Your revolution is fatally deficient in my favoured dance step.

[reddragdiva]

I have not enough time on my hands, but far too much ennui. I'm bored. I need a purpose in life again.

This is your golden opportunity to recruit me to your cause and make it my new hobby.

The hard part: I have to consider it inherently interesting. There are vast quantities of highly worthwhile things I'm not working on but instead giving a bit of money to bribe others to think about.

Go on, make your pitch. What's your mission and what's the fun bit? What's your current obsession? ^* What's your favourite big unsolved problem?

* that could not be described as mere consumerism

Comments

[alexmc]

> I need a purpose in life again.


When you find one can you let me know what it is?


I kind of threw everything into family and then that went AWOL.

[rbarclay]

Well, there's the thing I only throw a bit of money at nowadays, mostly because I was involved out for quite a couple years and am very tired, indeed, of the whole thing (or, to be more precise, of too many of the people involved).

It's the privacy cause, and pretty much every of the organization’s in need of much volunteer support. From looking at http://edri.org/about/members I guesstimate at least 3 UK-based efforts.
And if you want a more direct goal, consider working towards another round of Big Brother Awards for the UK, seems the last was awarded in 2008: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_Awards_%28United_Kingdom%29

[reddragdiva]

I am an ORG member.

[ciphergoth]

Not that I expect you to buy my way of looking at things, but I think it's hard for any other cause to compete with the job of trying to increase the chances that humanity survives the next hundred years...

[reddragdiva]

Yes, but I'm not the only one reading. Job, did you say?

[ciphergoth]

As in task. Extremely few people get to make a living out of it. Sorry!

[reddragdiva]

That's what I thought :-) So, got a pitch you think you could make in your own words? What would you say to recruit the merely bright, like me?

[nanaya]

I'd make a pitch for gardening, but I don't know how useful that is to you right now.

[reddragdiva]

Clearing assorted rubbish out of the back yard would probably be quite productive ;-)

Activate Reston5!

[sidhedmento]

Re: Activate Reston5!

[reddragdiva]

See, that's an example of a problem someone much better at is working on and I'll throw a few bucks at and advocate others do so.

[damerell]

Writing a roguelike very slowly. Not much help, but it's what I'm doing.

[mouseworks]

Move to a poor Latin American country with fantastic hills and learn Spanish and be amazed at gringos who think poverty is an economic opportunity for them.

not enough time -> meh

[spz]

... otherwise I'd have recommended grabbing the open source project closest to your tastes and killing a bug today (die! die! die! *splat*).
That does require some time, though.

Re: not enough time -> meh

[reddragdiva]

It is times like this I somewhat regret so not being a coder.

[marahmarie]

Overthrowing Google. Ready?

If not, I have another project for your gentle consideration: revolutionizing the Web the way I describe in this post. I dream about it; it keeps me up at night, and I awake in the morning thinking only how to get it done. Passion doesn't even begin to describe how I feel about this. Are you a web dev, designer, or programmer? Doesn't matter - neither am I. Whaddaya think?