August 31, 2004
More Quotes
E. B. White - "Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind."
Andre Gide - "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
Thomas A. Edison - "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
Galileo Galilei - "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
All from Quotes of the Day.
August 30, 2004
Sandstorm Here?
Odd thing yesterday in the parking lot is I heard the base to Sandstorm by Darude in their car. Not sure how I recognized the song before the car came close enough to hear the mids.
August 26, 2004
Astro Advice For Today
You will get into trouble no matter how hard you try to avoid it today. This is not the time to disagree or to take matters into your own hands.
Huh.... sounds like a good day to go home and watch the Women's Soccer final... USA v. Brazil. I can't avoid getting into trouble, so I might as well cause it. Wait, the second sentence cancels that out. The astrologers knew how I would react.... They are out to get me!
August 25, 2004
Various Quotes
Doug Larson - "Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties."
Robert A. Humphrey - "An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."
Chuck Reid - "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is."
Howard Aiken - "Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats."
August 24, 2004
Click... click... click...
I keep playing this over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
Phone Clip and Books Make Me Happy?
Dreamt I found a pair of pants hidden in the dryer. Attached to the pocket was my cell phone clip. I was elated! Cannot believe the sense of joy over something so seemingly trivial. Later, I was sitting on my bed, alphabetizing the books on my shelf by author's name for just the scfi/fi fantasy novels. All of the old ones were in there so, of course, I was randoming looking through to the best parts of each. For instance, I found the best scenes in the A Song of Fire and Ice, Icewind Dale Trilogy, DragonLance Chronicles, and Robotech.
How odd?
August 20, 2004
Magic Fingers
Apparently I have magic fingers. Enough said, right?
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Okay! You have a dirty mind! Just by touching a computer it works right. At least, that is what she said.... Uh, huh... 
August 19, 2004
Sometimes We Get What We Pay For
Sometimes more expensive means better quality. I know, I know. That is a horrendous thing to say. When a company spends millions on improving their products and transfers that cost to the consumer, a company that took shortcuts (and transfers those savings to consumers) may miss those things that made the more expensive.
Consumers are so demanding. (I know because I play one on TV.)
It just makes it amazing that some companies have resounding success where others barely eek out an existence and others simply fall apart.
August 17, 2004
What?
Got a call last night about 1 AM. Apparently I slept through my cell ringing. Anyway, I did get up to knocking on my door. "C from work." Did not even provide a thank you.
Me: "Hello?" C: "It is not work related, so don't worry. P just passed away." Me: "Huh? What the f---?" C: "Yeah, I was just at the hospital with A. Thought you would want to know." Me: "Yeah, thank you for calling. I would want to know."
Almost 11 hours later, in shock still.
August 14, 2004
Applied For a Job
There are days where I think that I would gladly quit my job and not look back with regret. Of course, minutes (sometimes hours later) I am back into a better mood and would not really quit.
Earlier in the week, a friend passed along a link to a job very similar to what I do. Without a second thought, I applied for it. Was I upset like in the above senario? Not at all. It just.... I don't know.... felt like an opportunity I should not pass up. There is a tug at my collar letting me know that I need to prepare myself. For what? Dunno. I do know that I have felt this tug before.
The first time, was a conversation with some librarians where I ended up getting my first job. The second time, was an opportunity to design a web site for a department at the university where I was going to school. That ultimately led to getting my current job. When I saw this, the same sense of "you have to pursue this" crept in to play. Of course, I have had similar feelings in the past that did not pan out into something. For instance, I drove 4 hours to an interview for a job I ultimately did not get. I applied to 20 something jobs in the first year of my job now because I didn't think the funding would continue. Did not get so much as a request for a phone interview from any of them.
Will I get this job I applied to this week? Dunno. Dunno if I will get so much as a call or an interview. I just know that opportunity looked me in the face so I had to look back.
August 06, 2004
Dreams In My Face
Interesting. Lay-C has been talking about her dreams. Charla talked about her dreaming involving her upcoming wedding. A recent article in Newsweek talked about dreams. Jay Mohr on Last Comic Standing started talking about them at the start of the show.
Every time the data streams start to gush, I wonder.... Is it my selective tuning? Is it some higher power trying to beat me over the head to pay attention. Not really the metaphysical type, so I fall into the former.
The DreamBank has an interesting response to the Newsweek article on dreams.
Dreaming is, I think, a side-affect of increased blood-flow in the brain during sleep. The brain triggers the memory neurons without touching the logic inhibitors we usually use. The emotional centers of the brain are hyperactive as well. Probably more so than at any other point in our lives we are so completely truthful about who we are.
Maybe that is why I want to forget my dreams?
August 04, 2004
"It's not true that life
"It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over." -- Edna St. Vincent Millay (source)
Tech Quota
"Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand." -- Putt's Law (source)
Doubt Quote
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education." -- Wilson Mizner (source)
Cannot Possibly Go Wrong Quote
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." -- Douglas Adams (source)
August 01, 2004
Congrats Pattie and Andy
Best wishes to Pattie and Andy!
Other wedding photos
