Humanize the Earth!

finally, a use for spam!

This website is set up so that anytime someone comments for the first time, I get an email asking me to approve posting it. The bulk of these comments are spam, that I mark as such, and you never see them. Annoying, to say the least. And yet today, this spam was actually useful! The spam comment was on this post: response to Tree’s Always in Open Space from October of 2005. Without using the word, in that post, I was talking about do-ocracy.

In my housing co-op, I want those most interested in gardening to do the gardening, and not worry about consulting with those that don’t care so much. Same with creating an organizing scheme for the basement. Hopefully everyone will participate in keeping things organized, but not everyone needs to create the scheme.

This is one of the reasons I feel I need to let go of my day job of 6 years. It’s not a do-ocracy. About two months before I wrote that post, I made my five year plan to leave the job. In June of 2006, I wrote about my five year plan again, though it had changed to a 3-4 year plan (with year 1 nearly finished). Here we are just a little over a year later, so just about to finish year 2, and my current thinking is that I’ll be done before the end of 2007. Anyway, interesting to look back and be reminded. Thanks spammer!