if any of my ex-cs friends want to relive old pains, you can help out with livejournal support questions. whee!
http://www.livejournal.com/support/help.bml
mostly they are pretty simple, and there is even a whole section of canned responses in the form of FAQ's, all neatly reffed on the support page a level back:
http://www.livejournal.com/support
what does this do for you? nothing really. you earn "points" supposedly redeemable at some point for something, but i'm not sure what. but i must admit it was fun to go out there and put some of my useless internet knowledge to the test.

in other news

yesterday was my livejournal's one-year anniversary. created at work on the 987654321'th second from Unix's incep date (yes, i am that big of a nerd.) the odd color combination comes from the influence of a celibratory toast at a work celibration that periphrially included srmg,sgnp, patty_puke, and coffee777 srmg gave me some dry hemp-flaxseed waffles that were so good. i hadn't eaten all day, and they were delicious but very dry. no-one was doing any work, because amazon had fired us all, but were keeping us all n for a month or two. since they don't give references, we were free to dgoof off as much as we liked. ideally, i would have a whole bunch of hyperlinks to fun and memorable entries, but since livejournal was getting hit like george foreman last night, i couldn't get past the timeout page. (damn sping break!) besides after review, i've decided that there are no fun and memorable entries.

i need to get on my horse about moving to philly. there are like a million things to do, like sit and decide when we will actually move, decide how much stuff to move, and then reserve a truck to move it all, plus there is resume updating and posting to do, and work gettng my portfolio in shape so that i can farm it about for some illustration jobs, plus remote househunting and the like

PLUS,

work for my senior thesis show is due on the first and second of may, and i have no idea how much work to give, and at this point, not even any idea for thematic material. i'm working like three or four plates right now, but those are mostly for the mother's day print sale, and are not necessarily "Fine art." i have lots of stuff in my portfolio, but very little that links up conceptually, except for the bee stuff, and i hgave little of that left because it sells so well, and dammit, i need the money. my metals projects are simple, but time consuming, and i am seriously rethinking all this crap i have signed up for.

finally, they keep me hopping at work, eating up any and all free time that i could use to complete these activities, and somehow, i still end up with only sixteen hours at work a week, when it feels like i spend far more time there. when the paycheck come, i always feel royally screwed. in addition, there isn't a microwave anywhere for me to eat lunch, so i end up buying stuff all day, and this makes our money situation worse, and the freezer is filling up with frozen food that i can never eat. (sigh.)

so what's up with you? since this is turning into "bitch" day, why don't you make me feel better about myself and tell me all of your petty bitches? i'd actually love to hear them.

apparantly 4 of us would like to be efficient, while 4 of us would rather be effective. 2 folks opted for "both" and then gave an interesting explaination, IMHO, mainly that "efficiency is a means, while effectiveness in an end, which would you have in this context?" were i hiring, i would recognize this as the "best" response.

as for me personally, here is how i would answer...one can be efficient without being effective. (corrolation is not causality.) and sometimes it is better to buckle under and get the job done, any way possible, rather than taking the time to be efficient about it, so i'd vote for an effective person over an efficient person.

stoppers	goers
10	3

so there you have it, most of us would stop, choosing to let a bodieless token of authority with no mind and no judgement rule over our common sense. the other three of us are probably dangerous anarchistic sociopaths with no regard for the law when it doesn't suit us.

Seriously... this question, asked here and on debate, was the result of an earlier debate question, essentially, "so you think that athiests are more likely to be amoral, since they have no higher authority to answer to?" The traffic light question is a test of my answer, mainly that people behave the way they do largely because of the "social contract" which they will follow regardless of contrary evidence, as long as no harm to them is involved, and they will follow this regardless of thier individual beliefs.

My answer to this question, (to which there isn't a real "right" answer, i can see the points of both,) by the way, is to run the light after first slowing and then stopping at it... essentially treating it as a stoplight. i do this in seattle quite often, and no harm comes to me.