tomzyk's Journal: I am a virtual fount of random knowledge

I thought for a moment that I really didn't have to much to do at my job (through no fault of my own); my boss gives me work and I typically finish it a long time before he expects me to. This gives me massive amounts of time to do my own personal research on the internet. [read: allows me to surf for pr0n... jk.] This gives me time to look up [what I call] cool and interesting facts and tid-bits of knowledge.

This random knowledge I have researched in my freetime here began ranging from different programming languages and techniques to different database management systems. After a while, this got boring [Reading up on programming got boring? Get outta here!], and my personal studies took a whole different turn. It went in a direction I would have never guessed; I started reading up on history. Primarily ancient history (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Babylon, Rome, Easter Island, Stonehenge) and religious history (origins of different faiths). I have no idea what started me on this path, but somehow I was led there. (Maybe it was because I started watching too much of the Discovery, History and Science channels. Maybe it was from reading an article on Slashdot. The world will never know.) This then led me into the philosophy arena (and Nitzsche).

To make a long story short (too late), after all of that, I turned back to science and read up on even more randomness: astro-physics, particle-physics, multi-dimentionalism, conspiracy theories, NASA Advanced Concepts, nanotechnology, Einstein, Newton, ant colonies, hive/swarm intelligence, antigravity/floaters (which never really existed and is now known as ion propulsion), cellular automata, string theory (theory of everything), cellular biology, genomics ... I even started to learn to read Egyptian heiroglyphs and read about Operation Clambake (the truth about Scientology).

ALL of it interests me!!!

This just ended up making my life more miserable. Now I'm contenplating whether or not I made the right career choice with just being a software developer. ok, I won't even elevate myself to that level: i'm a friggin web-monkey. I design/develop internet sites and the databases that run behind them. and it BORES me now! I COULD do more, but the job-market sucks so much that there's really no opportunity for me to do anything else at the moment.

I just WISH I could win the damn lottery so I could just quit my job and read up on all of the randomness that interests me. (which is a LOT!)

NTN

[tomzyk]

And yet my NTN scores still aren't all that great. go figure.

Re:NTN

[sigep_ohio]

That is probably from the drinking. I hear that slows the reflexes, but what do I know.

Try practicing from work, I hear they have NTN online.

Ultima Online

[tomzyk]

Oh yeah. And recently I've also been working on setting up my own UO server. I realized a couple weeks ago that I've been spending all of this time reading about the "real world" (and the problems going-on world-wide over the past few years) and not really all that much time on GAMES anymore!!!

My college-life was chock-full-o-games. And pretty much, since I graduated, I've spent most of my time working ... or drinking. :)

So I decided to go back to one of the games I got hooked on during my final year at C

Re:Ultima Online

[sigep_ohio]

I think games.slashdot.org just did a story recently on a new UO coming out. In case you are interested