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On Another Skill Falling to Technology

OceansOfThought @ April 30, 2008 # 3 Comments

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: ‘And this, too, shall pass away.’ -Abraham Lincoln Another skill of general society is falling to the […]

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On Parents and Future.

OceansOfThought @ April 28, 2008 # Comments Off on On Parents and Future.

May our children and our children’s children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country,-Abraham Lincoln On the best of days my parents are difficult. Amung people i know, there are those that depend on their parents, and often times get along with them. Amung others, there […]

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On Why You Really Hate Math and Economics

OceansOfThought @ April 23, 2008 # One Comment

“Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. […] The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing.” –Abraham Lincoln Economist are driven crazy by humans, and math doesn’t help. In a most amazing testament to the past strength […]

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On Race Relations, and the URL

OceansOfThought @ April 21, 2008 # 2 Comments

I shall try to correct errors where shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views. –Abraham Lincoln And now, race. You ever notice that when you run across something on the internet, it’s a buzz. You suddenly start to notice it everywhere, it […]

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On the Next Big Thing in Disruptive Technology aka Fighting the Curse of Babel

OceansOfThought @ April 15, 2008 # Comments Off on On the Next Big Thing in Disruptive Technology aka Fighting the Curse of Babel

“The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time.” -Abraham Lincoln We’ve decided to try a different tac, and to do one of […]

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On Overcomming the Reptilian Brain

OceansOfThought @ April 9, 2008 # Comments Off on On Overcomming the Reptilian Brain

“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”-Abraham Lincoln While reading the economist i ran across an article in which the reporter pointed out that how the differences in countries defined how he felt about a particular incident. In this case, it was an Ism. He arrived at […]

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On Words Left Unsaid

OceansOfThought @ April 3, 2008 # 2 Comments

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. -Abraham Lincoln. There is a moment in all our lives when we realized we’ve gone two far. The words are out, the email is sent, the dial tone hums in the air; the breathless gasp which lies in the air around […]

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On Being One of Two Boxes

OceansOfThought @ April 2, 2008 # 2 Comments

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. -Abraham Lincoln Professionals, when they are in their element, can be curt and impatient, which is interesting, because when they go to see other professionals, say a doctor or a […]

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On The Digital Web and Friendships

OceansOfThought @ March 20, 2008 # One Comment

I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. – Abraham Lincoln There are times in your life that your friends will be mad at you and there is nothing you can do about it. Further more, as frustrating as that is, they won’t respond to tell […]

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On Why The Manager is Really the Problem

OceansOfThought @ March 19, 2008 # Comments Off on On Why The Manager is Really the Problem

 I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what’s said against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make […]

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