I saw a man pushing a baby stroller with a toddler down the road today with his left hand and carrying a running weed trimmer in his right hand. He was either nuts or some sort of Nanny / Landscaper hybrid. Crazy or not, I drove away blissfully indifferent of the Cabbage Patch Kidnapper.
I tend to embrace my apathy. It’s especially fun to invoke during conversations. I’ve noticed that people automatically assume that you are of a differing opinion when clamming up; political and religious conversations in particular. For instance some liberal co-workers at my previous job thought I was a staunch conservative; all from adopting an apathetic stance. Truthfully I’m probably somewhere in the middle, but I don’t see the point in talking about something that I’d have to pretend I had the ability to change.
That’s the real beauty of apathy. I don’t have to lie to myself about how much I should care about matters of supposed importance. I get to focus on stuff that’s important to my little egocentric mind instead; work and play perhaps. Everything else gets deleted from my brain after conversations end. But on to more social topics…
I added a LinkedIn profile recently for networking purposes. Seeing how my previous jobs weren’t exactly tech-related, I couldn’t beef up my contact list. I strapped on my creativity hat and sent a mass-mailing to VGT contacts about adding me. It will help me keep track of their job-hopping movements anyway. I got about 60% to add me. Not too shabby!
I also got in on the Ping.fm beta finally. For those that don’t know, Ping.fm allows you to send the same status up to mutliple accounts. For instance, I have it setup to send my status update to Twitter, Myspace, Facebook and LinkedIn. It works with tons of other services as well (FriendFeed, Xanga, Livejournal, Blogger, WordPress, Pownce, etc…). I have a beta code if anyone wants to sign up.
