Student: Why must I sleep?
Master: So that you may reflect upon your life and make room for someone else to experience theirs.
Wednesday, August 11, 2004
A New Day!
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This Morning
Last night I wanted to spend some time with my depressed wife so we watched some television and chatted. I decided before returning to the computer a couple of hours of shuteye would do me good. 2:31am rolled around and I look looked at the clock but could not draw myself from the bed. 4:27am and I begged for "just a little more." At 5:12am I sat upright and was glad to be starting the day so early. It has finally happened! At 6am I snapped awake wondering why at 5:12 I had not actually gotten out of bed. At 6am I did rise, clean up the dog's pee. Apparently she ate the solid stuff or just didn't do it yet. Then I walked the dog and now I blog.
Today needs to have 4 intense processes happening at once with about 8 lessors processes interspersed. It is an impossible amount to achieve yet it must be done!
Somethings on the list:
* 2 client websites that need to have major progress made.
* 1 client needing a follow-up email regarding his website
* Write marketing piece
* Follow-up marketing information sent to the people I spoke to on the phone yesterday.
* Update Monster, Flipdog, Dice, Hotjobs, Futurestep, and Headhunter.
* 1 personal/business website that needs updating
* more sales calls
* schedule followup meeting for possible web contract
* transfer of domains from paid server to free server
* update finances
* make phone calls to creditors, power company, phone company
* call insurance company
* signup at Protemp
* put Noah's speed-o-meter on his bike and fix his brakes (highest priority)
* help Cathy decide on Tommy's birthday party
I'm sure left out a whole bunch.
Amy is up too early.
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This Morning
Last night I wanted to spend some time with my depressed wife so we watched some television and chatted. I decided before returning to the computer a couple of hours of shuteye would do me good. 2:31am rolled around and I look looked at the clock but could not draw myself from the bed. 4:27am and I begged for "just a little more." At 5:12am I sat upright and was glad to be starting the day so early. It has finally happened! At 6am I snapped awake wondering why at 5:12 I had not actually gotten out of bed. At 6am I did rise, clean up the dog's pee. Apparently she ate the solid stuff or just didn't do it yet. Then I walked the dog and now I blog.
Today needs to have 4 intense processes happening at once with about 8 lessors processes interspersed. It is an impossible amount to achieve yet it must be done!
Somethings on the list:
* 2 client websites that need to have major progress made.
* 1 client needing a follow-up email regarding his website
* Write marketing piece
* Follow-up marketing information sent to the people I spoke to on the phone yesterday.
* Update Monster, Flipdog, Dice, Hotjobs, Futurestep, and Headhunter.
* 1 personal/business website that needs updating
* more sales calls
* schedule followup meeting for possible web contract
* transfer of domains from paid server to free server
* update finances
* make phone calls to creditors, power company, phone company
* call insurance company
* signup at Protemp
* put Noah's speed-o-meter on his bike and fix his brakes (highest priority)
* help Cathy decide on Tommy's birthday party
I'm sure left out a whole bunch.
Amy is up too early.
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Progress!
Cold calls to real estate companies begun. So far, it hasn't been the horrid experience I expected it to be!
Bank went negative on Friday while I sat on a $75 insurance check. Immediately incurred $5 (transfer fee from overdraft) + $12 (continuous overdraft fee for Sat and Sun) + $6 (continuous overdraft fee for yesterday) totaling $23 in fees so far.
No foreseeable income in the near future. The projects I have won't pay by Friday. Immediate expenses:
Power company $550 by Friday or they shut us off
Car insurance overdue $120 (in our state I think the penalty for driving without insurance is that you lose your license for a year...which just means we end up with a bunch of unlicensed and uninsured people driving around)
Telephone by Friday $140
Garbage service $90
One company threatening lawsuit to collect $600-1000
There are others but this is depressing. How does anyone ever get out from a situation like this? I know. I know. Get a job. Damn it's said that done!
This is obviously all my fault and all within my control but at same time it is so overwhelming and overpowering.
Back to coding.
No foreseeable income in the near future. The projects I have won't pay by Friday. Immediate expenses:
Power company $550 by Friday or they shut us off
Car insurance overdue $120 (in our state I think the penalty for driving without insurance is that you lose your license for a year...which just means we end up with a bunch of unlicensed and uninsured people driving around)
Telephone by Friday $140
Garbage service $90
One company threatening lawsuit to collect $600-1000
There are others but this is depressing. How does anyone ever get out from a situation like this? I know. I know. Get a job. Damn it's said that done!
This is obviously all my fault and all within my control but at same time it is so overwhelming and overpowering.
Back to coding.
Of Grasshoppers
Student: Why does everyone fight me?
Master: You have no plan. Who could possibly help you?
Master: You have no plan. Who could possibly help you?
From the President's mouth
Bush also said high taxes on the rich are a failed strategy because "the really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes anyway."
The original AP article. Political Wire's Quote of the Day which actually puts it in context.
A New Day!
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This Morning
I want cameras in my house!
Woke this morning at 6am and walked the dog. Of course she eventually got bored and started to yip so I brought her inside with intent to take her right back out. Instead I got to brewing my coffee and she made her a breakfast snack. Fortunately I stopped her before she chowed down too much. After I get a paycheck from somewhere I'm going to lease her for 3 days and she is going to remain by my side until she learns that stuff goes outside!
I had intended to have a snack with the wife and when she started to drift off I was going to work through the nite. Blast if I didn't fall asleep! At least I woke earlier than usual.
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This Morning
I want cameras in my house!
Woke this morning at 6am and walked the dog. Of course she eventually got bored and started to yip so I brought her inside with intent to take her right back out. Instead I got to brewing my coffee and she made her a breakfast snack. Fortunately I stopped her before she chowed down too much. After I get a paycheck from somewhere I'm going to lease her for 3 days and she is going to remain by my side until she learns that stuff goes outside!
I had intended to have a snack with the wife and when she started to drift off I was going to work through the nite. Blast if I didn't fall asleep! At least I woke earlier than usual.
Monday, August 09, 2004
From the mouths of babes
Amy, Molly and I go for a walk. We get to the end of the street and Amy walks up to a tree, covers her eyes with both hands, leans toward the tree, and counts to five.
Where does she learn this stuff?! (television and siblings)
Where does she learn this stuff?! (television and siblings)
Education
I suppose our schools could be worse: School's lessons full of errors
Lockyer said the curriculum consisted of a slim workbook riddled with errors, including:
- The United States has 53 states but the "flag has not yet been updated to reflect the addition of the last three states" -- Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico.
- World War II began in 1938 and ended in 1942.
- There are two houses of Congress -- the Senate and the House, and "one is for Democrats and the other is for the Republicans, respectively."
Presidential Outsourcing
OUTSOURCING JOBS REACHES NEW HEIGHTS
Congress today announced that the Office of President of the United States will be outsourced to overseas interests as of September 30th, the end of this fiscal year. The move is being made to save $400K a year in salary, a record $521 Billion in deficit expenditures and related overhead. "The cost savings will be quite significant" ...
"I am excited to serve in this position," Mr. Singh stated in an exclusive interview. "Working nights will let me keep my day job at the American Express call center. I always knew I could be President someday."
Well Spoken Bush
President does comedy and scores laughs
ok. Our news casters wear earpieces so that the director, producer et al can speak into their ear. Shouldn't our president have advisers speaking directly into his head? Perhaps just enough to say, "Ok George! Shutup!"
Of course I could see him holding his head nodding, noddling, say 'yes. ok. that's good' then addressing the crowd "my answer is...." Then saying something like, "No, all my thoughts are my own."
ok. Our news casters wear earpieces so that the director, producer et al can speak into their ear. Shouldn't our president have advisers speaking directly into his head? Perhaps just enough to say, "Ok George! Shutup!"
Of course I could see him holding his head nodding, noddling, say 'yes. ok. that's good' then addressing the crowd "my answer is...." Then saying something like, "No, all my thoughts are my own."
Progress!
Wahoo! I programmed and made go progress. More to come but I need to balance tasks. I've started putting information into FutureStep and need to continue. These things are time consuming. I am ready to make sales calls but its lunch time.
Sunday, August 08, 2004
A New Day!
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This Morning
This is planning day. It should be a day of rejuvenation and cleansing. Instead it will be a half day of horseback riding and then probably family social needs. It needs to be house cleaning, computer work for clients, office work, home repair, and gardening.
Let's start the day off with a PayPal donation link:
This Morning
This is planning day. It should be a day of rejuvenation and cleansing. Instead it will be a half day of horseback riding and then probably family social needs. It needs to be house cleaning, computer work for clients, office work, home repair, and gardening.
Saturday, August 07, 2004
Of Grasshoppers
Student: As I succeed something always knocks me back down.
Master: Perhaps you should redefine "succeed."
Master: Perhaps you should redefine "succeed."
All the multimedia messages below were supposed to have pictures. Find them at Phlog.net. I'll copy the pictures over soon.
Time to rest.
Time to rest.
Friday, August 06, 2004
Testing Meme Propagation In Blogspace
Testing Meme Propagation In Blogspace:
Add Your Blog!
This posting is a community experiment that tests how a meme, represented by this blog posting, spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. It may also help to show which blogs (and aggregation sites) are most influential in the propagation of memes. The dataset from this experiment will be public, and can be located via Google (or Technorati) by doing a search for the GUID for this meme (below).
Please join the test by adding your blog (see instructions, below) and inviting your friends to participate -- the more the better. The data from this test will be public and open; others may use it to visualize and study the connectedness of blogspace and the propagation of memes across blogs.
The GUID for this experiment is:
as098398298250swg9e98929872525389t9987898tq
98wteqtgaq62010920352598gawst
The above GUID enables anyone to easily search Google or other search engines for all blogs that participate in this experiment, once they have indexed the sites that participate, which may take several days or weeks. To locate the full data set, just search for any sites that contain this GUID.
Anyone is free to analyze the data of this experiment. Please publicize your analysis of the data, and/or any comments by adding comments onto the original post (see URL above). (Note: it would be interesting to see a geographic map or a temporal animation, as well as a social network map of the propagation of this meme.)
INSTRUCTIONS
To add your blog to this experiment, copy this entire posting to your blog, and then answer the questions below, substituting your own information, below, where appropriate. Other than answering the questions below, please do not alter the information, layout or format of this post in order to preserve the integrity of the data in this experiment (this will make it easier for searchers and automated bots to find and analyze the results later).
REQUIRED FIELDS (Note: Replace the answers below with your own answers)
(1) I found this experiment at URL: http://domesticpsychology.blogspot.com/
(2) I found it via "Newsreader Software" or "Browsing the Web" or "Searching the Web" or "An E-Mail Message": Newsreader Software
(3) I posted this experiment at URL: http://cursed-juggler.blogspot.com/
(4) I posted this on date (day/month/year): 06/08/04
(5) I posted this at time (24 hour time): 20:26
(6) My posting location is (city, state, country): (Knoxville, TN, USA)
OPTIONAL SURVEY FIELDS:
(7) My blog is hosted by: Blogger
(8) My age is: 35
(9) My gender is: Male
(10) My occupation is: Un-employed Computer Consultant
(11) I use the following RSS/Atom reader software: Sharpreader
(12) I use the following software to post to my blog: Blogger
(13) I have been blogging since (day, month, year): 05/01/04
(14) My web browser is: Mozilla Firebird
(15) My operating system is: Windows XP
Add Your Blog!
This posting is a community experiment that tests how a meme, represented by this blog posting, spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. It may also help to show which blogs (and aggregation sites) are most influential in the propagation of memes. The dataset from this experiment will be public, and can be located via Google (or Technorati) by doing a search for the GUID for this meme (below).
Please join the test by adding your blog (see instructions, below) and inviting your friends to participate -- the more the better. The data from this test will be public and open; others may use it to visualize and study the connectedness of blogspace and the propagation of memes across blogs.
The GUID for this experiment is:
as098398298250swg9e98929872525389t9987898tq
98wteqtgaq62010920352598gawst
The above GUID enables anyone to easily search Google or other search engines for all blogs that participate in this experiment, once they have indexed the sites that participate, which may take several days or weeks. To locate the full data set, just search for any sites that contain this GUID.
Anyone is free to analyze the data of this experiment. Please publicize your analysis of the data, and/or any comments by adding comments onto the original post (see URL above). (Note: it would be interesting to see a geographic map or a temporal animation, as well as a social network map of the propagation of this meme.)
INSTRUCTIONS
To add your blog to this experiment, copy this entire posting to your blog, and then answer the questions below, substituting your own information, below, where appropriate. Other than answering the questions below, please do not alter the information, layout or format of this post in order to preserve the integrity of the data in this experiment (this will make it easier for searchers and automated bots to find and analyze the results later).
REQUIRED FIELDS (Note: Replace the answers below with your own answers)
(1) I found this experiment at URL: http://domesticpsychology.blogspot.com/
(2) I found it via "Newsreader Software" or "Browsing the Web" or "Searching the Web" or "An E-Mail Message": Newsreader Software
(3) I posted this experiment at URL: http://cursed-juggler.blogspot.com/
(4) I posted this on date (day/month/year): 06/08/04
(5) I posted this at time (24 hour time): 20:26
(6) My posting location is (city, state, country): (Knoxville, TN, USA)
OPTIONAL SURVEY FIELDS:
(7) My blog is hosted by: Blogger
(8) My age is: 35
(9) My gender is: Male
(10) My occupation is: Un-employed Computer Consultant
(11) I use the following RSS/Atom reader software: Sharpreader
(12) I use the following software to post to my blog: Blogger
(13) I have been blogging since (day, month, year): 05/01/04
(14) My web browser is: Mozilla Firebird
(15) My operating system is: Windows XP
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