An open and frank declaration
Superficial
useless
0Are some people useless or skilled in traits that are less valued by society?
I don’t think it is fair to say that everyone’s total skill is equal in sum, because if i improve in my cross country skiing, my rifle shooting skill, doesnt deplete. I suppose some skills are developed and maintained with time and time is a universal resource. Nobody has more time than another. even if you keep travelling west, and you keep gaining an hour, that international date line will really screw you over.
If you develop skill at a faster rate, then you are a blessed person, and it might be the best use of your time to continue.
If you do not have a fast rate, then doubling efforts might be necessary, with both perserverance and humility needed in order to keep pace.
So to the people who many might seem worthless, do they lack perserverence + humility to apply themself in areas they are slow to learn? Or are they just so incredibly disadvantaged that they will never catch up? I guess a generalization I might make from my observational experience is that lack of skill is most often misguided direction or a lack of willpower.
shapes and life
0In an aesthetic world, some shapes are more appealing than others. Symmetry and smoothness I think provides some form of logic and comfort. Things that appear oblong or assymetrical or jagged are often percieved as wrong or misshapen, even if there is no shape that something needs to be. There is no correct shape of a fruit yet we might view an awkwardly shaped pear as wrong or bad.
The composition of a life may be shaped in a variety of ways. However I think most people find some comfort in fitting in a certain pattern with a spouse and a house, or some educational pursuit and travel. It seems like there is a lack of symmetry if someone has a spouse and education, or travels and has young children. They can seem awkward because of their rarity, but also because of the assumed imbalance that a life with unconventional characteristics would have. Someone may be a wizard with time, or perhaps more likely sadly neglecting one of these major areas.
Cultural output
0I appreciate changing culture around me. We come across people from cultures that we are not in and it is foreign to us. For this reason I like making foreign cultures less foreign. To watch, or be immersed in, something new is key to understanding the value systems and qualities that make a culture.
Who is revered in this culture, and why are they there?
What qualities are ostracized and what happens to those who don’t comply?
How long do people stay at the top, and what happens after time?
What are the products of this culture to the rest of the world?
To know, requires a lot of travel and talking with locals. I would like to know more, and meet more people.
Do I know what my own culture’s output is? Does Canada give the world… apologizing, syrup and multicultural harmony? Hmm.
Primary pursuit
0People I know pursue good things, but things in different direction.
To pursue love, family:
This creates an importance on searching, dating, accommodating the relationship, investing in it, making commitments, spending time and money, buying a house to settle in, paying big bills, juggling work and home.
To pursue work, career, knowledge, skills:
This starts with focus and dedication, long hours studying, diligent work, time-management, limiting fun and emotions, moving city to city, X Y Z
To pursue virtue, charity, ministry:
This starts with some soul searching and relational connections. Endurance through difficult preparations, patience with difficult people, strength to push through challenging times and doubts. Emotional stability and self-monitoring.
Back to blog. Five updates
0I dont think I’ve gone this long without blogging. I blame nothing happening that is longer than 140 characters, aka microblogging (twitter) is often sufficent, so why do I need to post here? when I can post there http://twitter.com/threeup
I like words and full expression. It is hard to pick up tone, or learn why someone thinks something. Microblogs are often just a fact, not an opinion. The style in which something is expressed I believe is part of the communication package.
Ok, now for some random anecdotes. (more…)
pointless ambitions
02 years ago
by Sheridan
in Superficial
Have you heard the people who visit all the NFL stadiums, or collect a complete set of spoons?
How about the ones who absolutely must see a certain famous person before they die. Perhaps visit some holy land, either cultural or religious, for life ‘fulfillment’
People also pursue that Bachelors in Uselessness. Oh, I didn’t say that.
Actually perhaps pursuing something, anything, is better than no ambition at all. It at least gets you in motion and other things along the way might give you actual benefit.
Here’s my list, none of which I actually intend on seeing through.
#1 In 7 years, I want to be living, or visiting Louisville Kentucky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_eclipse_global_visibility_2017Aug21T.png
#2 I want to be a random background person in a Saturday Night Live skit trying to look cool, like a waiter.
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/hamm-and-buble/1198004/
(bonus SNL skit: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/closet-organizer/1197957/ )
#3 I would like something of mine in a museum anywhere. Hopefully because it is good and not because I vandalized or catastrophically failed.
http://www.missioninnmuseum.com/collect_aviation_lvl3/av00001_lvl3.htm
#4 Become the top search result for ’3up’ 9th on google and 3rd on bing!
http://www.bing.com/search?q=3up
That’s all for now.
Rambam
0So, time for another rapid fire shot. I realize… twitter is basically this: a micro blog with a few thoughts here and there. However the twitterverse seems like this overcrowded dollar store. Even though I do use it @threeup I’m not much of a fan. And as you will soon find out, I am feeling verbose about these somewhat boring topics; well beyond 140 characters. (But twitter’s appeal is in brevity which is often best)
Ting Tings live
downloadin
Weather
More Korean TV
Itunes
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Unicode and the world unknown
0Linguistics is weird, not because I want to know how to form my mouth to make sounds, but because they use crazy names and symbols for things.
A close-mid back unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, ɤ, called “ram’s horns” I often wonder who is in charge of unicode, the “alphabet” of crazy letters and characters for many languages and weird uses including making my name look cool: ᴈ ʓ ʒ ɝ ᶔ ₃ ᶚᵘᵖ
Then I learned about the Onge language spoke on the islands of Little Andaman Island. It is an endangered language. And I realize I have no idea where Little Andaman Island or anything Andamanian, so I looked it up and found out it is separated from Rutland Island in Great Andaman by the Duncan Passage. It is home to an underlying rainforest and rare species of marine turtles. India tried to colonize it in the 60s, but gave up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Andaman_Island
Guess what, I still have no idea where it is.
Unicode, and the world, are full of mysteries and it makes me realize how little I know.
This is where I am.
0I feel that I am half as weird as an extremely weird person. Maybe two-thirds.
I have a recipe for a delicious desert. It takes one pineapple. Cut it. Serve chilled.
I most certainly feel more alive when the sun is down. Why? Insert cheesy vampire reference here.
I see ties in my closet and then after a while I break down and wear one. Keep immorality out of my closet.
I love giant abrupt changes from light things to heavy ones, or vice versa.
I get itchy from my blanket and talk to my future wife before I sleep.
I feel like I seek true hearts, but most people inside are about diamonds spades or clubs. Uhh.. Spades are up arrows, so, worldly success. Clubs are luck, or … violence. Phew, analogy saved.
I still don’t get bored unless I wait for things. The Sheridan brain is sometimes a locomotion machine and sometimes a cyclical perpetual motion machine. Lately more of the latter.
I like words, but realize this is a knowledge barrier thrust upon people I communicate with.
I am twenty five, but don’t want this to be twenty six. Four months to evolve. Luckily, it would be behavioral not biological evolution.
I am Sheridan, this is where I am.
Say what now?
0I’m not really in a place to be lengthy in writing.
Hmm. Perhaps I’ve decided I’ve said everything I can about life, or opinions except for little things that are of small consequences. I could word things elegantly as an art form, but there is little to inspire.
Christmas music comes around once a year. Once a year I need that medicine. Perhaps twice.
Having things in order, automated, easy, is the goal of many. But with that goal reached, and free time increased, then you have nowhere to hide from yourself.
I like pineapples, the word and the fruit, but I ate 10% of it and let the rest grow mold. I’m not sure why I don’t open my fridge and go ‘hmm…. pineapple!’. When I do go ‘hmm…’ , it is usually for a sobe pina colada, which, oddly enough has some pineapple flavor.
I jumped on board some jpop(link) /kpop(link)a few months ago and I’ve really not stopped. Embedded is some favorite korean content. Despite being miss certified superfine, Dambi’s appearance only the second reason I like this video. The first: it is quite pleasant and soothing. The third: it’s sad/romantic. The second: she’s very pretty. Oh, ya, I said that.
Son Dambi’s Invisible Person … good title.
