As I age I seem to be getting more idealistic rather than jaded.
Life should be easier Things should be simpler Stress should be less Time should be more Quality should be up Cost should be lowappropriate Depression should be nil There should be hills, and trees, and birds, and nature, and beauty There should be plenty for all There should be less excess, less waste Injustices should be reversed with haste There should be efficiency And consideration for you and me Idealistic, yes.
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A few weeks ago I had a dream that I was being let go from my job because I wasn’t a fast enough coder. Also had a dream that my rental house was twice as big and had a secret upstairs level where my landlords and their kids were playing/living occasionally.
I think I was most disappointed that the first one wasn’t true. There’s nothing quite like the panic that unemployment brings.
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A few weeks ago I had a dream that I was being let go from my job because I wasn’t a fast enough coder. Also had a dream that my rental house was twice as big and had a secret upstairs level where my landlords and their kids were playing/living occasionally.
I think I was most disappointed that the first one wasn’t true. There’s nothing quite like the panic that unemployment brings.
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A Toyota ad showed while I was listening to music through Pandora. It said, “Good news, you have above average taste in music”, and then went on to tell good news about Toyota deals.
I really hope no vain fools clicked the ad.
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(I accidentally deleted this post. Here’s a reconstruction)
Wednesdays are magical. Here’s my schedule:
Rise at 6:30 or 7 Check my “sites” and email Run for 15 minutes or exercise in some capacity Shower and eat Hop on my bike and head out the door to arrive at a downtown coffee shop just before 9am Begin working for my clients Lunch with my woman at 11:30 Continue working until 2 or 3pm Then … whatever!
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I think Radiohead’s Kid A album was originally titled “Kinda”. Then they realized some would try to apply the title to the contents of the CD, so they tried a little harder to avoid making too obvious their lack of musical effort. I still think “kinda” is a good answer to a question about how worthwhile Radiohead albums are to buy.
Remember: You can’t sing from your heart with your eyes open.
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The shuttle Discovery landed successfully today. While watching it on local news and CNN I couldn’t help feeling proud to be part of a species that’s capable of such things. One day I hope to contribute something towards that effort even though it’s too late for me to become an astronaut. That job wouldn’t fit well with where I am in life, but I’d love be involved somehow. Maybe it’ll be through embedded software development for robotic devices … who knows.
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“I was just doing my job” is a cop-out, used by weak and worthless individuals. Side-stepping blame under the guise of duty/dedication is disgusting. The guards that dealt with Martin Lee Anderson were adhering to their training, but doing so to the point that one ignores the chance to second-guess the appropriateness of an action is a frightening thing. The world is not so black-and-white. Full dedication to duty should never have become an honorable trait.
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