Just the sheer stubborn drive to win. Keep me in mind these next few hours as I make my pitch to sell my first invention off.

Happy Birthday to me.

This past weekend has been very tiring for me. Three fourteen hour workdays, so much heavy lifting that needed doing. that, and I ended up wearing a dress and a sunhat, yelling at the top of my lungs that I was a nancy boy ( Read more... )

I'll admit that I am angry, and I refuse to sleep until I've written something positve here. So I'd like to say something else, and I don't care how strange it makes me look to the people I've never met in real life.

don't skip over this. ( Read more... )

we, as men, live on the edge of a razor blade. teetering on the brink of oblivion herself, the great irony is that no matter how massive the threat of non-existence may be, we so arrogantly forget how fragile and gratuitous it is that we wake each day to face our struggles. we should be so lucky that we blow a tire out on the freeway so late at ( Read more... )

it does seem as if i can never be apologizing too much for ignoring my journal and the friends that I may observe through it. it reminds me of some very wise advice that CS gave me one time, and that advice stays with me even as I type now, but it is good to stay in touch, though with people that I do not know in real life, how sad it is that my ( Read more... )

I have been thinking this afternoon, as I most often do, about economics; the acquisition and management of wealth. More specifically, I've been thinking about the statement that some people go from nothing to everything. I think that this statement is incorrect and foolish. Logically, all men, wealthy or not, start from nothing. All men must ( Read more... )

I remember a long time ago, I watched at a renaissance faire while one of the paid actors did a prepared spiel for the people leaving the faire, welcoming them to "future world" and warning them of it's dangers, such as carriages that did not have horses ( Read more... )

And now it's time for another true story ( Read more... )

crafty little waterfowl that they are ( Read more... )

There should be a surreal themed restaurant,  like salvador dali,  you know, clocks hanging over bathtubs and whatnot.   Only two rules, don't mess with the food, or the people.   Other than that, there could be differences in architecture from room to room, tables coming off walls, bathtubs, rubber clocks, menu's printed in binary,  and a hostess ( Read more... )