Don't interrupt me when I am at the machine

The man behind explodingdog is a genius. He really knows how to rock a camel down, in the words of Wesley Willis (another genius). This picture, Don't interrupt me when i am at the machine! sums up the technological society (which is exemplified by America and Japan, with Europe and parts of other countries hot on our heels) quite well, if you ask me. We can't be bothered to do anything that isn't efficient, particularly if we are engaged in the pursuit of the efficient at the time. "I spend quality time with my family, not quantity time." "I send my kids to daycare because I don't have time to look after them all day." "I go to school to develop my skill set." And so forth and so on. This will become more organized in the future (that is, I'll put something down that's more coherent and less rambling).

Good news: the Atlanta Braves were eliminated from the baseball playoffs. This is good news because I have a tendency to develop an intense dislike (just shy of hatred) for the major sports of any town I live in (a brief list: I dislike: the Atlanta Falcons, the Atlanta Braves, the Carolina Panthers, the ex-Charlotte Hornets, the Tennessee Vols and the Chattanooga Mocs; I can also feel an instense dislike for the Georgia Bulldogs developing, since I will be moving there sometime soon.) I wonder if this is somehow connected to the way that I like teams from places that I barely lived or am barely connected to (or even not at all): see Philadelphia Eagles and all the various soccer clubs I follow. But the soccer club-following from overseas thing is just wierd so perhaps that is unconnected. I suppose most of my dislike is rooted in the way that hometown sports teams tend to be covered: all that hubris and "we're going to really win it this year" analysis just doesn't cut it when you want the unending criticism that Philly fans subject their teams to.