The Hive is (realy) Dead! Long Live the Hive Mind!

[Mycanid]

Mushroom Man: I can not help it if I do not have mushrooms where I am. Well, good mushrooms anyways.

Don't worry about that sir ... I am only "giving you a hard time". We cannot all live in a mycanoidal paradise! In fact ... since it is winter and has been raining a bit lately I have been thinking I should look for some blewits. They love this kind of weather! Tasty critters too.

 

[Aurora]

No ma'am ... very few people ever ask me this.

Basically I am an IT for a small business (about 15 employees or so). But since it is a small publishing house I also help out in the shipping department quite a bit, especially during busy times of the year ... like now in fact!

You practically live in the middle of nowhere, right? Is it a far drive? Or is it in your little neighboring town?

Sorry, I am asking a lot of questions. I get this way sometimes. People interest me.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

I like History, Religion, Anthropology, Philosophy, English(Well, Creative Writing), and Biology.

I am not too great at math though.

 

[Aurora]

Don't worry about that sir ... I am only "giving you a hard time". We cannot all live in a mycanoidal paradise! In fact ... since it is winter and has been raining a bit lately I have been thinking I should look for some blewits. They love this kind of weather! Tasty critters too.

I think I need a book on mushrooms. My friend who was going to take me mushroom hunting isn't very happy with me, so he never did. He's just mad because he lives next door to a house I am going to rent out (I used to live there).

 

[Aurora]

I like History, Religion, Philosophy, English(Well, Creative Writing), and Biology.

I am not too great at math though.

I find that most people are either better at English or Math. Most rarely excel in both.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

I find that most people are either better at English or Math. Most rarely excel in both.

True.

I have a bad habit in which I get frustrated if I can not learn a subject right away. All the above I listed are easy for me, but I have to work hard at math, which makes me not like it as much.

 

[Aurora]

No ma'am ... very few people ever ask me this.

Basically I am an IT for a small business (about 15 employees or so). But since it is a small publishing house I also help out in the shipping department quite a bit, especially during busy times of the year ... like now in fact!

So, you do all the IT work for them? Wow. That can take a lot of knowledge. Especially if you have to deal with networks, web pages, helpdesk, internet security, etc. etc.

 

[Mycanid]

And what are the pillars of your world view?

Things that I found interesting in school were mythology, religion, philosophy, psychology, and art. Past that, most of it bored me. I found history okay, but preferred the study tours to book learning. English is my least favorite subject. Of course, I actually found it easier in college than I did in high school. Math was my favorite subject until Business Calc. I never studied for it though, it just came naturally.

Well ... very generally one could say "religion", specifically one could say Christianity, super specifically it would be Orthodox Christianity (a la Greek, Russian or Serbian Orthodox Christianity - same beliefs, different cultural context).

In school the things that I found interesting were literature and psychology. In this sense we are a little different! But even so it was not enough to elicit interest in making any sort of effort for the classes. I had no reason why. When I had the reason then it became interesting.

After my conversion literature and psychology remained major interests, but history, religion, the arts, philosophy, and even the sciences a bit became of interest. Math never has really caught on, though. I have gained a much deeper appreciation for the writings of the older "masters" of math, though, for whom it was a "school of logic" one trained in before going on to other disciplines. THAT is intersting. But Math is not taught like that nowadays, it seems.

Ah well....

Please pardon me if I am "soapboxing" a bit here by the way ... it is not my intent.

 

[Mycanid]

You practically live in the middle of nowhere, right? Is it a far drive? Or is it in your little neighboring town?

Sorry, I am asking a lot of questions. I get this way sometimes. People interest me.

I don't live practically in the middle of nowhere, it IS in the middle of nowhere. The press is only a few miles in a neighboring town. All the business is done through the mail or UPS.

 

[Mycanid]

I think I need a book on mushrooms. My friend who was going to take me mushroom hunting isn't very happy with me, so he never did. He's just mad because he lives next door to a house I am going to rent out (I used to live there).

The book I would recommend, if you can find it, is MUSHROOMS DEMYSTIFIED. It's an excellent book. The author is David Aurora.

And yes - I do the servers, the networking, building the machine, the whole nine yards. Fancy way of just saying "It's my fault."