{"id":1513,"date":"2007-04-19T23:41:16","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T06:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/lazy-distracted-or-otherwise-occupied\/"},"modified":"2007-04-19T23:41:16","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T06:41:16","slug":"lazy-distracted-or-otherwise-occupied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/lazy-distracted-or-otherwise-occupied\/","title":{"rendered":"Lazy, distracted or otherwise occupied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just haven&#8217;t felt so much like writing in the last few days.  Mostly, it&#8217;s still shaking off a cold, I suspect, and a headache.  And, maybe it&#8217;s the one degree of separation from a big-time act of crazy horror.<\/p>\n<p>Then, there&#8217;s the nattering noise behind me in my office, which I suspect is also the source of the current rhinovirus.  I tune in and out of the noise in my actually large, real wood, state of the art, ergonomic,  comfy-like, but cube-nonetheless cube.  With a cold and a headache I tend to get caught in the noise.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I wish I could alter about the current workaday world would be the cube-farm.  Some days, usually when the convo turns to banal complaints and misinformation about nutrition given the abundance of snack food in the office, I dream and yearn for a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cone_of_Silence\">cone of silence.<br \/>\n<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/1\/14\/Coneofsilence.jpg\" alt=\"conesilence\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the news that used to be new, until bigger news broke, I still have one lingering question.  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/1564448.stm\">How the hell does this man have a girlfriend,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A55423-2005Mar21.html\">let alone one causing a scandal?<\/a><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/42797000\/jpg\/_42797341_wolf203afp.jpg?w=625\" alt=\"wolfowitz\" \/>  They say power is attractive to your Washington, DC chicks, but um, for me, not with a borrowed twat, as it were.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely, every shot of the gal pal I could find on the web is the same profile. <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.arabnews.com\/2005\/03\/shaha23_.jpg?w=625\" alt=\"riza\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to imagine the right half of her face is kind of like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Two-Face\">Two-Face in Batman.<\/a>  Otherwise, she could do better than this guy.<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/wolfowitznose.jpg\" title='wolfnose'><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/wolfowitznose.jpg?w=625\" alt='wolfnose' \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/wolfowitzcomb.JPG\" title='wolfcomb'><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/wolfowitzcomb.JPG?w=625\" alt='wolfcomb' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m mildly obsessed with the reverb coming from the national news about the Virgina Tech killer.  There&#8217;s the news story, then the news story about the press coverage.  Then there&#8217;s the analysis of the coverage and whether the coverage is covering the right or wrong things.  Of course, then, there&#8217;s the speculation that media influenced the killer and whether media will now glorify his infamy.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the deal.  I believe one thing to be true.  There are crazy, fucking animals amongst us homo sapiens.  It&#8217;s random, it&#8217;s sick, it&#8217;s unpredictable and sadly, every present.  Life is random.  Who&#8217;s batshit crazy AND homicidal isn&#8217;t known until the batshit crazy fucker kills someone.  It just sucks.<\/p>\n<p>And, for fuck&#8217;s sake, I wish the web and cable news commentary on the killer&#8217;s crappy writing would just stop.  Writing crazy shit doesn&#8217;t equate with homicidal horror.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/sateenduraluxe.livejournal.com\/28161.html\">a test over here, if you need some proof.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/lazy-distracted-or-otherwise-occupied\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just haven&#8217;t felt so much like writing in the last few days. Mostly, it&#8217;s still shaking off a cold, I suspect, and a headache. And, maybe it&#8217;s the one degree of separation from a big-time act of crazy horror. 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