OceansOfThought @ June 10, 2008 # Comments Off on On Learning Like a Movie Star
I will prepare and some day my chance will come. – Abraham Lincoln I don’t normally care about movie stars, but i do envy some, action stars really. I envy them because of the skills they learn; actually skills they are PAID to learn. That to me is the definition of the dream job. A […]
OceansOfThought @ June 9, 2008 # 3 Comments
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”-Abraham Lincoln We’ve alluded to the fact, in these editorials, it seems humans like settling for second best. We claim we want a better mouse trap but really we really don’t want a better mouse trap, we want to not see […]
OceansOfThought @ June 6, 2008 # Comments Off on On Being Location Aware
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. -Abraham Lincoln There are any number of stories about people misusing technology, but the one I like the most is the missuses of GPS and being location aware. You can Google the misuse yourself, but you’ll find people driving off bridges, into glass cases and all manner […]
OceansOfThought @ June 5, 2008 # Comments Off on On Watching the World Watching US
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth – Abraham Lincoln In one of my shorter posts, I pointed out why we are still a superpower (we being America). Well, I’ll now add pictures (see below). Why did i chose to include pictures? it’s not really about […]
OceansOfThought @ June 3, 2008 # One Comment
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. – Abraham Lincoln Many of us have become drones in the great machine of our great Civilization, and like drones, we don’t have to know what’s going on, only that we are working to make the whole better than it’s parts. Thou, we are […]
OceansOfThought @ June 2, 2008 # One Comment
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -Abraham Lincoln A recent article in the times talked about “the less rich.” Those who net worth changed from 20 to 8 million, or who have to live with one less zero on a 7 figure bank account. […]
OceansOfThought @ May 30, 2008 # One Comment
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -Abraham Lincoln. We here, on this planet, are really just friendly strangers. We exist in places: planes, elevators, and bars,- just to name a few- disembodied halves. In these places where we gather, lives are passed […]
OceansOfThought @ May 29, 2008 # 3 Comments
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.– Abraham Lincoln I’ve always asked a question to myself; who was the second person to try blowfish? I mean, after the first person fell dead convulsing, did the other person […]
OceansOfThought @ May 28, 2008 # Comments Off on On Fees, Fines, Vices and Tax
“The government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the government….” – Abraham Lincoln One of the problems with resolving crime and other problems is that crime pays; it pays the governments that try to control it, it pays the states and communities really really […]
OceansOfThought @ May 27, 2008 # One Comment
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.- Abraham Lincoln In life as in business, no matter what you tell someone, they won’t listen. In the end they have to come to their own realization. But what is that realization and where does it lie? In the physiological […]