these things piss me off too)
- 10 films that were rumoured to be ghost-directed
- Boston, 1967: When marathons were just for men
- At last, a use for homeopathy!
- An explanation of tech terms through the medium of breakfast cereal
- The 501 Developer Manifesto - valuing life over your job
- Wind Turbine Makes 1,000 Liters of Clean Water a Day in the Desert
- The BP oil spill, two years later: Natural recovery far greater than expected
- Twitter Vows To Sue For 'Defensive' Patent Purposes Only. Fantastic. Can we see a trend please?
- Talking to yourself has cognitive benefits
- Half-siblings of autistic children have 50% the chance of having autism as full-siblings
- Neil Gaiman Interviews Stephen King
- What Happened to the Iceberg That Sank the Titanic? (I'm looking forward to The Berg Strikes Back!)
- Now that consumer IP is non-rivalrous and non-excludable, what does that tell us about its price?
- Further evidence found of disturbed immune system in autism
- Operators think Nokia would sell better with Android - Windows smartphones still not selling
A shame, as I'd love there to be more competitors in the phone space, to keep everyone on their toes. I'd actually be tempted by a Windows phone, if they weren't locked to the MS app store.
- We Don't Need Game Publishers, Hardware Makers or Retailers
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Date: 2012-04-18 01:40 pm (UTC)I do NOT envy the "so very wealthy". With nothing you *have* to you better hope to have something you *really want* (see aforemetioned people with jobs they love) to do.... or what's the point to life?
At the moment, due to modest lifestyle, paid off mortgage (1-bed flat) and money in my consulting company pot, I don't *have* to do anything much. At least not for, say, a year. It's actually very hard, because we are none of us used to being self-directed, from early childhood we have been trained to either be someone's minion or to claw our way into the ranks of the minion-herders [this being my own particular terminology - hence the name of my original music project :-) ].
Given the time/space/funds/free energy to do what we *want* how many of us still actually have the drive to actually do all that much? It seems like it, when we are cramming our hobbies into small spaces, but it's very different when those restrictions really are off... or so I am finding.
To have something worth doing and to be doing it well, to know I am trying my hardest and that what I am achieving thereby is enough - that's what I need. Damned hard to find....at least for me.
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Date: 2012-04-18 01:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-18 02:14 pm (UTC)(I'm the kind of weirdo can't truly enjoy something unless I know I am good and getting better/trying my damnedest to get better. Well, maybe dancing... cos I know I'll never be much cop at that :-) )
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Date: 2012-04-18 02:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-18 04:26 pm (UTC)Interesting!
Date: 2012-04-18 02:33 pm (UTC)I'd like to work in the psychiatric outpatients/inpatients here, because they're so woefully understaffed (or at least it looks that way from here). They look like they could do with a bit more of administrative support and to develop a better system of doing things. Although, this is fantasy, so I'm not worrying about the potential Data Protection Act hell, and NHS + bigger systems hell.
After that gets fixed, I'd like to go work as a therapist or dietitian, something involving the mind and body. This I can do in real life, but it requires another undergraduate degree and postgraduate diploma/masters to be able to. Even if I wanted to be a clinical psychologist, I'd have to get on the course (very hard) and complete a 3 to 4 year doctorate which probably would drive me insane. And, I don't really want to work with people at the far end of the psychological disordered/dysfunctional spectrum. I'd much rather work with middle of the road people who are ill, and help them find ways of getting better (without touching them).
I have lots of things I'd like to do, which resemble careers, but I knew from an early age I was going to have to work, so I've spent a lot of my child time focusing on that. I dabble with painting and sewing. Maybe if I was better at them, I'd want to do them more. I also dabble with cooking, but I'm so sick of having to eat 3 times a day and cook/prepare food, even if I was better I'd rather have a special machine to do it for me!
Re: Interesting!
Date: 2012-04-18 04:36 pm (UTC)I could see me being a personal trainer/diet advisor. I actually have a perfectly good enough working knowledge, much more than most people (maybe even than some that do it, no, in fact I *know* better than some that do it!) but I could never keep my mouth shut through the bullshit of getting certificates for it. There is such a lot of crap talked/done and so many people with non-science heads who just take things as gospel/follow the latest trends. Kinda depressing. Getting the work probably means networking or doing dubious deals with gyms and all that cr@p that I can't be arsed with and am no good at.
Rehab phyiso would also appeal - but long training and the NHS need way, way more (and to use them more! Injury rehab is dreadfully limited compared to what pro athletes get... and it's SO necessary, people just dont' realise. Think about all those old people with minor falls and knee ops etc etc...) but can't afford them so there's no obvious 'training ground' where you can get better and more experienced whilst learning from others who are better/more experienced.
Re: Interesting!
Date: 2012-04-18 10:58 pm (UTC)God if I believed that I think I'd just kill myself. Any ability to be pragmatic about my employment prospects depends entirely on my acceptance that, for most people, work and enjoyment are two separate things, and that's okay, it's just how it is.
Re: Interesting!
Date: 2012-04-19 08:59 am (UTC)Re: Interesting!
Date: 2012-04-19 04:17 pm (UTC)I didn't mean 'fun' - I meant 'enjoyment' in the sense that's closer to 'satisfaction'.
And it was all my own personal opinion/experience. *I* personally don't cope well with work when I don't have that.
Urgh, I am in a bloody strange mood at the moment, probaby best not to mind me too much.