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gordonzola ([personal profile] gordonzola) wrote2006-02-02 03:44 pm

Where's my Slingshot?

My LJ friend [livejournal.com profile] douglain was discussing Slingshot Organizers over in his journal and it made me realize mine was lost. I love my Slingshot because it fits in my back pocket, and carrying it around 24 hours day is the only way that I can keep track of my schedule and not fuck it up.

Today for example. I have a meeting at 9 AM with a new co-op, a cheese department meeting that I will be going late to at 11. A meeting with a different new co-op at 4. A short conference call with a 3rd new co-op at 5 and a meeting of the BOD of the local worker co-op organization from 7-9PM. Also in there, I’m supposed to work a 7 hour cheese shift (usually 8 but our meeting lops off an hour) which is not mathematically possible. Of course except for the cheese meeting which is partly my fault for not noticing, I didn’t really have options for the other things because they are either long overdue or crisis driven. I woke up at 6 dreading this long day ahead.

I find that’s the best thing about having a datebook actually. Trying to keep all my meetings in my head stresses me out enough to lose me sleep. I tend towards anxiousness anyway, but it’s like getting a pre-dawn wake up call when I haven’t been writing things down. My brain says time to get up in case you scheduled something else and forgot.

Lke I said above, I use the Slingshot because it fits in my back pocket, but that doesn’t mean I don’t find it embarrassing sometimes. This year’s cover is truly shameful, bringing up everything I dislike about my people, the anarchists. I maintain that the characters on the cover are not furries. They are re-feralized humans happy that the cities are burning so they can return to a truly free existence facing starvation and imminent death. Will they be able to give up the discovery of fire after it does it’s cleansing work of ridding the earth of excess people? Only time will tell.

At least this year there seemed to be fewer penises drawn on random dates like a 4th grader’s desk.

I do like the way almost every date has some important moment in radical history attached to it though I find it odd that Michel Foucault doesn’t merit a mention on our shared birthday. Are the furry anarchists anti-intellectual? Say it isn’t so.

I bet a lot of you have Slingshots too, don't you?

[identity profile] 7leaguebootdisk.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Any you carry at least part of their line.

[identity profile] sparkle-shortz.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
ps G, I will send you a nice pink sticker that says "and you thought GOD made the weather", if you want.

[identity profile] easilyirritable.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Off topic - last night I went to my first ever anarchist collective meeting. I was very confused when everyone would stick their hands up in the air and twinkle their fingers, but then I remembered a post you made on the subject of 'twinkling' a while ago and suddenly I had trouble not laughing to myself. Very amusing.

[identity profile] loolica.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
yes, plus:
Western concepts of order, such as a linear organization to pages in a book, are killing the earth and making us all miserable. We hope the special “16 non-linear pages” in the spiral organizer can play a small part in breaking the chains that bind us.

[identity profile] tinymammoth.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
This bothers me, too, and I am a libertarian capitalist! Pirates were horrible, loathesome people. I guess though that their archetypal representation means something different.

I can't shake the feeling that it's a little like people two hundered years from now wearing Nazi uniforms.

[identity profile] freshwater-pr0n.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
The brick o' data is the one accessory we can both agree on!

[identity profile] dcart.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I have carried one in the past, but eventually my techno geek got the better of me. I've been back and forth between no organizer and palm os based organizer since 2002, currently using a Treo 650 palm phone.

[identity profile] elementa.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I have absolutely NO problem with feral cat-humans who are clearly not furries. *ahem*

And now I will have to go purchase one of the organizers later on today or tomorrow, because I am still without a houseboy who would take care of these things for me.

[identity profile] rockgeisha.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah, I'm just late for everything.

[identity profile] corvus.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Bah. This is my first year in a few where I decided not to buy a Slingshot. The cover art was a bit much, the extra sections were boring and made me roll my eyes x10, and I just wasn't feeling it. Anarchists are silly and I'm way too cynical sometimes to not get depressed by things like that. Lifestylism! Boo! ;-)

Re: A day in the life

[identity profile] anarqueso.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Have I mentioned recently how mean you are?

[identity profile] gordonzola.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
omg, you totally should have stood up and demanded they stop twinkling BECAUSE IT'S SO INCREDIBLY CREEPY.

[identity profile] reveritas.livejournal.com 2006-02-02 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
i never heard of it in my life, but now i want one (i just use a plain notebook because i make so many lists) and it will be the most revolutionary thing i own except for the boots in this usericon.

[identity profile] chitinous.livejournal.com 2006-02-03 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
I'm a mini-Filofaxer, primarily because it's a 3-ring binder, and the inner calendar and address book pages are removable. I get new calendar pages every year and add address pages as need be. No commie-pinko quotes, but no tree-killing, either.

The first I'd heard of Slingshots was when I saw yours, and given that the cover is totally a picture of 2 creepy furries (deny all you like), there is no way in hell I'd use a Slingshot now.

[identity profile] goodbadgirl.livejournal.com 2006-02-03 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
I had to google it. I just write things on my hand. It's tough enough finding someone to carry my purse these days let alone a huge planner with penises on it.

[identity profile] metagrrrl.livejournal.com 2006-02-03 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
thanks, redshrike. If you hadn't linked I was gonna have to...

[identity profile] gordonzola.livejournal.com 2006-02-03 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
I had to google it.

you could have just followed the link, Sweets.

xo

[identity profile] gordonzola.livejournal.com 2006-02-03 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
no, our fashion must be out of style again. Have a good weekend. I am so excited for you!

[identity profile] gordonzola.livejournal.com 2006-02-03 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
xo

[identity profile] goodbadgirl.livejournal.com 2006-02-03 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
Nobody appreciates a smartass cheese monger. FYI.

xo

[identity profile] gordonzola.livejournal.com 2006-02-03 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
yeah, one year they made big only. There was an uprising bigger than any anarchist protest in recent memory.

[identity profile] gordonzola.livejournal.com 2006-02-03 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
sharing a datebook = ewwwwwww.


i think I've had them every year since they first came out (which must have been around 1994). Some other anarcho folks did a rival one (Chicago Autonomous Zone?) one year but hey, the Slingshot folks are nothing if not steady.

[identity profile] gordonzola.livejournal.com 2006-02-03 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
yeah, it's a cultural thing. ;)

Re: PS

[identity profile] gordonzola.livejournal.com 2006-02-03 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
invisibilised is a good word.

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