September 22, 2007
Full metro length
By making sure that I enter at the front of the metro rather than at the back, I figure that I speed up my walk to work by the time it takes to stroll a full metro length, say maybe forty-five seconds. That's a pretty significant win when you think about it.
However, by having to get there in the first place from where I am initially standing, I have to invest at least a full metro length to make it to the front of the metro. Let's avoid fooling ourselves from something that makes perfect sense, and subtract the forty-five seconds, please.
This so-called illusion therefore effectively cancels out any long-term investments by first incurring short-term debt which is never won back. Net result is thus zero. Entering the front or the back does not make any difference.
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February 1, 2007
Discovered or not
I was looking around when all of a sudden I thought I had discovered it but that was not to be the case.
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November 3, 2005
Drones
A drone is not only an idle person who has no other purpose is life than to loaf off of others, but it is also a pilotless aircraft operated by remote control, a so-called unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
There was that Borg cube orbiting the Earth for awhile, but I am not sure if that qualifies as a real drone or not.
All those snobby buggers wearing three-piece suits, carrying fancy-looking laptops, and sitting so snugly in the first class train carriage, while I am packed in with the other poor normal folks in second, yeah those are first class drones that's for sure.
Drone was also the name of one of the Star Trek Voyager episodes.
Finally, there was that detective drone guy who popped up in many of the British crime novels during the last century.
I guess then that you can characterize a 'drone' as someone who has an irritating lack of manners and general decency.
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August 18, 2005
Keep us where we belong
We are just a bunch of birds without wings thinking that we can fly and not having the common sense to admit to ourselves that indeed there are certain limitations that keep us where we belong.
These limitations include: gravitation, the human body, (the lack of enough) air friction and worst but not least common sense.
This entry has been inspired by an interesting book I recently finished.
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July 14, 2005
Jagged rock and water
In my vision I stood atop a lofty cliff which fell off onto a distant sea whose vastness kept me in awe for an uncertain time which even to this very day I am still unable to measure in my mind.
Way out there on the razor-thin horizon some kind of jittery motion sprung into life and caused gentle ripples on the sea's surface which eventually reached the cliff's base where the jagged rock met the water.
Almost as if I were born yesterday so close to the beginning and enjoying a scene from the real world for the very first time.
When it was time to turn my back and descend the winding path on the other side I was saddened by the thoughts that I would never witness this magnificent scene again.
At least not with my own eyes but something else.
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June 19, 2005
Driven deep into nowhere
So what did those innocent little screws ever do to deserve such an unfair fate?
To make matters even worse, I take my cordless Mikata driver-drill and ruthlessly drive each and every one deep into the interior of the wood never to see the light of day again.
Driven deep into nowhere to hold up a shelf, the side of a cabinet, or the door hinge, and then staying that way until who knows when.
If it weren't for the daily sacrifices of these many pointy and metallic heroes, not much else in the world would be standing right now.
Keep up the good work.
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June 12, 2005
Draft Craft Manifesto
For a list of reasons why we craft the things we do check out this page for fun.
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May 30, 2005
Not so distant future
Sometimes (too often than not) other people think they have a better way of doing things while you know silently your way is really the better approach.
What seems to you to be perfectly logical may not be so in the eyes of those above and to the side. Gut-feeling, an emotional sideways glance, who know what.
That's when arguments and discussions have no purpose anymore because the other decision has already been made.
Just accept it for now and hope that in the end it will come back to you in the not so distant future.
Come back in the end to where it meant to be all along.
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May 24, 2005
Take it
Take it.
Take it while it comes.
Take it while it comes and then let it go.
Take it while it comes and then let it go like there was nothing else in the world.
That really mattered.
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May 3, 2005
Not knowing
There's alot of it going around lately, but no one is quite sure where it is coming from.
Perhaps the real question might be whether or not it would in the end be useful to know.
Not knowing is more than likely the better way to go.
Even if it cannot be proved.
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May 1, 2005
Mechanical beings
There right in front of me was yet another middle-aged conflict ready to become so very exaggerated that there was no end in sight. Or was there?
The mechanical beings were coming this way, quicker and quicker, and it looked like they were ready to charge us. As if we were not ready but we were, those feeble mis-wired electrical minds.
Since birth we had been taught that they would be stopped and that it was up to us or else. The time had come and it was now or never.
This was the first and the last chance at the same time, as the mechanical beings approached and then we knew.
We knew and then it was all over.
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April 16, 2005
All these years
I would say that one of the most difficult and absolutely necessary changes in your life is finally realizing that you should not keep doing what you think others think you should be doing and instead doing what your feelings deep down in your heart have been trying to tell you to do all these years.
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April 8, 2005
World around you
Here are a couple of interesting thoughts I have been pondering recently:
- You and no one else can create the world around you.
- Your body manifests the pictures you take inside your mind.
I don't know what you believe, but I am fairly confident that there is much truth in these thoughts.
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April 3, 2005
More than courage
Courage comes from the French work 'coeur' which stands for heart.
Question:
How shall I live my life so that it will mean something more than just a brief wink of biological awareness which in the end disappears forever?
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March 12, 2005
Not getting anywhere
The main reason that I like to run on the treadmill in the weekends so much is that even though you are running at one spot it seems like you are going on and on endlessly.
This is quite unlike daily life during the rest of the week where it seems like you are running around endlessly and in the end not getting anywhere at all.
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February 17, 2005
Not frozen over
Rumbling along on my bicycle early in the morning in the pitch dark on my way to the train station it is so darn cold that I am amazed that the water has not frozen over.
I know this because the wind causes subtle ripples on the surface which reflect light dynamically with all kinds of motions which I know would not be possible if the surface was otherwise.
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February 14, 2005
A tap just in case
Just in case, I decided to tap myself on my left shoulder to see what would happen if perchance I had declined to do that in the first place.
Much to my surprise things occurred as expected, so I felt better about everything anyway.
Have a good day, I kept thinking to myself.
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January 10, 2005
Deconstructing inifinity
Why my life of trying to catch up with the inevitable is not so inevitable at all:
"In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead..."
See
Deconstructing Infinity: An Analysis of Zeno's Paradox for more information.
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December 31, 2004
Before it is too late
Okay it's the last day of the year and there is a mad rush to get everything done in time before it is too late.
The ironic thing is that it can never be too late, because next year and then the next year and so on means that there will always be enough buffer pushed forward to make up for and absorb any extra lost time.
If only other matters did not also happen to arise when least expected.
In other words, enjoy the year while it lasts and have a fun and relaxing new year.
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December 15, 2004
Giant tidal waves
There are a number of issues which still need to be handled properly before we can continue in good form. Or not?
Take for instance the third item on that list over there. At first glance, it may not appear to be a very important item, but as it turns out it is far from a trivial matter. In fact, whether or not we ignore it, it still has profound and tremendous impact on the longterm results. Or so we can only assume and hope and hope not.
Like that exotic butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon jungle, eventually causing giant tidal waves which flood the coasts of unknowing countries on the other side of the world.
We can ignore it and toss the dice hoping that all will go well. Indeed the chances are there, and they look good and they tell us that we may very well succeed. Even if we don't deserve it.
But are the risks really worth it? You will never know for sure. We are not in here for playing the grand old what-ifs game. We must go on.
That's it for now, so watch out but continue anyway.
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December 2, 2004
Drugstore binoculars
Alright so have a good look through these drugstore binoculars and tell me what you see.
Surprised, aren't you?
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November 23, 2004
Not so different
"You know, when you really think about it, I do not believe our lives are that much different. The truth is we do pretty much the same things but in slightly different environments, e.g. living day by day and trying to make the best of it without being too into ourselves..."
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October 24, 2004
Bury the dead
Heard the following quote on the BBC Radio this early morning in the car driving around who knows where:
"Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead..."
For some reason, it really struck a chord somewhere deep inside of me, making me think about one thing in particular and then another.
That's when the chorus began and the wonderful notes echoed inside of the distant cathedral somewhere, inside and around my head, probably in another dimension of time and place.
... (Matthew 8:22)
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October 16, 2004
Success of the highest kind
For me it is not so very important at all how super smart or brilliant someone might be or whatever kind of fantastic education one has had.
The most important thing is how well one uses this knowledge in selecting creative and original tid-bits in order to accomplish the most with the least.
Choosing the middle-path when appropriate, forsaking perfection for a better reality.
Common-sense, down-to-earth, to the point, faith in oneself, perseverance, and the courage to give up in time and be honest even if it means failure.
When in fact it means success of the highest kind.
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October 12, 2004
Similar differences
There was this grumpy old man sitting next to this happy young girl, more than likely greater than half a century of time separating them.
Ironically, the reality of the situation was that the true distance between them was less than half a meter.
Things are often more similar than they appear to be different.
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October 9, 2004
Infinite darkness
Staring with groggy eyes into the seemingly infinite darkness becomes much less disconcerting when your mind awakes and clears up the situation.
The window is not painted over but it is as transparent as can be. An occasional distant pinpoint of light skimming over from the left to right attests to the fact that I am moving with impressive velocity.
Do not worry because you will not become swallowed up. Instead you tear through the invisible brown paper bag of awareness so that you can see the light better.
Velocity is an illusion, but getting there is not.
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September 11, 2004
Jung talk
The Jung Talk Forums are back up and running.
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