Me sketching some solutions for a rather tricky joint I am working on with Lego...
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
A blog by any other name…
To be honest, it all began as a joke.
About a year ago, I decided to go buy a new pair of glasses with increased light glare reduction. (Damned light sensitivity…) I found that the best tint for this yellow. It is, after all, the color used by hunters and competitive shooters. When I put on the new glasses, they worked great- but when my friends first saw me wearing them, they wondered what the fuck I was thinking. So I ad-libbed, saying that while most people choose to look at life through rose-colored glasses, I preferred to view it through urine-tinted lenses.
And so it began…
As I kept using the joke, I came to realize had become a metaphor for how I view life. While in general I try to be optimistic and humorous with my views, unlike people who follow without question and put their blind faith in convention, (Hopenchange, anyone?) I feel I MUST question, MUST be skeptical… MUST find the truth in the tale.
When I study a situation, I try to find out as much as possible about it, then I make a choice based on all the evidence I have gathered. This method has made others label me an argumentative or contrarian, but I believe that if you make a choice without knowing the consequences, you deserve what you get.
So I use this philosophy in naming and planning this blog. When necessary, I will present the facts for my cases, and rationally explain why I have made the decisions I did. And I shall do so, when possible, with humor, but rarely, if ever, with maliciousness. We as a society have become, in my opinion, far too coarse, and I will try my best to not add to it. My goal is not to force you to my view, but to make you think about your views. I want you to prove to yourself why the views you have chosen are the right ones… and maybe convince me. After all, I like to say that a mind that refuses to see other possibilities is a mind that has stopped growing.
About a year ago, I decided to go buy a new pair of glasses with increased light glare reduction. (Damned light sensitivity…) I found that the best tint for this yellow. It is, after all, the color used by hunters and competitive shooters. When I put on the new glasses, they worked great- but when my friends first saw me wearing them, they wondered what the fuck I was thinking. So I ad-libbed, saying that while most people choose to look at life through rose-colored glasses, I preferred to view it through urine-tinted lenses.
And so it began…
As I kept using the joke, I came to realize had become a metaphor for how I view life. While in general I try to be optimistic and humorous with my views, unlike people who follow without question and put their blind faith in convention, (Hopenchange, anyone?) I feel I MUST question, MUST be skeptical… MUST find the truth in the tale.
When I study a situation, I try to find out as much as possible about it, then I make a choice based on all the evidence I have gathered. This method has made others label me an argumentative or contrarian, but I believe that if you make a choice without knowing the consequences, you deserve what you get.
So I use this philosophy in naming and planning this blog. When necessary, I will present the facts for my cases, and rationally explain why I have made the decisions I did. And I shall do so, when possible, with humor, but rarely, if ever, with maliciousness. We as a society have become, in my opinion, far too coarse, and I will try my best to not add to it. My goal is not to force you to my view, but to make you think about your views. I want you to prove to yourself why the views you have chosen are the right ones… and maybe convince me. After all, I like to say that a mind that refuses to see other possibilities is a mind that has stopped growing.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
A clip show ALREADY?
Hello.
For those of you who haven't read my old postings, I am publishing the link here so you can get up to speed if necessary.
PREPARE TO BE UNDERWHELMED!!
Don't say I didn't warn ya...
For those of you who haven't read my old postings, I am publishing the link here so you can get up to speed if necessary.
PREPARE TO BE UNDERWHELMED!!
Don't say I didn't warn ya...
Is it time to burn the ships?
Hello… and welcome to the new home of my blog.
Around four years ago I started writing a blog on MySpace. It was fine and dandy… but it had problems. One of the biggest was that in order to comment on my blog, you had to be a member of MySpace… and frankly, I can understand why people wouldn’t want to do that. So I blatantly ripped off an idea my friend had and moved to here.
Now why did it take so long for me to make the change? Besides the obvious, my inherent laziness, there were several other factors at work. A stolen laptop with several blog posts and pictures for it I had worked on, upgrading several computers to Windows 7 (best move EVAR), and my fixation on beautiful ladies and Legos all helped in the delay. But after finding out I have no more excuses, I began to work on this project in earnest.
So what will be on this new blog? More of the same, with some new additions. Besides the usual postings of my skewed views of people and politics, bizarre dreams and my views on dreams, and ranting about how pathetic I am, I will be adding the random cel phone camera picture (which is SO popular on Facebook), the return of How to speak Chikenese, progress on Lego projects, and eventually the live Instant Zen webcam featuring Crow and Gypsy. I hope to achieve about a post a week, but that may change if I find myself doing what I used to do when I had a diary. (I would forget for weeks, then go back and put ‘Today I had fun.’ each day to look like I kept it up.) My main goal is to use this blog to continue honing my skill with the written word… and hopefully provoke thought and debate. So let’s all sit back, relax and see where this trip ends up taking us… it just might not be boring as hell.
And as always, feel free to tell me how much I suck- I need practice on my witty comebacks… (‘Yo mamma!’ doesn’t really work anymore…)
Around four years ago I started writing a blog on MySpace. It was fine and dandy… but it had problems. One of the biggest was that in order to comment on my blog, you had to be a member of MySpace… and frankly, I can understand why people wouldn’t want to do that. So I blatantly ripped off an idea my friend had and moved to here.
Now why did it take so long for me to make the change? Besides the obvious, my inherent laziness, there were several other factors at work. A stolen laptop with several blog posts and pictures for it I had worked on, upgrading several computers to Windows 7 (best move EVAR), and my fixation on beautiful ladies and Legos all helped in the delay. But after finding out I have no more excuses, I began to work on this project in earnest.
So what will be on this new blog? More of the same, with some new additions. Besides the usual postings of my skewed views of people and politics, bizarre dreams and my views on dreams, and ranting about how pathetic I am, I will be adding the random cel phone camera picture (which is SO popular on Facebook), the return of How to speak Chikenese, progress on Lego projects, and eventually the live Instant Zen webcam featuring Crow and Gypsy. I hope to achieve about a post a week, but that may change if I find myself doing what I used to do when I had a diary. (I would forget for weeks, then go back and put ‘Today I had fun.’ each day to look like I kept it up.) My main goal is to use this blog to continue honing my skill with the written word… and hopefully provoke thought and debate. So let’s all sit back, relax and see where this trip ends up taking us… it just might not be boring as hell.
And as always, feel free to tell me how much I suck- I need practice on my witty comebacks… (‘Yo mamma!’ doesn’t really work anymore…)
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