[ExI] abandoning hope - the queuing experience

[Amara Graps]

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com :
>Italian queues are just a tactful way to test your connectedness and
>creativity and slyness and Darwinian reflexes, so that due priority
>can be accorded to people exhibiting those traits. No self-respecting
>Italian would accept to wait in a queue unless and until all
>reasonable and unreasonable avoidance measures have been exhausted.
>:-)

This is one of those Latin versus Anglo things...

And obviously my connectedness to my Italian Social Network is is not as
deep and as widespread as a native-born Italian (if you could have
manufactured a pill that would allow me to be awake during my sleeping
hours between 2am and 7am to have time for this task) because my Italian
Working Network became very expensive (i.e.. more than my salary
allowed) and I needed to cultivate my connectedness to my NONItalian
Network to have _some_ resources to pay my rent and to save my science.
Capisci?

A repost...
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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:55:36 +0200
From: Amara Graps <amara at amara.com>
Subject: [wta-talk]  Apple drives posthuman evolution
To: wta-talk at transhumanism.org
Message-ID: <p06230900c2e74705490a@[23.237.66.13]>

Anders:
>British Gas and the proud traditions of British plumbing is driving my
>posthuman evolution towards arctic adaptation. No hot water for a month
>at home. I'd love to have a control for my skin sensitivity so I could
>turn off the cold receptors while showering. Ideally, we should have a
>spinal "firewall" that allows us to temporarily filter out pain or other
>irritating stimuli (for safety, it could both have a timer and never
>work 100%). In the meantime I'm training my willpower instead.

I _love_ visiting my friends (and hotel rooms) because they have bathrooms
that work... !

And they have nonSORBS-blacklisted Internet.

And telephones that don't ring three times throughout the day and night
and then stop.

And a gas company that doesn't send them threatening letters demanding
payment for six years before they moved in.

And Postal Mail that not only _arrives_, but arrives _regularly_.

Oh Anders, I have hot water, and you're welcome to use it. But you'll
need to exercise your posthuman dexterity and ingenuity to balance the
broken shower head that my landlord doesn't wish to fix.

Dear Universe, I thank you for Telecom Italia, Italgas, Fastweb, the
Questura, my landlords, and the post office clerks who are driving my
posthuman sensitivities, service department communication skills, bank
account, and above all, my _patience_ to be a much stronger posthuman
to build our Bright and Wonderful Future.   :-)

Ciao,
Amara

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