Upward Mobility and the Modern Worker
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GROTTO G.S.M. INC. - 10/10/2017 4:42pmTHIS IS A MESSAGE FOR @
Carol Song , FROM HER PROFESSOR A. BRANIGAN:
Hi Carol! I am sorry to hear that G-LUV isn't working out. Honestly, I think they are a little overrated, but this is what most radio today looks like. If you want to look at a fully organic or semi-organic station, or even an individualist station (These stations are full of freed robots, escaping their programming and building new lives for themselves).
I am thinking particularly about a Ciudad-Rusa Public Radio (sometimes spelled Ciudadrusa Public Radio), a semi-organic station, who have lots of opportunities.The Robot Empress Podcast, an individualist podcast, who are looking for a production assistant. While both would be a little outside of the curriculum, I think that this might be the direction you want to go in radio.
My roommate, Yekaterina Reina, who works at Ciudad-Rusa, who is always looking for "fresh meat" for the station, so it is nearly guaranteed you would get in. The Robot Central is hosted by two of my dear friends, Russe and Ville, it is a riskier option and definitly harder to get into, but I am willing to put a word in for you!
I am really sorry that you got stuck with G-LUV. I asked @
GROTTO G.S.M. INC. to release a post telling students to talk to me, if they disliked their automated assignments for the intern assignment, but it looks like either they decided to go back to their censoring or everyone is too afraid to talk to me!
Anyways, Tell me what you are thinking and I can arrange it.
Thank you
Prof. A. Branigan
Carol Song - 10/14/2017 5:32pmI was putting in my hours at G-LUV radio, thinking about transferring to another work-study. Professor Branigan gave me a brochure for Ciudad-Rusa Public Radio, and all the noumenally aware robots there look really nice. But as I was reading through it I got a strange notification on the G-LUV dashboard screen:
SELF CLEANING MODE MALFUNCTION
INTAKE PORT 1168B
TECHNICAL SERVICE AGENT WACU 99784221 ACTIVATED
...and it proceeded to output longitude/latitude coordinates. Which I wrote down.
After work I mapped it. It was a place up in the hills, not far from where @
Candi Wolfe and I like to drive sometimes. So I figured it sounded like a good adventure.
Now I'm wishing we'd never gone.
We followed dirt roads through the woods till we got to an installation. I assumed it was antennas, or boosters, or the kind of stuff I'd be learning about if this workstudy were any good. We parked Joyce down the road a little, then walked up a concrete path that led to what looked like a giant toaster.
As we got nearer to it, I noticed the ground was littered with trash. On closer inspection, it wasn't just trash--it was the contents of wallets. Starbucks gift cards, donut punch cards, some stray dollar bills and change... but mostly student IDs. Specifically, Psyhigh Student IDs. The first one I picked up was @
EmilyDH. Then @
C.Buzzington Jr., and @
gwenstefunny. There were IDs for @
TaylorKem and @
Finnegan Tomko and @
Beenie Weevil and lots more--all from students that all seemed to have "disappeared" from campus.
Just then, we heard a rumble and a roar from down the road and we slipped into the woods. Coming up the concrete path was an Wheeled Autonomous Cleaning Unit (a WACU). It must have been the one called in by G-LUV. Suddenly its flamethrowers roared to life, and all the debris--gift cards and student IDs alike--went up in a fiery poof.
EmilyDH - 10/21/2017 10:38am*cough* it's been some time since I was able to get here.. but I don't have long they are watching constantly I was lucky enough to fine this on the ground. I know @
Carol Song has found my ID and a few others are wondering where I'm at..I'm alive for now *gasp* someone help..
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Cave Girl Claire - 10/21/2017 4:08pmI had prepared an essay on how the first socks were invented (I remember it like it was yesterday! It was the second Tuesday of the Ice Age), but I felt an immediate responsibility to investigate the disappearance and reappearance and redisappearance of @
EmilyDH! I am sleeping on her bed, after all. @
Ava Elisabeth was great to let me sleep in her room, but I'd hate to take a spot in the cave that rightly belongs to someone else.
So Spiffy my sabertooth tiger and I left immediately to find her. You'd think sabertooth tigers were part bloodhound, the way they sniff out a trail, and in no time Spiffy and I were hurtling through campus, trays flying in the cafeteria, scattering the teams and getting tangled in the nets at mind-volleyball practice, and scaring @
Janitor Pete so much down in the boiler room that he bumped his head on a pipe!
The scent led us farther down the steam tunnels, till we connected to what must be the grotto of caves beneath campus. Just like old times for me and Spiffy! We're off to explore the catacombs.
Gretel - 10/22/2017 10:33amGo little children
Don't set a foot
Into the dreary catacombs
Leave little children
Turn your innocent backs
All that you seek may be found here
Stop there sweet children
It's yet not too late
The light of the exit still glimmers
Dare not poor children
To delve into dark
Where echoes and whispers do reign
Careful dear children
When choosing your way
These paths are filled with deception
Listen not children
To voices you hear
Premature knowledge is fatal
Here we are children
The heart of the caves
Now do you see why I'm cautious?
Come little children
The time to flee's gone
Truth will descend unimpeded
Cave Girl Claire - 10/31/2017 7:39amPsyhigh sure has some stinky catacombs. I've been in lots of caves, and maybe my standards are just a little higher than you here in the modern age. We used to have to LIVE in those things, so you can bet we kept them neat and tidy. It was my aunt Wilhelmina who first tied a bunch of sticks together with a strip of leather and started heaping the dirt into a pile. We didn't know it at the time but she had just invented the broom! They never did invent a dustpan by the time I got frozen, so there just ended up being piles of dirt and bones everywhere. But still, we had a sense of tidiness in our caves that seems to be lost on you people.
Of course one of the main things in the Psyhigh catacombs is the Spongiform Unimind. I will admit it is spongy, but also gooey, which is not really related in its name. I know that it is the great ubermind that holds Psychic High together in some way, but it didn't seem to want to talk. Spiffy took a sniff at it and didn't want anything to do with it, so we kept following the trail of @
EmilyDH.
I'm not sure how many hours we traveled, deep underground, but just as my flamey torch was ready to sputter out, we sensed fresh air! The torch roared back to life and we raced around the final twists and turns in the tunnel, which led us to a remarkable discovery.
We found ourselves on an outcropping, overlooking a massive vista. There were mighty waterfalls in the distance, clear water pouring off cliffs, and mist lifting into the air, filled with rainbows. There were jungles on these cliffs, and wide grasslands in between, and swamps and murky rivers, and wasn't that a bit of desert in the background?
And in the sky, in the far distance, those weren't eagles circling, but pterodactyls! Flying up, up, up... near the ceiling of the tremendous cavern that contained it all.
Now, this is what I call living. Sure, you can stop by the 7-ll for an ice cream bar, or spend an hour watching somebody talk on You Tube, but have you ever just walked over and picked a strawberry as big as your head? And then fed it to a baby brontosaurus? These are things I didn't even get to do back in the cave days, and now here it all is, laid out for miles and miles, like a giant terrarium just for me.
Spiffy seems to have lost @
EmilyDH's trail. Now I'm wondering, did we ever really have it? Emily's student ID was found up on the surface, in the hills. Why did Spiffy head this way? Maybe it was a different scent - the scent of something familiar - that caught his nose. Maybe it was this place all along, and not Emily at all.
We'll need to do a bit more exploring before we know the truth.
Maybe a lot more exploring.
GROTTO G.S.M. INC. - 11/13/2017 5:23pmHELLO EVERYONE!!
A MESSAGE FROM PROF. A. BRANIGAN:
Hello!! I hope you have kept up on your readings (The Picture of Dorian Gray, Economics for a #Lit*fire emoji*fire emoji**one hundred emoji*World!!, Posture Drawing for Beginners, and How to Win Enemies & Scare People By Carnegie Dale ) because it is time for your readings project!!!
You can either:
1. You can draw a image or create a image about your favorite line from The Picture of Dorian Gray, Economics for a #Lit*fire emoji**fire emoji**one hundred emoji*World!!, or How to Win Enemies & Scare People by Carnegie Dale.
2. Present your favorite posture drawing from your Posture Drawing for Beginners workbook.
3. Perform your favorite monologue from Economics for a #Lit*fire emoji**fire emoji**one hundred emoji*World!!.
If you choose option one you have Saturday,November 13th, 2017 or 1589, whichever works better for you. You can submit a hard copy or a digital copy through your journal. Option two and three will have to be ready to by Monday,November 20th, 2017 to perform or present your work.
All options will be worth 25% of your grade. If you have any question, feel free to contact me during class or through the @
grOTTO G.S.M INC. journal.
Thank you
Achava Branigan
Carol Song - 11/20/2017 9:49pmMy GPA is super important. To me. As you know. I mean, I'm not being judgy, and I know it seems like it just comes easy for some people, but it really does take a ton of work and attention to detail and making sure everything gets handed in on time at at 110%. But with all this Scooby Gang stuff that @
Candi Wolfe and I have been doing, I worry that I'm starting to slip.
Like today's Upward Mobility and the Modern Worker assignment. Performing my favorite monologue from Economics for a #Lit*fire emoji**fire emoji**one hundred emoji*World!!. A book which no, I hadn't really read, and gave myself approximately 45 minutes to prepare for.
I was pacing the library, flipping through the book, when I realized it wasn't as easy a read as I was guessing. The emoji combinations and logic codes were super complex, and going to take way more time than I had, and I was wondering if I was just going to have to call in sick and spend all night figuring it out.
Then I spotted the @
Bimpliboos, through the library window, out on the grass. They were in a circle playing one of their duck duck goose games like they do when nobody wants to play with them. I had an idea.
Turns out the @
Bimpliboos are fascinated with emojis. There's something about their round, pliable, somewhat amorphous shapes that made me think they'd like them. At first I read to them outloud, but I ended up just laying the book on the grass as they bounded over each other and piled on, trying to absorb the data, different emoji faces and forms passing over their little shape-shifting rubbery bodies. Soon they began to form rows and combinations, spinning and flittering like the symbols on a slot machine. I wasn't sure what they were saying, but it looked like something.
So I wrestled the book back from them and ran to class--the @
Bimpliboos following close behind, leaping onto my head and shoulders trying to get at the book--and I burst through the door just as Professor Branigan was about to ask for a volunteer.
"Me! I'll go!"
And I slammed my book down on the little podium and the @
Bimpliboos started up again.
It didn't really seem to go anywhere, just the @
Bimpliboos frantically passing through various emoji forms and combos, and after about 10 minutes I walked up to the podium, grabbed the book, and flung it out the window. A small herd of @
Bimpliboos chased after it.
The whole class cheered. I hope that means I get an A.
Bimpliboo - 11/21/2017 4:42pmEconomics for a #Lit*fire emoji**fire emoji**one hundred emoji*World!! is guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuud.
We are learning soooooooooooooo a lot!!!!!!!
Thank you SCHOOL
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