Travel: totally worthless?

[recursivelyenumerable]

So this kinda sucks.  Basically all the activities I ever engage in anywhere fit into a handful of categories:

1) working at soul-destroying jobs,
2) completely futile attempts to find love/get laid/make a connection/whatever,
3) fantasizing about grandiose music/programming/social engineering projects and occasionally making insignificant filling-a-lake-with-an-eyedropper progress toward implementing those projects,
4) making insignificant progress toward finishing the 3423652356235 pages of math and computer science textbooks and papers I buy/download every month,
5) dicking around on the internet.

This basically means that travel has no utility whatever.  (2) would be even more pointless and pathetic than usual, (3) and (4) don't benefit from being another place, which means I'll probably just end up doing (5).  I even kinda miss (1), it's horrible but at least passes the time.

[TVC15]

Where are videogamez in that list?

[Positive Touch]

find risky places to masturbate in

[The Fake Shemp]

Videogames is like nature's sports.

[recursivelyenumerable]

I don't actually play games much anymore.  The game-related activities I do indulge in mostly fit under (5) and (3)

[TVC15]

But you have like an encyclopedic degree of knowledge on Square's staffing.  That's just not healthy.

[recursivelyenumerable]

I do still spend hours doing searches for interviews/staff info, but it's just an uncontrollable compulsive activity.  The staffing knowledge has become an independent end in itself, it's not really tied to an interest in the games too much anymore.   It's not really tied to anything at all.  I have bought a handful of DS games in the past year, but my playtime averages maybe 5-10 hours a month.

[demi]

I wish I could travel. Which evilbore user should I travel to first?

[The Fake Shemp]

Me, obviously.  The rest are anti-social and I can get you drunk.  Which I heard would be funny.

[demi]

I'll do it. When's good.

[The Fake Shemp]

Probably after the holidays.  I have inventory prep and inventory this month, and next few are blackout months for me because of the nature of retail.  After that - I'm free!

[Madrun Badrun]

Wilco's just going to try and indoctrinate you into the gamsestop cult.   I bet he just can't wait to make you a "key holder". 

[The Fake Shemp]

Dude, you can't even spell GameStop.  You are basically like this forum's Charlie.  Do you even own a toothbrush, Father_Mike?

[recursivelyenumerable]

hmm, there is some kind of film festival going on here that coincides with ICFP/my stay.

[Van Cruncheon]

i saw a mountie beat a meth-addled whore's ass at a victoria shopping mall, travel officially rocks

[Van Cruncheon]

on the other hand, hotel bars/restaurants are officially the biggest ripoffs ever, just in case  anyone needed to be reminded

smh @ 15 canuck bux for a shot of JOSE FUCKING CUERVO

[recursivelyenumerable]

which mall?  do you know if this is a regularly scheduled event?

[Madrun Badrun]

I pressed the "s" while hitting the e key!  Leave my toothbrush out of this. 

[Van Cruncheon]

it had a big store called "the bay" in it, it was on a big drag close to the water

[Rman]

on the other hand, hotel bars/restaurants are officially the biggest ripoffs ever, just in case  anyone needed to be reminded

smh @ 15 canuck bux for a shot of JOSE FUCKING CUERVO

That's crazy.

[Van Cruncheon]

i could buy a two week old third-party wii game for that price

now that i think about it, the jose is probably a better deal

[recursivelyenumerable]

all the restaurants here I've tried are pretty expensive, maybe a 50-75% premium over Portland prices.  I guess that's typical of touristy cities.

[Boogie]

i saw a mountie beat a meth-addled whore's ass at a victoria shopping mall, travel officially rocks

Man, I miss out on all the fun stuff!  

[Van Cruncheon]

i thought of you, boogie, when the mountie pushed her onto the floor and cuffed her spazzy ass

i even thought "fuck, boogie has the coolest fucking job EVER" and i felt envy

[Madrun Badrun]

Were the meth addict and the mounty in The Bay? 

[recursivelyenumerable]

getting through customs was a huge ordeal.  I'm too lazy to recount it again so I will copy & paste from an email to my mom:

The problem, in its mundane manifestation, was that you have to provide "proof of funds", i.e. show that you have enough money to survive your stay without resorting to drug running and prostitution.  I had seen this requirement mentioned somewhere but had forgotten about it, and because I'd asked at Bank of Am. about the possibility of getting funds from my check card, and they'd told me they had sister banks in Canada at which I could make withdrawals in Canadian currency without even paying any extra fees etc., I wasn't carrying much cash at all ($63).  They were highly skeptical about this --- the Canadian debit card system was completely different, there are no BOA in Canada, did I perhaps have it confused with Victoria, Texas?, etc., etc.  (The BOA teller's info turned out to be totally correct.)   Finally they said they really shouldn't be letting me in at all, but they would on the condition that I relinquish the "visitor document" they were giving me upon exiting Canada and no later than the 29th, and if I didn't relinquish the document there would be a warrant put out for my arrest (seriously!)  The real problem was the metaphysical subtext of their interrogations; God knows I don't want to deal with them any more than is necessary.

so if I lose or forget the document, which knowing me is very possible, I could be in that meth addict's position  

[Madrun Badrun]

You must have a great relationship with your mom.  I'd feel very uncomfortable if I ever had to talk about metaphysical subtext with mine. 

[recursivelyenumerable]

the metaphysical bit is an inside joke.  probably shouldn't have included it in the copypasta.

[Great Rumbler]

I like travel because you can go to places that aren't your house.

[recursivelyenumerable]

if those places were any good they'd come to you instead.

[recursivelyenumerable]

ok.  I have a plan for tonight.

[tiesto]

If you did sex tourism, in like Thailand, or something, you could probably take care of 2. And on the long-ass plane ride, take care of a bit of 4 as well.

[recursivelyenumerable]

film festival was pretty cool, well the first half was. 

[Powerslave]

I'm feeling pretty awful lately

[GilloD]

Travel is fucking great. Stop going to a resort. Save up a thousand bucks and you can live like a king in Morrocco for two months. You'll change entirely. Do it, stop fucking around.

[recursivelyenumerable]

I'll do it when there's an ACM SIGPLAN conference in Morrocco

[GilloD]

I'll do it when there's an ACM SIGPLAN conference in Morrocco

Stop being a bitch and do it.

Alternately, stop "eye-dropping" your hobbies and just start doing them. Kill your interweb. You are your own problem!

[Eric P]

kill 5) and get your motivation back

seriously

[CajoleJuice]

yea i wish i never found GAF

and i hate that i converse with you guys more than my real-life friends

goddamn it

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[Tauntaun]

yea i wish i never found GAF

and i hate that i converse with you guys more than my real-life friends

goddamn it

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We could meet up and become friends in RL then you could converse with RL friends.    There'd be a lot moar "Tauntaun raped me" threads.

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[cool breeze]

Make a EB meet up somewhere on the east coast.

[CajoleJuice]

Make a EB meet up somewhere on the east coast.

It'd definitely be NYC. There's plenty of us around here.

[GilloD]

Make a EB meet up somewhere on the east coast.

It'd definitely be NYC. There's plenty of us around here.

I was just discussing this with EricP. I wonder if we ever pass each other on the street.

[T234]

I really wish I could go to an NYC-EB meetup, but I fear for parking.

[Eric P]

i think we would recognize Cajole from his pics.

i still have no realiable idea what you look like

you'd probably recognize me from my constant of Newsboy and driver style caps

[Tauntaun]

Make a EB meet up somewhere on the east coast.

It'd definitely be NYC. There's plenty of us around here.

I was just discussing this with EricP. I wonder if we ever pass each other on the street.

I really wish I could go to an NYC-EB meetup, but I fear for parking.

Subway.

[T234]

Well, I mean where the hell does New York City park? New Jersey? Philadelphia? Long Island?

[CajoleJuice]

I once saw tiesto at a local pizza place (closer to me than him), but he was with a big group of friends so I didn't say hi.

[Tauntaun]

I once saw tiesto at a local pizza place (closer to me than him), but he was with a big group of friends so I didn't say hi.

You totally should have went up to him and been like, "YO NUKKA IT'S CAJOLE FROM EVILBORE YOU cigarillo!"  Then you should have grabbed his dick and left.  That's what I'm gonna do when I scour LI for you.











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[tiesto]

Yeah, I didn't see Cajole that one time but I have met Cajole before and he's a cool dude. I was actually at Chinatown Fair on Saturday, do any of you NYCers go there?

[cool breeze]

Make a EB meet up somewhere on the east coast.

It'd definitely be NYC. There's plenty of us around here.

I am in Philadelphia, but going down there probably isn't a huge issue.  I am probably the only eb person in this shitty state.

[Tauntaun]

Yeah, I didn't see Cajole that one time but I have met Cajole before and he's a cool dude. I was actually at Chinatown Fair on Saturday, do any of you NYCers go there?

My wife and I go to Chinatown a couple times a year usually.  We're going to go back this fall because we found a cool ramen place that we need to try.

[GilloD]

Well, I mean where the hell does New York City park? New Jersey? Philadelphia? Long Island?

We take the subway.

[recursivelyenumerable]

So I'm having a pretty good time in Victoria now that Prole's gone.  I think his presence was casting a cloud of despair over the area.

[Van Cruncheon]

no doubt, some street clown wanted me to play cards with him and i told him to fuck off and he said i am the spirit of victoria and i will make all pay for your arrogance

[Eric P]

Yeah, I didn't see Cajole that one time but I have met Cajole before and he's a cool dude. I was actually at Chinatown Fair on Saturday, do any of you NYCers go there?

i was in the bowery where the fake chinatown populated by nothing but restaurant supply stores are.

this was after we hit up the St Gennaro's street fest in little italy

zomg the food was incredible