[luscious]

because your time is worth less than your money. we are fully descended into the first level of mediocrity.

I think I must be getting time-trolled. People come up with ideas to deliver me 5 minutes of hate on a Monday morning.

Let's put together cheap things to waste massive amounts of time in the pursuit of crap, disposable techno-folk-art. Thank goodness the bombing starts right after football kicks into high gear.

[ctdonath]

"Strange how much human progress & accomplishment comes from contemplation of the irrelevant." - Scott Kim

[luscious]

"Online quotes are vacant appeals to authority. I wish they would stop doing it to me." - Scott Kim

Such a quote is not a talisman. Focusing on the good coming from irrelevant pursuits is confirmation bias and applying such a quote broadly is a slacker's crutch. Let's look at all the semi-self-serious stoners, punks, drunks, libertarians, etc. contemplating the irrelevant... accomplishments? Only if we want to say "do no harm" is better than what they'd do with a bit more ambition.

[hnriot]

you mean like many writers and painters of the twentieth century? Hmmm, yeah, can't think of anything they've ever done. James Joyce, never accomplished anything, I guess Kerouac, Faulkner and Hemingway never did anything. And as for Dostoyevsky, Beethoven and van Gogh, total slackers, not a single accomplishment between them.

[ctdonath]

Well excuse me for reiterating and crediting a concise appealing statement of a notion I share. I quote not as a talisman, but as making a point without reinventing the verbiage for it. I think it's pretty obvious to anyone on this site that the reference to "irrelevant" activities was not celebrating harmful behavior.

You're seriously equating "retro home photo printing" with "stoners, punks & drunks" just because it's "irrelevant"? Really? Is the difference not obvious? Do I really have to spell it out?

BTW: the USA was created by a bunch of libertarians.

[sp332]

I guess I'd better stay at work 15 hours a day, to make sure I'm being productive. Heaven forbid I waste time trying to make my own, low-grade fun at home. I'll just buy high-quality fun by the crate on Amazon.

The end result of the photo is not the point here. No one is saying that the results are good quality! But it's fun to make things like this.

[Robin_Message]

> Thank goodness the bombing starts right after football kicks into high gear.

Is this a film reference? It seemed like a total non-sequiter, except I think I watched the referenced film just yesterday.

[BashiBazouk]

The American football season starts on Thursday but most games will be played on Sunday. The next day Congress takes up the issue of bombing Syria...

[Robin_Message]

Ah, okay, fair enough. It's not really a spoiler, since it is obviously going to happen from the moment the football ground appears, so I'll say the film is the Dark Knight Rises. Bloody good, if disturbing.