"In Motion..."
So these are just my thoughts. If you don't like them don't read them. If you do, great. Either way feel free to email me.
The Purpose of this blog is for me to do autobiographical writings about how I'm managing my life and things in it. I like to think this means I'm in motion....
I do photography professionally you can see some here
Finally here's me in a self portrait:
The archive is here if you're interested in reading some older posts...
~ Tuesday, May 14, 2002
Training Day
I spent pretty much the entire day watching a QII video on how to use photoshop. (The main tool in post production that any pro photographer uses)
I know a load more than before....
I spent pretty much the entire day watching a QII video on how to use photoshop. (The main tool in post production that any pro photographer uses)
I know a load more than before....
~ Monday, May 06, 2002
It's not mother necessity!
It's uncle lazy.
Who really invents new stuff? Lazy people. I love lazy. I think the best programmers are lazy. Not the slackers programmers who just don't do anything, but the truly lazy programmer. The lazy programmer feels for the computer. He or she just doesn't want the computer to do anything it doesn't have to do. They are willing to work harder up front and write the most elegant code so the computer does nothing extra. Nothing extra spells faster.
Thomas Edison and the Light Bulb? Too damn lazy to get a real job? Not sure. OK there is an economic edge to it too. But fundamentally its a lazy fuck who says shit I really don't want to do this anymore. Isn't there a better way?
This is the hart of QII. The important but the un urgent. QII should should maybe be called the lazy quadrant. I'm so lazy that I don't like to do the urgent I'd rather get my important shit done before it becomes urgent then I can be lazy. All inventions are QII. If a building is on fire nobody tries to invent a new way to move water from point a to point b (point b being the fire hopefully). They just get whatever they know and they go. Chances are they don't have time to be inventing a pump when Mrs. O'Leary's barn is on fire. Enter QII we got a pump and a hose. Some guy in the middle of the bucket brigade was there passing buckets thinking "This sucks.I hate this. Shit if we had like a portable pipe we could drop in a lake... hmmm... crap more buckets...this really sucks. I mean we could just get something to move the water up hill. Crap its burning faster. We're fucked. Next time we need a hose. Ya that's it a hose a flexible pipe...."
What sucks for you?
What can you invent?
It's uncle lazy.
Who really invents new stuff? Lazy people. I love lazy. I think the best programmers are lazy. Not the slackers programmers who just don't do anything, but the truly lazy programmer. The lazy programmer feels for the computer. He or she just doesn't want the computer to do anything it doesn't have to do. They are willing to work harder up front and write the most elegant code so the computer does nothing extra. Nothing extra spells faster.
Thomas Edison and the Light Bulb? Too damn lazy to get a real job? Not sure. OK there is an economic edge to it too. But fundamentally its a lazy fuck who says shit I really don't want to do this anymore. Isn't there a better way?
This is the hart of QII. The important but the un urgent. QII should should maybe be called the lazy quadrant. I'm so lazy that I don't like to do the urgent I'd rather get my important shit done before it becomes urgent then I can be lazy. All inventions are QII. If a building is on fire nobody tries to invent a new way to move water from point a to point b (point b being the fire hopefully). They just get whatever they know and they go. Chances are they don't have time to be inventing a pump when Mrs. O'Leary's barn is on fire. Enter QII we got a pump and a hose. Some guy in the middle of the bucket brigade was there passing buckets thinking "This sucks.I hate this. Shit if we had like a portable pipe we could drop in a lake... hmmm... crap more buckets...this really sucks. I mean we could just get something to move the water up hill. Crap its burning faster. We're fucked. Next time we need a hose. Ya that's it a hose a flexible pipe...."
What sucks for you?
What can you invent?
~ Sunday, May 05, 2002
PTA
I was elected a month or so ago to be a vice president (one of 5) of our local unit of the PTA. This weekend I attended the state PTA convention. I was with the other officers from my unit. All women.
I'd like to start off by saying I expected to be living the double dance Friday scenerio all weekend. Not so. It just didn't happen. I attened a few classes but the people I was with didn't really want to hit the general sessions. That was great. The classes were mostly very good. They were often a surprise as they weren't named very well. I mean the titles were kinda off. So I went to something about adult culture at school was a great inner personal communcations class. The national resources for PTA was not about that at all it was about the national identity PTA was working towards.
A very worth while time. Supported values that I have and I learned some new stuff too.
I was elected a month or so ago to be a vice president (one of 5) of our local unit of the PTA. This weekend I attended the state PTA convention. I was with the other officers from my unit. All women.
I'd like to start off by saying I expected to be living the double dance Friday scenerio all weekend. Not so. It just didn't happen. I attened a few classes but the people I was with didn't really want to hit the general sessions. That was great. The classes were mostly very good. They were often a surprise as they weren't named very well. I mean the titles were kinda off. So I went to something about adult culture at school was a great inner personal communcations class. The national resources for PTA was not about that at all it was about the national identity PTA was working towards.
A very worth while time. Supported values that I have and I learned some new stuff too.
~ Thursday, May 02, 2002
What do photographers do?
They take pictures.... I'm headed to the garage to take some. It always makes me feel better.
They take pictures.... I'm headed to the garage to take some. It always makes me feel better.
Slice System
I need to print up more forms as I want to re inventory my slices. The system hasn't got all the kinks out, but it seems to work pretty well for Tammy. For me its a "it'll work if I work it" kinda thing but I'm not. If I look at my inventory, my priorities have totally changed on the business front since I started.
So I'm making a turn. but I'm still moving... It's not easy. It's hard to admit that I'm giving up on the magic, but at the same time It lets me say "no" to a slew of less important things. I say yes to the main thing which is photography.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing! - Covey.
I need to print up more forms as I want to re inventory my slices. The system hasn't got all the kinks out, but it seems to work pretty well for Tammy. For me its a "it'll work if I work it" kinda thing but I'm not. If I look at my inventory, my priorities have totally changed on the business front since I started.
So I'm making a turn. but I'm still moving... It's not easy. It's hard to admit that I'm giving up on the magic, but at the same time It lets me say "no" to a slew of less important things. I say yes to the main thing which is photography.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing! - Covey.
Endurance
I'm selling some stuff and it's not easy. I didn't expect it to be. Then I did expect it to be and then of course it isn't. It's not that big a deal, but the thought that the stuff may have lost all of its value is just insane and didn't make me feel well.
Something is worth exactly what someone is willing to pay for it. Nothing more nothing less....
I'm selling some stuff and it's not easy. I didn't expect it to be. Then I did expect it to be and then of course it isn't. It's not that big a deal, but the thought that the stuff may have lost all of its value is just insane and didn't make me feel well.
Something is worth exactly what someone is willing to pay for it. Nothing more nothing less....
