An open and frank declaration
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Leave your adrenaline at the door and bring your heart.
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WALL-E – A
starring WALL-E, eeevuh
By and large, WALL-E is fantastic. I loved it. Its about a robot with a personality and female robot who develops one. Basically its a romance, perhaps my favorite romance ever? Keep in mind King Kong is also on my favorite ‘love-story’ movies too, but this one is more conventional and obvious as a romance.
It’s very funny and cute. I recommend it to everyone who has a heart and patience to pick up on small subtleties. It is not an action movie at all but the more ‘slow’ movies I see, the more I think that character development happens without the flash. Action movies which have main hero save the girl and fall in ‘love’ are pretty shallow, and while wall-e can’t really talk, he has so much more depth and heart. This movie is deliberate, it is predictable but it’s very cute, it’s very clever. Your parents would like it, your grandparents would like it, you’ll like it too.
Go watch Wall-E. Leave your adrenaline at the door and bring your heart.
Buy and Large (get it? by and large… badump) is featured in the movie, they have stores called Buy and Eat! BnL Stuff your face! BnL Chicken of the Space! Hah I love it.
I went to the Buy n Large website under Technology and they talk about this new robot husband that they are working on
A new owner says “Sometimes he cries at inappropriate times and bangs his head on the wall screaming, ‘Please kill me!’ but then I just quickly reboot him before the kids get upset. This is something we expect to have addressed when we start the beta testing cycle.”
And then their business news.
“In a stunning move today, BnL Finance lowered its bottom line while simultaneously raising its performance bar higher. If implemented correctly, BnL hopes this new strategy will affect absolutely nothing and maintain the impression that everything is ‘OK’. ”
Go find wall-e at your nearest theatre
Embarrass or Betrayal
03 years ago
What happens when I don’t really like telling people what I’m all about, what I do? I don’t think people value the same things, or believe me that I’m real about it. I want to change the world which seems to be laughable these days? I also want to try hard, which also seems to be against the flow? “You put on a tie?! We are in tshirts, stop being different.”
But then I could be differently motivated. I could be at the top. Impress people at their game, the cultural game. Yet I feel like I’d be contradicting myself; I’d betray my other values?
So what is in the middle?
I know I want to change the circumstances of my life, I want to move forward but does this come at a cost of where I’ve come? Maybe I can have different priorities now. That should be acceptable. If I am used to putting effort toward my career, and helping people as friends first, how do I change that? I have to give something up. I have to change my mode of attack. I have to work on other areas that have value too. “culture’s game” of the night life and the romance life is not without merit. Why can’t I just do it all? Or work on these areas?
I think it is safer to keep the priorities I’ve had than to make new ones. What happens if I’m not good at the new objectives? I know I’m not good at the new objectives. I don’t have any guides or a safety net. Maybe it’s just not me? How am I supposed to be a friend husband father and that if I can’t really make the initial stuff happen?
Nothing new here, but another list of self-help gibberish.
- Fight through inadequacies,
- Make my own priorities
- Pursue them at appropriate times
- Be willing to change, adapt
- Accept failure as an option
- Accept success as an option.
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Presentations
03 years ago
There was a recent how-to on wired about Al Gore’s presentation style. It outlines how presentations shouldn’t be read, slides are a tool. Your content and major themes should be spoken so they listen to you. Memorize material, large fonts, big images, phrases not paragraphs/sentences,. Blah blah, I’ve heard it before. That is basic but still necessary and often can prevent the vast majority of crappy presentations. But still, what makes a really great presentation? Or how do you express a new idea or information?
Then I saw this commoncraft page and they have wow! that is a really clever and informative way to explain complicated topics. If you tried to make it about a common theme or a speaker, it wouldn’t really be as useful or informative. Sure RSS is great, but this shows you why its great, and how to use it.
And twitter! Something you might not see the point of, but this could give you a positive perspective.
Start when you won’t stop
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A lot of things have momentum. A diet has momentum. A habit has momentum. A relationship has momentum. A passion has momentum. An exercise routine has momentum.
If you start something that you can’t keep up, or continue, you will halt that momentum. You will feel the jerk back, it could be hard. How do you stop a rolling boulder? If you manage to stop it, do you think its easy to start again? The boulder grows, the weight increases. It’s not the same as when you started.
I think its best to start many things when you don’t need to stop. This saves the problem of stopping, and it saves the problem of weirdness when you have stopped, longing for it again? Trying to recall or reminisce. I think its best to just carry things out the first time.
Explore your path, goal, fairly and fully.
Start something when you are ready to see it through.
Redefine what something is, so it doesn’t end – or -
End something without starting it again.
Peace is not found in the herky-jerky.
Make sure
0How do you know if something is best.
Does time make you sure?
Does an unsure opposite make you sure?
Does success make you sure?
Does external affirmation make you sure?
Does ease make you sure?
Does progress make you sure?
Do these things bring you the peace and security?
Does someone’s promise make you sure?
How do you test something?
I think they could all have validity, its all middle ground though. 10% certain or 90% certain is still not certain.
My brain is never certain, but I believe with certainty. It is a heart thing? I can’t explain because that would be a brain thing.
A peace of mind is not easily had. A peace of heart is?
superdogs
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I fly in circles yet I dodge hurdles
There are hoops and swoops.
There are bones to be thrown.
With wings for flight, why be at this height?
I may win I may lose,
I can rise above or even swoop below
but I could just snooze
This is not my show.
I wish to be super hot
But a dog I am not
Perhaps a gangly puppet with cape
I’m not blue; I only have a drape
Schemes to follow I do not grasp
I will not win or even succeed
To be anything but me
Sushi jelly rectangles aren’t. Random end
It's not easy to commit treason
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If you were given a task that was not limited to physical skill or wealth, which would be the most difficult?
I might say that high treason would be that thing
(1) Every one commits high treason who, in Canada,
(a) kills or attempts to kill Her Majesty, or does her any bodily harm tending to death or destruction, maims or wounds her, or imprisons or restrains her;
(b) levies war against Canada or does any act preparatory thereto; or
(c) assists an enemy at war with Canada, or any armed forces against whom Canadian Forces are engaged in hostilities, whether or not a state of war exists between Canada and the country whose forces they are.
So how are you going to do this? Charge at the queen with a knife? I suppose its not impossible, you can track her down and go nuts if you want, but its pretty difficult, and lots of people would stop you, and be upset… how upset? well hanged drawn and quartered isn’t so fun. What does drawn and quartered mean? Well quartered means exactly that, to be cut into quarters. And drawn is too gross to write about. I sorta think traitorous women have it easy
“Murder is now generally considered the worst of crimes, but in the past, treason was thought of as worse. In English law high treason was punishable by being hanged, drawn and quartered (men) or burnt at the stake (women)”
Stop! High Treason! Someone catch and hang and draw and quarter that man!
If you ever get caught, Guy Fawkes had a good plan
Fawkes, however, cheated the hangman by jumping from the scaffold from which he was supposed to be hanged, breaking his neck before he could be drawn and quartered
One last side note about Benedict Arnold (American General who betrayed his country and sided with the British) Arnold was killed by gout and deliriumat a late age. I suppose not all traitors are hung! Some feisty canadians may have tried though.
Benedict Arnold pursued interests in the shipping trade in Canada from 1787 until 1791, when an angry mob overran the front lawn of his home, burning an effigy labeled “traitor”, and troops were required to disperse them
Arrested Development's view of nice.
0Lindsay: “You are too nice”
Michael: “What am I supposed to do…
Lindsay: “You’ll never be able to do that, you’re too good, the noble one, the one who never wins, the loser, the fool”
Michael: “I’m a living saint and i get nothing out of it”
Lindsay: “well you get a false feeling of superiority”
Michael: “ya, that is nice”
Hah, its funny. But don’t people think its true? I dont think it has to be true, but it can be true. What is the real version of nice?
Answer: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians%202:8;&version=31;
Character
04 years ago
I think i’ve written about this before, but defending my character and honor is worth an extremely high amount to me. It is who I am, and I am willing to endure attacks and unrest for the preservation of this.
But on the other hand, I am willing to admit flaws and things I am working on ? I readily admit fault and I am a good apologizer I guess. I dont actually take those things as hurting my character? Perhaps because I respect people more who admit their mistakes and are willing to do something about it.
I am willing to do anything to improve my character, well as long as fear doesn’t overwhelm me. Stupid fear, why must things like rejection or failure hold me back! They might not even be manifested , I could be successful and yet the possibility still bothers me.
Most of all I just want to be Sheridan, and I feel so powerful when I am the person I’m made to be, its like when I am walking on the road that was laid out for me, I can sprint and jump and have sure footing! It’s awesome. However getting off track is scary, and there are times that I’ve really fallen and caused a lot of hurt, not only for myself but for others. I wish I could learn how important it was to stay true without messing up. But messing up sure has taught me that I dont want to mess up again.
Also, I think the way I can be a positive influence or help others is to be in a good place myself. Two messed up people can sorta maybe make a hodgepodge of fixing but I’d rather be in a good place before I can extend my hand out for others. And when I mess up I hope the person I reach out for is also in a solid place since there are many sources of ‘help’ that aren’t actually helpful at all.
Ahh! Sheridan!
0I am on a new mission to be true to Sheridan. Be who I want to be.
I totally blew it today.
There was an attractive girl taking groceries on the way home, three bags in each hand she was struggling. I was walking in a similar direction, it seemed like it could have been on my way but I was walking with a coworker. I think to myself, hmm, I should have asked if I could help. But I didn’t. I turned around when I thought this and I saw her struggling, she had to put one set of bags on the ground. Do I need any bigger flashing lights to help? Apparently I did because I kept on walking.
Ugh, I wish I was the Sheridan who would dare to care instead of the one who just thinks he would without doing anything about it.
