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Quirk Meme
Nov. 17th, 2006 02:40 pmSince I'm stuff off work with a dose of the Newbie Shits1 you lucky people get the "10 weird things about you" meme.
Hmm.
Maybe you don't. I'm trying to think, but I'm stuck between really reaching, stuff of the "look at me, I'm mad me" variety, and stuff that would probably get me arrested. Perhaps it might be more interesting to see what other people think is weird - then one could defend one's foibles (or not) and get an idea for whether what they think is weird really is. I mean, doesn't everyone collect teabags, have premonitions of losing an arm, shiver at the refrain of Past The Mission, name their bicycles, expect to do jail time, and grok the crystal skull thing as the bones of angels?
Thinking of memes, I think it would be grand sport to set up a memetic duel. Memefight. We've seen the entertaining grudge match that is Popes vs Saladin, and the uneven (but honestly declared) match between Scientology and the Church of All Worlds (which goes to show that memetic rules trump rational analyses of the ideas carried within those memes). We're a brain-species with a rich sea of memetic chuff to play with. Surely a memefight is the Singularity equivalent of late-night boxing? Bring in on!
1New staff pick up one or two of the endemic strains of viral gastro, or D&V, or Norwalk (depending on which local paper is reporting the scandal that sick people are diseased) from the wards or infected patients. After a couple of doses, they develop resistance to further infection from the same strain, so it affects newbies more than long-term staff. Still, it means that Infection Control (here are the facts) won't let me near a patient area for the rest of the month. Which would be worth it if I didn't have gym-ache in my abs and obliques from last nights poo-fest. TMI? You betcha
Hmm.
Maybe you don't. I'm trying to think, but I'm stuck between really reaching, stuff of the "look at me, I'm mad me" variety, and stuff that would probably get me arrested. Perhaps it might be more interesting to see what other people think is weird - then one could defend one's foibles (or not) and get an idea for whether what they think is weird really is. I mean, doesn't everyone collect teabags, have premonitions of losing an arm, shiver at the refrain of Past The Mission, name their bicycles, expect to do jail time, and grok the crystal skull thing as the bones of angels?
Thinking of memes, I think it would be grand sport to set up a memetic duel. Memefight. We've seen the entertaining grudge match that is Popes vs Saladin, and the uneven (but honestly declared) match between Scientology and the Church of All Worlds (which goes to show that memetic rules trump rational analyses of the ideas carried within those memes). We're a brain-species with a rich sea of memetic chuff to play with. Surely a memefight is the Singularity equivalent of late-night boxing? Bring in on!
1New staff pick up one or two of the endemic strains of viral gastro, or D&V, or Norwalk (depending on which local paper is reporting the scandal that sick people are diseased) from the wards or infected patients. After a couple of doses, they develop resistance to further infection from the same strain, so it affects newbies more than long-term staff. Still, it means that Infection Control (here are the facts) won't let me near a patient area for the rest of the month. Which would be worth it if I didn't have gym-ache in my abs and obliques from last nights poo-fest. TMI? You betcha
