Pet Stuff, and other discussions

So lately we've been socializing our dog and my roommates cat. Its been interesting, and hilarious. Our dog is so much heavier than the cat that she keeps barreling into her. The two 'sort of' play, it involves the cat batting the dog in the face a lot, and occasionally biting her while the dog desperately wants to lick her some more.

/end pet stuff

Saw an interesting episode of Law and Order last night. Not SVU, nor CI, the original Law and Order. The episode was actually fairly controversal; dealing with a nurse who would administer a sterilization treatment to troubled women who seemed prone to a life a crime, drugs, and poor child care. What was interesting was the compelling argument that was made for what was essentially eugenics. Most times you hear that term, you instantly warp back to the Nazi Germany days with their plans. The episode was firmly against eugenics, but in discussion McCoy, the lead prosecutor, points out how seductive the idea can be to people.

They also cited historical events in America where the practice of eugenics was considered acceptable. Essentially cases where sterilization was sanctioned and considered an acceptable punishment. The nurse doing this was made to be a very sympathetic character who was just trying to prevent more child abuse and hardship for these girls. She did, however, not tell some of these girls what she was doing at the time. In fact, the case only came to light when a girl died due to complications in that procedure. It was a very intense episode, but it had a great finish with the woman saying that the "the world doesn't need more abused children," to which McCoy replies, "No, the world doesn't need you."

SPOILER: She is found guilty at the end of the episode.

What was also cool about this episode is that it ends with McCoy talking to the Defense attorney, basically asking why he would take this case. By the end of it all, not even the attorney was sure, but he said there were ideals in that case that deserved a decent defense.

What I found interesting was a sort of lesson that came out this case. People always want the easy solution to a problem. Rather than try to teach these women to be better parents, or encourage them to not have anymore children; she decided that it would easier to just sterilize them. I've concluded that I utterly despise this approach to dealing with problems.

Its an attitude I am constantly confronted with, "Lets just get it done, we'll take the time to do it right later." This of course is a lie, they never go back later to set things straight. I had a college professor teach me that you should never try to take the quick and dirty route, you'll just end up dirty. This was stated with respect to statics and dynamics, but I feel that the philosophy translates well. I really hate people sometimes.

Victory

I have finally discovered a means of bypassing my workplaces block on AIM.  So I can actually get on and chat people up while at work.  This is going to make my workday so much more bearable.

Argh!

The service request system at my work place, the thing I have to submit all requests for computer subcontractors to do, kills my inner child.

Goddamn thing needs to have a confirmation for every action you do, and when you need to have multiple computers serviced you have to go through a manual process for each user that takes about 1 minute to do.  I had approximately 100+ users to do in one service request....

I know it saves us money to use this group... but somehow I don't think we came out on top.

Today's Rundown

Work:

Well work was fairly mundane today, I had about a half-day and then went to the Corporate HQ building to do meet and greets for the incoming applicants.  It was interesting to talk to the various people, to be honest I was surprised how many of the interns interviewing today were 7-10+ years older than me.  My class is pretty much entirely people my age.

Nevertheless I have rarely had something worth talking about with people my age, so this was actually pretty good for me.  

Blog:
Trying to find a good format to work with on this blog, and at the same time establish what content I want to discuss.  Guess I'll keep trying til I find something that works.

WoW:

I transferred servers recently, so much depressing breakdowns on Blackhand, and hopped over to Sisters of Elune.  Its an entertaining Roleplay-focused server.  Problem is that raiding on this server is....subpar.  Everybody thinks that PvP gear is just fine for PvE content.... it doesn't work out well let me tell you.

For those who don't play WoW but would like an explanation its pretty simple:

PvP is focused on dealing heavy spike damage, and being able to take a beating.

In PvE you need things like improved hit chance, mana efficiency and constant damage output.

The gear for PvP does not provide any of these abilities.  I enjoy being on the top of the damage charts but when you have 6 people dealing damage, its frustrating to make up 20% of all the damage being done.  Of course you can't tell anyone they aren't geared correctly, perish the thought!

Well, I think thats gonna be it for now, I'll post more as time goes on.  Feel free to put comments if people want me to post about anything in particular.

Life after College

Okay so I've been out of College for about 3.5 months now.

Its been.... hard;  I make enough to support my expenses, but I suddenly have the world resting on my shoulders so to speak and its been alot to deal with.  Car payments, insurance, rent, utilities, and every other thing that comes up has been stressful financially.

I currently live with my fiance and my best friend, with his girlfriend visiting on weekends.  This arrangement has been alright, but I often find myself as the calm center of a tense and volatile situation.  This is another bit of stress that I could do without, but someone has to be calm in the midst of all this.

Afterlife is a fitting term for where I am at right now, I feel like I've sort of hit this zone where I'm sort of free floating.   Working at my company is nice, they take good care of me, but the work is very mundane and for me very unfulfilling.  I intend to remedy this by pursuing my Masters of Computer Engineering and my MBA at their expense.  My goal is eventually to work in an engineering department or as Engineering IT for one the various business units.

My current rotation is alright, though I despise the lengthy meetings/conference calls.  I'm talking 1-4 hour calls at a time, this hurts me so.

IT is good work, its very easy if a bit vague sometimes, but its not fulfilling.  I feel like my intellect is being wasted where its not really being put to work.  

A New Thing

Okay going to try something new here, I find these days that livejournal is no longer the correct venue for what I wish to do, it has its place, but mostly it requires more...meaning?

Regardless this is an opportunity to more frequently and simply post up my thoughts on a topic.

I like to know I'm being heard so please I encourage feedback.