Being Cam 2 Location?

This morning, as I was leaving to meet with an accountant (who will rescue me from my ignorance in All Things Business), Sia started yelling. Tom and she have been reviewing and archiving the captures on the Being & Nothingness Cams, and Sia had an "Ah-ha" moment. Looking again at one of the February 11 Being Cam 2 captures (re-posted here) she said she knew where the camera will be found.

"It's a shark! Yes! It's in the Mariana Trench! We’re the water planet! The oceans are Life!"

Two things: Sia's not strong on biology or geography, and, when she got excited about having The Answer, she spilled coffee onto her keyboard. The next two things: Sia got gloomy and went out for a smoke when she found out that her conclusion was patently absurd. And she's going to have to own up to Dirk that she violated computer protocol.

Tom and Sia had launched into an argument about the ocean, being a victim of a poor general education, who watched the Discovery Channel more, crummy reasoning, and not following rules, and wound up figuring out where to have lunch. Arguing is the core of their lives, but this is one of the few times that I've heard reference to their personal lives. I had pegged Sia as someone who proudly wouldn't own a TV. I wonder if she watches "The Dog Whisperer."

Dirk has his own IT business and he’s here 10 hours a week--about 7 hours too many. But he’s often an injection of normal, plus, if all he has to do is look at your monitor, he doesn’t kick you out of your chair. He’s patient if you don’t understand something and he’ll search for metaphors to help you. I told Dirk that on the tech stuff that he's the one to make it work, like I’m Tim Gunn. Only not gay. Or well dressed. He says silly things out loud. When he gets fed up with the theoretical talk he takes off to get snacks at the Stop ‘n’ Rob.

Dirk is honest--and I’m talking honest-honest. He doesn’t understand why people fib to protect themselves, or because they're scared, or not to hurt others. He doesn’t respect the value of lying, which is unnerving and puts him at odds with, well, everyone. Heaven knows what a girlfriend would think. Sia says that he’s a good example of Jeremy Bentham’s position that “self-regarding interest is predominant over social interest.” I don't know what that means, but it makes up for her thinking that the ocean is the Mariana Trench or that prairie dogs and groundhogs are the same thing.

In any case, I hope Sia remembers this lying thing, because if she doesn’t own up to her mistakes as soon as Dirk comes in she isn’t getting help from him for the next couple of days. And, no, that’s not a good trait for a self-employed guy.