Jobs

I read recently that the unemployment rate went up some more. Which led me to an interesting thought experiment. As technology improves, there are less and less people doing labor, service, and retail jobs as well.

For example, Red Box are these are closing down Blockbusters and Hollywood Videos everywhere. All the people previously employed at Blockbusters and Hollywood Videos are replaced by Red Boxes. AMT machines decreasing the need for tellers, and U-Scans taking jobs of baggers and cashiers.

I mean if look at the long run implications of these modern technology advancements in the future we'll see less and less people with jobs. These people will need to find other methods of making money from the weathly few or make money from the people who are making money from the weathly few. :)

It seems like more and more people are headed to entertainment industry. Do something entertaining and make money from everyone. Since technology advances, machines are doing the work for everyone. People have more and more time do to leisurely activities rather than working. So they need some sort of entertainment to take up their time.

Imagine if we reach the end of our future (which is like infinity where we'll never reach), people wouldn't need to do anything because theres some sort of machine or technology that does whatever we use to do. Cooking, washing, work, accounting, or any task you consider as chore or annoying. Everyone will just have 24 hours of free time, because there is jobs to do. The only thing people can do for each other entertain. I don't know how money would work by then, we probably wouldn't even use money it would be more of a social communist-like world and people just give points for people who are cool, entertaining, or awesome.

But we'll never reach that perfect world where there is no work, so I predict in the future if you can't do entertainment, you'll be the few that will be working. In a world of 90% entertainers and 10% workers. I'm sure you can feel that we're already headed that way. You fake at work to get people's approval and fake at a job interview, so you can get the job. Its all part of the job of being an entertainer.

Becoming a better person

I was just thinking about something earlier today. What is the difference between becoming a better person and being someone you're not.

For example, you know how some people you look at, and you think man that person is so fake... he is not being himself. What if he was just trying to be a better person. If you're trying to become a better person, of course you are not being yourself, because you're aiming to be someone better. So what makes the difference between the two. Being someone you are not, is very negative while aiming to become a better person is positive. Its like the same thing, but its based on how people view you as.

How do you be the person that looks like he is aiming to become a better person rather than being the person thats fake. I'm just making this up as I go now, I think humbleness is good. Confidence. MOST of it is probably confidence. If I saw someone not very confident doing something it makes them look fake. But a problem occurs when you are being confident about something you are not really good at. When someone knows you are not good at a certain topic, and you pretend to be really good at it then that person will perceive you as fake.

Its like this crazy circle where you have to do this to appear not fake, but if you do this then you are a fake. I read or heard somewhere that the only way to be truly confident is to practice and get better skills at whatever you want to be confident in. I guess in order to become a better person, you have to work on a bunch of skills and practice those skills and then be confident in your skills. Then you won't be a fake.

Or if you don't want to practice you could be a fake and pretend to be confident in everything and trick the world of stupid people but fail to impress the rest of the world.

Nicknames

Nicknames are awesome. Everyone should make nicknames for people. You can promote yourself like how I am known as "The Awesome" or you could secretly talk about someone without them knowing about. Two quick nicknames, I made before is Gary for male homosexual, and Leslie for female homosexual. For example if I was in a crowded street where I sighted a guy wearing a tie-dyed shirt with capris pants I could ask, "is that Gary?" I can ask a friend without being rude by saying gay. Then my friend can be like ya that looks like Gary or, no I don't think that's Gary.

Maybe I could create a company just making nicknames for people. Like people will pay me to think of nicknames, and I could be famous for the guy who makes names for people. My occupation will be Nickname Originator aka NO. Look I'm so good at making names.

Live everyday as if it is your last

Finally figured out the true meaning to that quote. Before I thought it was kind of silly to think like that, because you'll do some things without thinking about the long term consequences. The quote is more about helping you find out what you really want to do in life.

Everyday there are opportunities, like a beautiful girl walking past you or walking by someone you use to know, or just thinking about an old friend and wondering if you should give them a call or message. Most of the time you let the beautiful girl pass you by, and ignore that person you use to know walking by you, and skip that old friend that you haven't talked to in a while.

Next time when an opportunity arise, ask yourself do you want to do this if you were to die tomorrow? If I were to die tomorrow, do I want to meet this beautiful girl today? Do I want to speak with this person from the past. Do I want to talk to my old friend? Its your last chance, your one and only opportunity.

If you answered yes then why wait? Go for it. Sometimes you don't really care about that person, and it be totally fine if I died tomorrow without talking to that fool! :) but other times you do want to meet that beautiful girl so take a chance, because today might be your last.

Rapping/Freestyling

Rapping and Freestyling is pretty awesome. Its like a complicated but powerful way of expressing your feelings, emotions, and ideas. Sometimes I think of witty lines and try to write down some rhymes for a rap. I'm not going to put any up here, because it is probably going be stolen for some song. Yah it is that good :)

What I wanted to talk about is something I found out to make rapping and freestyling easier. In the past, I would try to freestyle, and it would be so hard to even find rhyme words. For a simple demonstration I will use the line, "Ya, I'm so cool" "uh uh something something from school!" I'm so busy thinking about the rhyme its like hard to freestyle anything at all. So instead of thinking of rhyme words, I will think about what to say "Ya I'm so cool" "I got girls with me..."
girls with me = cool right?! haha anyways so my head i'm thinking about what is cool. At the same time I am using my head to visualize all the words that rhymes with cool. "fool, drool, pool, school, toadstool, rule, tool, mule and so on"

So I'm not thinking about these words they're just floating around in my head as I visualize these words, then I can allow space for my brain to think about what to rap about that would work with this list of rhyme words.
"Ya, I'm so cool" "Even got girls wit me in the pool" or "I never follow rules"
whatever it may be.

BTW this is probably the worst line ever because I don't want to showcase any talent which could be stolen from this blog :) also I have to admit I'm horrible at freestyling, but this technique has upgraded my incredibly terrible talent of freestyling to plain bad. Hopefully, it will be good someday.
Anyways, this is my awesome post of the day!
... cause I got nothing else to say :)

Concert

Wondergirls were playing at the Moore Theatre in Seattle yesterday. So when concerts ends... there is an encore thing, where the performer come out and does another song or performance. But is it really an encore when its already preplanned? Like it was a premediated encore song. They make the audience yell and scream their name and ask for more. Minutes later they come out wearing a totally new outfit thats set for that song they were already planning to performi. I think that's kind of silly, it is not a real encore because they're suppose to be spontaneous. Encores should be there only when crowd wants more. When its so premediated makes people want to not ask for an encore... It is sort of silly.

Anyways I think it would be awesome if a large crowd of people ask for an encore and the performer who did not expect the encore, does a spontaneous performance, even if its the same song, or sing something new that the performer was not expecting to perform.

If I were a Blogger

Weird so while I was doing my last post about approachability, my last sentence lead me to an interesting discovery. I didn't know if I was suppose to use "If everybody was" or "If everybody were".
I found this website
http://www.sew-wrc.com/idea-motivator/2007/02/09/grammar-rules-if-i-was-or-if-i-were/

The rule is if the subject is not what you are saying then you should use were. If you don't know if the subject is or is not what you are saying then use was. I think most people are unaware of this rule. So now its like I know something most people don't... and I wonder if other bloggers are trying to be be more grammatically correct like I am when they are writing their blogs. Anyways heres a video to help you remember this rule weird grammar rule...

Fiddler on the Roof "If I were a Rich Man" go watch 5:15 that part is awesome. Fist throwing dance :)