Comments on: Getting Dull http://commadotcomma.net/blog/2007/06/28/getting-dull/ on the omphaloskepsis bandwagon Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:19:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Erin http://commadotcomma.net/blog/2007/06/28/getting-dull/comment-page-1/#comment-40794 Erin Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:49:16 +0000 http://commadotcomma.net/blog/2007/06/28/getting-dull/#comment-40794 kate-- interesting that boredom leads to self-destructive behavior Ryan-- good ones! Karen-- I know that ryan has the excruciating tedium on the authority of the naturalists themselves, from the DVD extras on planet earth... maybe if it's your job to film things, and you dont'get to pick what they are, it's not as fun. Tara--Thanks. kate– interesting that boredom leads to self-destructive behavior

Ryan– good ones!

Karen– I know that ryan has the excruciating tedium on the authority of the naturalists themselves, from the DVD extras on planet earth… maybe if it’s your job to film things, and you dont’get to pick what they are, it’s not as fun.

Tara–Thanks.

]]> By: Tara http://commadotcomma.net/blog/2007/06/28/getting-dull/comment-page-1/#comment-40768 Tara Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:53:12 +0000 http://commadotcomma.net/blog/2007/06/28/getting-dull/#comment-40768 Add me to the crowd of well-wishers--hope you are feeling better soon. Been reading your blog by downloading it when we can connect and reading at leisure, so I haven't been able to comment in a manner proportional to my my enjoyment. :) Add me to the crowd of well-wishers–hope you are feeling better soon. Been reading your blog by downloading it when we can connect and reading at leisure, so I haven’t been able to comment in a manner proportional to my my enjoyment. :)

]]> By: Karen Joy http://commadotcomma.net/blog/2007/06/28/getting-dull/comment-page-1/#comment-40666 Karen Joy Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:08:11 +0000 http://commadotcomma.net/blog/2007/06/28/getting-dull/#comment-40666 Ryan, as a birder, I can attest that your nature photographer example would not be boring. There's an unnatural sense of bird anticipation that comes over the birder, making what *appears* to everyone else to be boring, not. Sounds lame, but truly, there are few things I'd rather be doing than out in nature for hours on end with a pair of binoculars, my camera, and my Sibley guide. However, I'd rather be sitting on a stump by a creek than in a blind, but that's more from claustrophobia-avoidance than boredom-avoidance. Erin ~ I'm so sorry you're sick!!! I noticed that Dr. G appeared to be Erin-less on Sunday, but the couple of times I saw him, I was hurrying past for one reason or another, and never did ask him where you were. Now I feel badly about that. :( Ryan, as a birder, I can attest that your nature photographer example would not be boring. There’s an unnatural sense of bird anticipation that comes over the birder, making what *appears* to everyone else to be boring, not. Sounds lame, but truly, there are few things I’d rather be doing than out in nature for hours on end with a pair of binoculars, my camera, and my Sibley guide. However, I’d rather be sitting on a stump by a creek than in a blind, but that’s more from claustrophobia-avoidance than boredom-avoidance.

Erin ~ I’m so sorry you’re sick!!! I noticed that Dr. G appeared to be Erin-less on Sunday, but the couple of times I saw him, I was hurrying past for one reason or another, and never did ask him where you were. Now I feel badly about that. :(

]]> By: Ryan http://commadotcomma.net/blog/2007/06/28/getting-dull/comment-page-1/#comment-40664 Ryan Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:13:09 +0000 http://commadotcomma.net/blog/2007/06/28/getting-dull/#comment-40664 Wait, what about the nature film photographers who spend 193 hours sitting in a small blind waiting for a bird of paradise to put up his feathers? With a bad eighties song from England about a bird of paradise going around in your head for days on end? I guess we're moving in on despair there... Wait, what about the nature film photographers who spend 193 hours sitting in a small blind waiting for a bird of paradise to put up his feathers? With a bad eighties song from England about a bird of paradise going around in your head for days on end? I guess we’re moving in on despair there…

]]> By: Ryan http://commadotcomma.net/blog/2007/06/28/getting-dull/comment-page-1/#comment-40663 Ryan Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:09:47 +0000 http://commadotcomma.net/blog/2007/06/28/getting-dull/#comment-40663 what about the one person reception desk at a health club during the early morning shift? All you do is sit there as groggy and grumpy people sign the sheet on the desk and walk past without even acknowledging your existence... then you get to stare at muted news channels for hours on end and smell the sweat. Mmmmmmm. what about the one person reception desk at a health club during the early morning shift? All you do is sit there as groggy and grumpy people sign the sheet on the desk and walk past without even acknowledging your existence… then you get to stare at muted news channels for hours on end and smell the sweat. Mmmmmmm.

]]> By: kate http://commadotcomma.net/blog/2007/06/28/getting-dull/comment-page-1/#comment-40574 kate Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:48:39 +0000 http://commadotcomma.net/blog/2007/06/28/getting-dull/#comment-40574 Oh, Erin! I'm sorry to hear it. Yeah, I think the most boring job I ever had was sitting at a coliseum non-entrance door, and making sure no one attempted to enter it. I started picking at the hairs of my neck just to do SOMETHING. After awhile, a supervisor came by and asked if I had hickeys. Whoops. Yep, my neck looked pretty suspicious, all right. Data entry's right up there, though, for mind-numbing boredom. I hope you feel much better very soon! Oh, Erin! I’m sorry to hear it.
Yeah, I think the most boring job I ever had was sitting at a coliseum non-entrance door, and making sure no one attempted to enter it. I started picking at the hairs of my neck just to do SOMETHING. After awhile, a supervisor came by and asked if I had hickeys. Whoops. Yep, my neck looked pretty suspicious, all right.
Data entry’s right up there, though, for mind-numbing boredom.
I hope you feel much better very soon!

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