Design or Dictator Chic?
Bruce, with his new beard is in good company. Btw, do you know Ahmadinejad has his own blog (click on English) where he even wishes us Merry Christmas in the name of Allah? I would vote for him....
Last Few Weeks
I have been strangely silent the last few weeks. Short update:
1. Half-marathon in Moab. Carried 30 extra junks in my trunks.
2. Is anyone missing a comb? Or a rake? Why did you stick it in my shoulder?
3. Loyal reader Kent requested surgery pics.
(Not pictured): Staying in bed for 48 hours straight with a bottle of Vicodin and a bottle of Ambien. Surprisingly, not the first weekend that has happened.
1. Half-marathon in Moab. Carried 30 extra junks in my trunks.
2. Is anyone missing a comb? Or a rake? Why did you stick it in my shoulder?
3. Loyal reader Kent requested surgery pics.
(Not pictured): Staying in bed for 48 hours straight with a bottle of Vicodin and a bottle of Ambien. Surprisingly, not the first weekend that has happened.
Half the Optimism, Twice the Cynicism, Guaranteed Image or Double Your Garbage Back
That is the extended version of my life motto. Consider the following:
Half the Optimism:
(RED) Is it charity? Is it business? Is it blog fodder? Yes it makes money, yes it sucks than it has to leech off something as bad as Gap, and yes there is most likely a guy at (RED) paying himself a $500K salary out of it.
Twice the Cynicism:
Follow the money for carbon offsets and you will see that Al Gore's carbon-neutral lifestyle means he has invested at least $3MM in a hedgefund whose only restriction is that sustainability informs their investment decisions. Screw it people, just invest with Satan.
Guaranteed Image or Double Your Garbage Back:
Substitute "service" for "image" and that is the sign I see everyday on the way to work at "Al's Roll-offs." Al drives a garbage truck. And probably not a Prius. However, considering the total resource consumed per mile over the lifetime of a vehicle, if he put bio-diesel in his truck, it would probably be a push.
True to form, "I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope." William Walsh.
Also, this entire post is essentially copied from others' posts. However, plagiarism is the highest form of laziness--so naturally I am right there.
Half the Optimism:
(RED) Is it charity? Is it business? Is it blog fodder? Yes it makes money, yes it sucks than it has to leech off something as bad as Gap, and yes there is most likely a guy at (RED) paying himself a $500K salary out of it.
Twice the Cynicism:
Follow the money for carbon offsets and you will see that Al Gore's carbon-neutral lifestyle means he has invested at least $3MM in a hedgefund whose only restriction is that sustainability informs their investment decisions. Screw it people, just invest with Satan.
Guaranteed Image or Double Your Garbage Back:
Substitute "service" for "image" and that is the sign I see everyday on the way to work at "Al's Roll-offs." Al drives a garbage truck. And probably not a Prius. However, considering the total resource consumed per mile over the lifetime of a vehicle, if he put bio-diesel in his truck, it would probably be a push.
True to form, "I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope." William Walsh.
Also, this entire post is essentially copied from others' posts. However, plagiarism is the highest form of laziness--so naturally I am right there.
PrtSc
I am casting about searching for new ways of describing my inner world due to the inadequacy of language to convey how dramatic work is today. To back-up, I am a consumption-based music fan. That is to say, I buy new music, listen to it for two weeks incessantly, and then forget I even own it. However, when I can't find anything good to buy, I delve back into my collection and find something new.This morning I rediscovered Hans. No not the college friend. Not the SNL skit. Not my boss. Hans Zimmer--composer of hyper-dramatic movie scores.
The point this morning where I was wishing for my internal PrtSc (Print Screen, a key on your keyboard that captures whatever is on the screen as a picture) came as a score from Gladiator came on. I found myself listening to the main battle score while editing an Excel model. Auditing formulas to crashing cymbals, changing font colors to a chorusing brass section, calculating NPV to deep resounding bass all building to fantastic crescendo of sending off the model against a background of charging rhythms and invigorating military sounds.
For a moment I slipped into the trope. I am a warrior, a computer warrior, a consulting Centurion in the modern Praetorian Guard. Rome dominated the known world through military might, America dominates by economic hegemony. Like Maximus, I fight the barbarian tribes (of cost overruns and organization inefficiency). Like I said, it has been a very dramatic morning….
I Hate Apple, But Slightly Less Now
This weekend I embarked upon a 9-mile kayaking trip. I wimped out and beached myself halfway--a combination of a bad shoulder (which, btw, is going to get cut up on the 21st) and seasickness. I did manage to see whales up close (10 yards away from my kayak) and a sea turtle (he was a bit too friendly, so Kerry gave him a tap to tell him humans love turtle soup). Anyway, I went in at Sandy Beach and took a nap while waiting for Kerry to bring the truck around. But in landing, my kayak my got swamped.
Normally, I hate Apple because they continually clamp down their DRM. However, in beaching my kayak I completely swamped my Ipod Shuffle (we're talking floating in water in my bag). Shake it out, clean off the sand, plug it in and keep going. Completely unexpected....
Normally, I hate Apple because they continually clamp down their DRM. However, in beaching my kayak I completely swamped my Ipod Shuffle (we're talking floating in water in my bag). Shake it out, clean off the sand, plug it in and keep going. Completely unexpected....
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