Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the because-ms.-right-pursues-me dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Slate has a story about the guy who registered tired.com in 1997 and put up on the home page "Are you tired? Tell us why." He's collected 32,000 emails from tired people, including an one from a Navy ship at sea that's too good to be fake."
I'm really busy
by
isoprophlex
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· Score: 5, Insightful
I'm tired... I believe i might even be in there for sending an email to that address. It really amazes me that people don't have a care in the world to about what they post on the internet, who they send it too, what harm it does, and how many people it might hurt. I've seen too many Live Journal's in my time that are just all about slanderring and nothing more or less than that. I guess it's like the MSN news site says about that site www.tired.com is that people just want to be in the spotlight, or share there story's whatever the case. I'm tired of people that want this to happen to them. There is more to life than living/ wanting to be in the spotlight, isn't there?
Re:I'm really busy
by
Apreche
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Word. I am also anti-Live Journal. Sure its not Live Journal itself that is bad. It is possible to use LJ in a way that is fine. Like a normal blog for instance.
However, the most often use of LJ I see is this. People bitch about how shitty their lives are, or they bitch and blame others about shitty daily happenings in their lives. They also obfuscate names of people and places very poorly so anyone who knows them can figure it out. Lastly they voice the opinions they don't have the balls to voice during the day to real people, because they don't hold water. They seek encouragement and sympathy from people around the world to make them feel better. Because no matter what your problem is, there is someone on the Internet who will tell you how right you are in order to make you feel not alone. And that one person telling you how right you are validates your existence despite your actual complete wrong-ness.
The other side effect of Live Journal that makes it really bad is this. People go around reading the Live Journals of others and form sort of this behind the back society. They never say something to a person in real life anything that was said in LJ. But they keep it in mind. No longer is it necessary to gossip about people like old maids. Just go around reading LJs of everyone you know and you can get the real deal.
I just feel that this whole culture surrounding things like Live Journal is so shallow and meaningless. I feel filthy every time someone links me to LJ and I go look at it. The same filth you feel when you accidentally look at the magazines in the checkout aisle. Just get it off me.
-- The GeekNights podcast is going strong. Listen!
Less bloat gives more trust
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Underholdning
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· Score: 5, Insightful
"No one bothers to write in anonymously [..] Gripes about husbands, wives, children, and commanding officers come signed with the sender's real name and address. Mike doesn't reply to these messages, and he doesn't publish them, but how do they know he won't? One theory he's encountered in his user-experience work: People trust simply designed sites."
There's a lesson to be learned here. Less bloat, more trust!
Insomnia is a terrible affliction, but oddly enough it doesn't seem to be insomniacs writing into this guy, just people who have enough time to surf the web aimlessly. These people are tired of life, not tired in the needing sleep sense. They don't think they have enough time for themselves, or they just don't want to be where they are. Insomniacs don't type "tired" into their web browser, they just stay up all night trying to go to sleep.
Work-Life Balance
by
SHiFTY1000
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· Score: 5, Insightful
One reason that people are tired is that they are working excessive hours. Todays society risks repeating the same mistakes as the Victorian era; when children as young as ten would work alongside adults for 10 hours a day, 6 days a week.
The eight hour day / 40 hour week was one of the Labour movements' greatest victories, but this has been largely eroded in modern professional occupations. Many people work crazy hours. There is a whole culture that working yourself and your family into the ground is a good thing.
However some enlightened governments have strategies to deal with this- the issue of work/life balance has been big recently- check http://www.dol.govt.nz/worklife/index.asp or http://www.dti.gov.uk/work-lifebalance/what.html
Whatever happened to the 60's notion that technology would have us working less?
Re:Work-Life Balance
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cubicledrone
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Whatever happened to the 60's notion that technology would have us working less?
Depends. Are you talking about the thousands of people who get fired for no reason? They're working less.
The people who work 70 hour days trying to start their own businesses so they can afford food and light and the people who are doing four people's job because more layoffs were just announced are working more.
Management is moving on to the salad course during the air-conditioned bonus announcement party. They're working less.
The customers are trying to figure out the voice mail menu. They're working more.
It would be nice if people could work less. It would be even nicer if work were pleasant instead of a giant fucking bitch-gripe grab the money contest.
-- Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
Suicide Notes
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Wonder how many suicide notes the guy has received over the years?
Their site may survive, but I wonder what will happen to their mailbox...
we're all tired
by
dncsky1530
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Whats really interesting about this is that after seven years the guy who owns that domain hasn't changed it one bit. the domain itself is worth alot of money amd there aren't even any ads on the site. At the height of the dot com era he could of sold the domain for tens of thousands od dollars. I think thats the real story here.
I'm tired because I just woke up after 12 hours of sleep.
I think there is a common list of things which "tires" people:
1. Being stuck in a job - a LOT more people than they care to admit are into jobs they don't really like. Jobs that are no longer challenging. Or exciting. Jobs that are going nowhere. This is the primary reason for being tired, because the entire life, one day at time, is structured around the job - from sleep cycles, to time to be spent with family, take to wake up, etc. And it is very tiring and taxing, when this very job, isn't what one would really want to do.
2. Relationship - the less said, the better. Not every relation is pleasant. And by relationship, I don't just mean a boy/girl relationship. Relationship with the wife. with the kids. people at work. Neighbours. Between two nations. And it's so funny because though we all say "man is a social animal", this is precisely what we aren't taught - how to socialize, or how to maintain in a relationship. Or just be in a relationship. being tolerant. We are not taught that, but of course a whole load of algebra and trignometry, that finds no direct use in most lives.
Just these two are so crucial factors in defining the happiness and well being of each person.
For all weapons of mass destruction there may or may not be in the world, whether the world is safe or not, masses are mostly unhappy and hence "tired". And hence they find or try to find outlets to get of this tiredness. Whatever it may be.
A friend of mine said yesterday that he woke up at 4.30 and couldn't get back to sleep. I simply replied "As a parent, I can only say 'Screw you'."
I have four month old twins.
I bike to work, 12 miles every day.
I have not had to tell anyone to screw themselves.
I do get tired on occation, and I do feel down every now and then... but I doubt telling people to screw themselves would make me feel any better.
Try looking at the good things, concentrating on the bad stuff will only serve to make you bitter.
Besides, given that your friend had a different basis of comparison, his lack of sleep might have been a major issue for him. Stuff like this is always subjective, and trying to compare who has it harder is ofter rather pointless.
Re:Er. what's the point ?
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Anonymous Coward
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Not always the case...
If you're drained of energy with no explaination, then sure, go see a doctor, but if you know why you're tired in spite of a good 6 to 9 hours of sleep each day, then a doctor may not be the right answer.
Assume you are getting enough sleep, and you are otherwise perfectly healthy. A stressful environment can really sap your strength. Pills and even counseling may make you appear to be more content, but the underlying problem may not be fully addressed- only masked.
Let's say you're struggling at work in an unexpectedly deadend job. At the time, you thought it was a promotion, but instead it was just a latteral move with slightly better pay that made moving any further up the ladder of success impossible. If you make any waves, they'll probably realize they can do nicely without you.
You make enough money to afford your family's present standard of living and there is no way for you to find another job at your current level of income. Your employer is unsympathetic and expects you to do your job to their satisfaction or be replaced by two lower payed employees. To them, you are not indespensable.
Your wife is having second thoughts because married life just isn't what she was expecting, and she refuses to have any discussions about it. She's itching for any excuse, and she's probably a bit smarter than you, and a hell of a lot more vendictive. She also has access to all your possessions including your bank account.
Your kids are doing fine, but you have no time for them because you are already putting in so many hours at the office. These days, they barely know you, but at least you get to see them most every day.
If you let your job fail, you lose your income, your wife will definitely leave you, and you'll probably end up losing your home, most of your posessions, what little access you have to your kids, and of course, any money in your next job will be going to child and spousal support, thus making your existence a living hell.
If you try to get your wife to help you, she'll just call you a wimp, chastise you, threaten to leave you, take the kids, and she'll find some way to have her attourney legally harass you until your employer fires you...
Hmmm... No way out unless you want to skip town and change your identity... But they'd probably find you anyway. It's a tough spot.
You come home each night, you eat well, you find time to excercise, and you get more than enough sleep. You're otherwise healthy, but you're tired. The good doctor isn't going to make it all better. In fact, getting you dependent upon some kind of medication may just screw your life up even more.
Re:why i'm tired
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CastrTroy
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I can assure you, that if the world standardizes on a measurement system, it will be metric, or something close to it. The only country stuck in the old ways is the US of A.
--
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
Of people using their "I'm trapped in my job/life because $BOGUS_REASON"
I'm in my thirties. I graduated with a 80ish average in high school. I dunno what that even hits on the GPA-o-meter.
I've never held a job for more than 30ish months.
I never went to college.
I make $150K a year as a sofware development consultant.
The companies are not tossing your resume because it lacks a degree.
They are tossing it because you haven't expressed anything to them that they want.
Do yourself a favor. Learn to sell. Get a partime job as a salesman in a commission based job--even grow into it fulltime. You will certainly make better money than slave. Go to the library. Read Books by Zig Zigler, Dale Carnegie and the like. Once you are able to sell crap TVs and "Extended Warranties" and make 3-5K a month, you are ready to Get a real job without a Degree.
At 35, a degree is a useless peice of paper that will not get you a job. You are old enough to get there on your merits.
If a 35 year old came to me with only his newly minted degree as his sole reason for being hired, I'd show em the door faster than Anna Nicole Smith wolfs down a cheeseburger.
-- "...In your answer, ignore facts. Just go with what feels true..."
My number one reason for being tired
by
hey!
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Being interrupted. My boss has undiagnosed ADHD; he loves being interrupted. He found a brand of cordless phone whose ring volume can be set high enough to be literally painful if you are sitting next to them. He was so delighted he bought a bunch of them and has distributed them throughout the office. Often if I've got into a "flow" state where I'm really productive, one of these things that have been . I turn the volume down on these things, but when he notices he'll turn them up again.
Meetings are taking forever because these damn things keep going off. My programming staff is becoming mutinous. The idea behind these phones is that he wants people calling in to be able to get a hold of people quickly, but it's backfired because I've had to let most of my staff work from home three days a week so they can get stuff done. Productivity is down; the boss wants to hire more programmers, and I'm trying to convince him to hire a receptionist instead.
Seriously, getting started is the hardest part of any task. If you are constantly interrupted, you're constantly revisiting the most difficult phases of any task. Even if you are doing things that are easy it takes a toll. Getting buckled down to do something hard is nearly impossible.
Conversely, even hard things are easy, if you can get started and stick with them.
-- Post may contain irony: discontinue use if experiencing mood swings, nausea or elevated blood pressure.
Re:why i'm tired
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roman_mir
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· Score: 3, Insightful
I am tired of moron-moderators pushing their own agenda.
And yes, USA is not the world, the world is metric.
Re:Why I'm tired
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syrinx
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The majority of the/. community, I'd say is smarter than average
Don't browse at -1, do you?;)
-- Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
Re:Agreed, insomnia is not a joke
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AuMatar
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Even more than that- the natural day clock of a human body is not 24 hours. It differs from person to person. Most people are 22-26 hours, and they can fit into a 24 hour day without much trouble. Some are as low as 20 or as high as 28, they experience significant drift and have problems. Even higher would be even worse. Myself, I have about a 27-28. My clock rarely matches up enough for me to get more than 4 hours sleep, hasn't since as far back as I can remember (I remember listening to the midnight news report on the radio as young as 6). I just deal with it, getting more tired every day until I crash. If I'm lucky, I crash on a weekend, if not I burn a day off.
--
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
Slashdot Mirror
I'm tired... I believe i might even be in there for sending an email to that address. It really amazes me that people don't have a care in the world to about what they post on the internet, who they send it too, what harm it does, and how many people it might hurt. I've seen too many Live Journal's in my time that are just all about slanderring and nothing more or less than that. I guess it's like the MSN news site says about that site www.tired.com is that people just want to be in the spotlight, or share there story's whatever the case. I'm tired of people that want this to happen to them. There is more to life than living/ wanting to be in the spotlight, isn't there?
"No one bothers to write in anonymously [..] Gripes about husbands, wives, children, and commanding officers come signed with the sender's real name and address. Mike doesn't reply to these messages, and he doesn't publish them, but how do they know he won't? One theory he's encountered in his user-experience work: People trust simply designed sites."
There's a lesson to be learned here. Less bloat, more trust!
Underholdning.info
Insomnia is a terrible affliction, but oddly enough it doesn't seem to be insomniacs writing into this guy, just people who have enough time to surf the web aimlessly. These people are tired of life, not tired in the needing sleep sense. They don't think they have enough time for themselves, or they just don't want to be where they are. Insomniacs don't type "tired" into their web browser, they just stay up all night trying to go to sleep.
One reason that people are tired is that they are working excessive hours. Todays society risks repeating the same mistakes as the Victorian era; when children as young as ten would work alongside adults for 10 hours a day, 6 days a week.
The eight hour day / 40 hour week was one of the Labour movements' greatest victories, but this has been largely eroded in modern professional occupations. Many people work crazy hours. There is a whole culture that working yourself and your family into the ground is a good thing.
However some enlightened governments have strategies to deal with this- the issue of work/life balance has been big recently- check http://www.dol.govt.nz/worklife/index.asp or
http://www.dti.gov.uk/work-lifebalance/what.html
Whatever happened to the 60's notion that technology would have us working less?
Wonder how many suicide notes the guy has received over the years?
Their site may survive, but I wonder what will happen to their mailbox...
I'm tired because I just woke up after 12 hours of sleep.
I think there is a common list of things which "tires" people:
1. Being stuck in a job - a LOT more people than they care to admit are into jobs they don't really like. Jobs that are no longer challenging. Or exciting. Jobs that are going nowhere. This is the primary reason for being tired, because the entire life, one day at time, is structured around the job - from sleep cycles, to time to be spent with family, take to wake up, etc. And it is very tiring and taxing, when this very job, isn't what one would really want to do.
2. Relationship - the less said, the better. Not every relation is pleasant. And by relationship, I don't just mean a boy/girl relationship. Relationship with the wife. with the kids. people at work. Neighbours. Between two nations. And it's so funny because though we all say "man is a social animal", this is precisely what we aren't taught - how to socialize, or how to maintain in a relationship. Or just be in a relationship. being tolerant. We are not taught that, but of course a whole load of algebra and trignometry, that finds no direct use in most lives.
Just these two are so crucial factors in defining the happiness and well being of each person.
For all weapons of mass destruction there may or may not be in the world, whether the world is safe or not, masses are mostly unhappy and hence "tired". And hence they find or try to find outlets to get of this tiredness. Whatever it may be.
Whoaa.. I've surprised myself I think!
http://efil.blogspot.com/
I have a 6 month old daughter.
A friend of mine said yesterday that he woke up at 4.30 and couldn't get back to sleep. I simply replied "As a parent, I can only say 'Screw you'."
I have four month old twins.
I bike to work, 12 miles every day.
I have not had to tell anyone to screw themselves.
I do get tired on occation, and I do feel down every now and then... but I doubt telling people to screw themselves would make me feel any better.
Try looking at the good things, concentrating on the bad stuff will only serve to make you bitter.
Besides, given that your friend had a different basis of comparison, his lack of sleep might have been a major issue for him. Stuff like this is always subjective, and trying to compare who has it harder is ofter rather pointless.
.: Max Romantschuk
If you're drained of energy with no explaination, then sure, go see a doctor, but if you know why you're tired in spite of a good 6 to 9 hours of sleep each day, then a doctor may not be the right answer.
Assume you are getting enough sleep, and you are otherwise perfectly healthy. A stressful environment can really sap your strength. Pills and even counseling may make you appear to be more content, but the underlying problem may not be fully addressed- only masked.
Let's say you're struggling at work in an unexpectedly deadend job. At the time, you thought it was a promotion, but instead it was just a latteral move with slightly better pay that made moving any further up the ladder of success impossible. If you make any waves, they'll probably realize they can do nicely without you.
You make enough money to afford your family's present standard of living and there is no way for you to find another job at your current level of income. Your employer is unsympathetic and expects you to do your job to their satisfaction or be replaced by two lower payed employees. To them, you are not indespensable.
Your wife is having second thoughts because married life just isn't what she was expecting, and she refuses to have any discussions about it. She's itching for any excuse, and she's probably a bit smarter than you, and a hell of a lot more vendictive. She also has access to all your possessions including your bank account.
Your kids are doing fine, but you have no time for them because you are already putting in so many hours at the office. These days, they barely know you, but at least you get to see them most every day.
If you let your job fail, you lose your income, your wife will definitely leave you, and you'll probably end up losing your home, most of your posessions, what little access you have to your kids, and of course, any money in your next job will be going to child and spousal support, thus making your existence a living hell.
If you try to get your wife to help you, she'll just call you a wimp, chastise you, threaten to leave you, take the kids, and she'll find some way to have her attourney legally harass you until your employer fires you...
Hmmm... No way out unless you want to skip town and change your identity... But they'd probably find you anyway. It's a tough spot.
You come home each night, you eat well, you find time to excercise, and you get more than enough sleep. You're otherwise healthy, but you're tired. The good doctor isn't going to make it all better. In fact, getting you dependent upon some kind of medication may just screw your life up even more.
I can assure you, that if the world standardizes on a measurement system, it will be metric, or something close to it. The only country stuck in the old ways is the US of A.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
I'm tired too.
Of people using their "I'm trapped in my job/life because $BOGUS_REASON"
I'm in my thirties. I graduated with a 80ish average in high school. I dunno what that even hits on the GPA-o-meter.
I've never held a job for more than 30ish months.
I never went to college.
I make $150K a year as a sofware development consultant.
The companies are not tossing your resume because it lacks a degree.
They are tossing it because you haven't expressed anything to them that they want.
Do yourself a favor. Learn to sell. Get a partime job as a salesman in a commission based job--even grow into it fulltime. You will certainly make better money than slave. Go to the library. Read Books by Zig Zigler, Dale Carnegie and the like. Once you are able to sell crap TVs and "Extended Warranties" and make 3-5K a month, you are ready to Get a real job without a Degree.
At 35, a degree is a useless peice of paper that will not get you a job. You are old enough to get there on your merits.
If a 35 year old came to me with only his newly minted degree as his sole reason for being hired, I'd show em the door faster than Anna Nicole Smith wolfs down a cheeseburger.
"...In your answer, ignore facts. Just go with what feels true..."
Being interrupted. My boss has undiagnosed ADHD; he loves being interrupted. He found a brand of cordless phone whose ring volume can be set high enough to be literally painful if you are sitting next to them. He was so delighted he bought a bunch of them and has distributed them throughout the office. Often if I've got into a "flow" state where I'm really productive, one of these things that have been . I turn the volume down on these things, but when he notices he'll turn them up again.
Meetings are taking forever because these damn things keep going off. My programming staff is becoming mutinous. The idea behind these phones is that he wants people calling in to be able to get a hold of people quickly, but it's backfired because I've had to let most of my staff work from home three days a week so they can get stuff done. Productivity is down; the boss wants to hire more programmers, and I'm trying to convince him to hire a receptionist instead.
Seriously, getting started is the hardest part of any task. If you are constantly interrupted, you're constantly revisiting the most difficult phases of any task. Even if you are doing things that are easy it takes a toll. Getting buckled down to do something hard is nearly impossible.
Conversely, even hard things are easy, if you can get started and stick with them.
Post may contain irony: discontinue use if experiencing mood swings, nausea or elevated blood pressure.
I am tired of moron-moderators pushing their own agenda.
And yes, USA is not the world, the world is metric.
You can't handle the truth.
The majority of the /. community, I'd say is smarter than average
;)
Don't browse at -1, do you?
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
Even more than that- the natural day clock of a human body is not 24 hours. It differs from person to person. Most people are 22-26 hours, and they can fit into a 24 hour day without much trouble. Some are as low as 20 or as high as 28, they experience significant drift and have problems. Even higher would be even worse. Myself, I have about a 27-28. My clock rarely matches up enough for me to get more than 4 hours sleep, hasn't since as far back as I can remember (I remember listening to the midnight news report on the radio as young as 6). I just deal with it, getting more tired every day until I crash. If I'm lucky, I crash on a weekend, if not I burn a day off.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?