Wayward Son

Infinite Energy

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:18:42 -0400

I swear we would have all the energy we could ever use if I could just figure out how someone can manage to talk ALL DAY.

Things of Value

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:21:39 -0400

As I grow older, I come to feel that respect is more valuable than money.

Will He Stick To It?

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:32:00 -0400

If you know me, now or in the past, you know I have a bad habit of taking up a “hobby of the week”, including spending ridiculous amounts of money on it and not sticking with it for very long.

Hopefully that is not the case here.

I have had 3 guitar lessons, have practiced nearly every day for at least 1/2 hour at a time (more like an hour usually) and am still enthusiastic about it a month into it.

My hands are getting stronger - I had to have my wedding ring increased a full size because my fingers are bulking up. I am exercising my grip, my forearms and wrists with a hand gyroscope, and getting my fingertip calluses built up.

Will I follow through on this “hobby of the week”? I damn sure intend to.

Guitar Zen

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:16:06 -0400

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In the Land of the Blind...

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:14:19 -0500

I am not outstanding.

I am merely competent.

But in a world of incompetence,

This makes me outstanding.

Full Circle

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:35:43 -0500

When I was in the Air Force about a million years ago, I bought a cheap acoustic guitar. I tried to play it… once, twice? It was too hard to push down the strings and it hurt my widdle hand. No one told me it was supposed to, and I couldn’t read about playing the guitar on the Internet…

I just bought another acoustic last night for the opposite reason. I wanted it to be hard to play, and I wanted it to hurt. Why? Because it would take 3 times as long to build up my hand using the electric. Wow.

Perhaps I'm Strange

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:11:20 -0500

I assume that when an elevator I am waiting on arrives that there are people inside waiting to get out, so I stand aside and wait the 2 seconds it takes to see. If there are, I let them get out first.
When rounding a corner in a hallway, I stay to the right rather than cutting the corner as there might be someone coming the other way.
When I attempt to enter or cross a left-to-right hallway, I pause a second, listen, and even look both ways so as to not run into anyone coming down the hall.

Upon observation of other people in the above situations, I’d have to say yes, I am strange.

Improve the World

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:10:58 -0500

People who do not flush in public restrooms should be shot, and their children sterilized.

Annoyance #2389

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:17:59 -0500

Stinky food cooking in the office microwave.

See Fred Shred

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:17:00 -0500

Well, not quite yet. I have purchased a low-end Fender electic guitar, and am taking lessons. So far, the most important part of playing guitar seems to be getting your fret hand stretched and exercised enough!

Well, of course...

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:20:48 -0400

Hindu officials persuaded the Indian government in September to withdraw a report on a construction project because it treated a prominent bridge as a natural stone formation instead of (as Hindus say) a bridge created by the god Ram and his army of monkeys. [BBC News, 9-14-07]

Definition - Jerk

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:49:28 -0400

Someone who has an office door, and won’t close it while having loud phone conversations.

techadox

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:47:23 -0400

techadox: My essays on everything from philosophy to artificial intelligence.

"In the midst of serious discourse in the Craneum, Diogenes realised no one was listening. So he..."

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 10:29:57 -0400

“In the midst of serious discourse in the Craneum, Diogenes realised no one was listening. So he instead began to whistle and dance about to attract attention. Immediately, people flocked round him. Diogenes stopped and said, “You idiots, you are not interested to stop and pay attention to wisdom, yet you rush up to observe a foolish display.””

- TEACHINGS OF DIOGENES

"Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak."

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:30:00 -0400

“Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.”

- Epictectus

"That (which) I don’t know, I don’t think I know."

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:55:23 -0400

“That (which) I don’t know, I don’t think I know.”

- Socrates

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to..."

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:02:44 -0400

“One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.”

- Bertrand Russell

"The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves..."

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:58:13 -0400

“The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.”

- Bertrand Russell

net2ftp - a web based FTP client

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:17:51 -0400

net2ftp - a web based FTP client: FTP from anywhere, regardless of firewall.

Battlestar Galactica - I guess it is good...

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:34:15 -0400

Battlestar Galactica - I guess it is good...:

Started watching it this past week-end. I avoided it for a while for various reasons, number one probably because it was so popular.

They actually make quite a number of nods and tributes to the original series, even coming up with a way to use the old Vipers.

But I think the best thing about the new series is that there is NO comic relief. None. Nada. In that respect, it truly has gone where no SF series has gone before.