GAME, WORK, GAME, EAT, SLEEP, GAME
ClickOnyxDC Always on PlayStation®5, Always Rambling
After over 6 months of crippling home renovation, no home office, and no gaming station I finally got my PS5 back and rapidly installed some of my favs.
A dopamine rush thanks to the God of War Ragnarök intro has me prepped for next weeks back to work, gaming and work.
Conclusion of not gaming for 3 months: It served no purposed and only made my anxious.
There’s a lovely moment in the 1993 thriller Falling Down when the Michael Douglas character realises that he is indeed the Bad Guy in the plot.
I like being in a position of accountability and have been a magnet for responsibility since my first job back in Baker’s Arms, Leyton, East London in the early 90’s. Things can easily turn sour when I don’t get my own way, my traits of leadership spin to being a tyrant and bully with an unrelenting fist of self-destruction. Basically, if I can’t have happiness you can’t either.
….but wait, this is just a movie, right?
Today, I AM the Bad guy so back off
A flight leaves Heathrow at 13:00 on route to Paris, on the way it experiences fatal engine failure and crashes in the Channel. The flight carries 120 passengers 20 in first class.
How many survivors will be buried on the French side and how many in the English side?
It’s interesting to observe how people communicate differently on personal matters depending on the device and method. There are so many factors that impact the sender’s mental state and tone of the message (personal or work device, signed or unsigned, the speed of transport (instant or slow), public or perceived private.
Formal and personal – hard copy letter. Shows the sender put in some thought and invested some resources (print, paper, envelope, postage and time costs) before sending and serves as hardcore historical evidence.
Formal and less personal –
email unsigned from a personal mobile device
email unsigned from work or business device
Email digitally signed on mobile device
Email from workstation
Email from laptop
Email from browsers
Many end-users actually see this as cold and heartless as “no one” emails about personal stuff anymore.
Informal and very personal
Instant messaging
iMessage
VOIP phone calls
The method of choice for a vast amount of people. The user tends to speak from the heart whether angry, sad or happy. Data is sent with no regard of security levels and assumptive privacy.
Consequences can be catastrophic or a euphoric high.
Choose your method wisely
My first gym session of the year felt great last night and is the perfect antidote to my PS4 Withdrawal. Grinding my way every night through FallOut4 will have to wait for now.
One pretty bad side effect is my tendency to trigger real-world arguments to feed my Amygdala. There is nothing better than a “good” argument to say the things you normally keep to yourself. Of course, for me, arguments have an even worst side effect of sparking MG symptoms of sleepiness and chronic fatigue.
Leaving my PS4 in another country is pretty much the only way I could whine myself off my trophy hunting addiction.
So, the extra 20+ hours I week I’ll gain from no gameplay will be spent on watching Twitch, research study, Movies and exercise. Most of all I need to work on my Cryptocurrency portfolio. After the last quarters rise in Coin values, the average business person is acutely aware of the potential and looking for stables ways to make a big buck.
I came across a new breed of company a few weeks ago. Hash Power Service provider meets Network marketing is an interesting blend that makes it easy for anyone to buy-in but it seems these hybrid business models for Cryptocurrency try to paint too much of a pretty picture for the consumer. In the meantime, the Meltdown vulnerability makes it clear that hardware Wallets are probably the way to go in the long-term.
30 mins cardio yesterday…no meds
Working or gaming. What difference does it make? Well, in most people’s heads, work is honourable and Gaming is not. This attitude maintains the digital divide between gaming professionals and everybody else.
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is a beautiful mind game. The screen warning only appears for 2 seconds and it’s clear from the outset that this game could mess with your mind.
The game’s opening credits feature a mental health advisor and it’s interesting that not many people are streaming it right now. Anyhow, this looks like a tasty treat for me to tackle this month.
10mg Lecithin yesterday
The classic dilemma for patch management is when to do it and what will it break. Especially, when dealing with Operating systems you run the risk of the application you’ve been using for decades suddenly not working (not supported).
This issue is bad enough when doing the upgrade for yourself but when you do it on behalf of a client you run the risk of being the root cause of the problem.
The latest MacOs upgrade is not compatible the Outlook for Mac 2013 (version 15.3), which was released October 2014….WTF. So now you have to spend time and money on an upgrade.
The best practice is to run a compatibility test on all applications especially business-critical ones. But why haven’t two of the biggest software vendors in the world built that into the OS upgrade process to at least notify the user?
Money talks louder, so shut up and buy the Office365 upgrade
Meanwhile, I try to keep my head straight and get totally distracted by just looking out the window. Austria is a great place to avoid mass marketing but dammit this has just pushed me back into my one-track mind.
What was the approval process for a company to register and pay for this domain and then actively market it?
So much for Global Thinking