The article may or may not be of interest, but is this not one of the coolest domain names you’ve ever heard?!
http://www.whalesalad.com/archives/conquering-bittorrent/
Takes me back to the days of the Manatee Hunter… 😉
Even Santa gets a little geeky sometimes!
This is kind of cute – track Santa’s trip around the world with Google Earth…
a night at the movies…
So tonight I finally got around to doing the whole Harry Potter / IMAX thing and all in all, it was a pretty good movie. I might write something up on it later, but I was just impressed by the views – very reminiscent of the Lord of the Rings…except I don’t believe that those were ever issued in IMAX (…although the third one might’ve been…).
Anyways, good show, coupled by a couple of quite brisk walks back to the parking garage, dodging Lightning fans along the way (apparently we lost)! Channelside even had its little Friday night celebration going on (pictured below) which is always kind of neat … and I’m even told that it snows at some point during the evening! It was far too cold for me to stick around any longer for that – maybe another night.
A Channelside Christmas…
Tomorrow – last-minute Christmas shopping, hopefully buying my elliptical, and the remainder of the housework that I’ve been putting off for far too long… :O
To end on a humorous holiday note…
Here’s a little classic holiday humor for you, geek and all!
tomorrow should be fun…
I’m only going in for a couple of hours tomorrow because I have some vacation time to burn before the end of the year, but not enough for an entire day. The plan is to be out by noon, come home and do some things around here for a few hours, then head on over to Disney to catch a couple of shows and the Christmas lights in the evening at MGM. I will be sure to go dig out my battery charger for the camera just as soon as I finish posting this so that I can take some pictures along the way!
I’ll get myself into the damn Christmas spirit around here one way or another… 🙂
expectations
Just food for thought, but sometimes I wonder if I set expectations that are simply too high for some people.
Somehow I got thinking about this tonight and it really made me wonder because often times I find myself getting angry with people and they don’t even know it – in one hand, I factor the values and moral implications that I [try] to live my own life to, and in the other, it also needs to be considered that not everyone else shares these points of view. So by expecting people to live by the ideals that I have in my own mind, am I setting unfair expectations or merely setting the bar for the kinds of people that I want to be around?
And the bigger question, why do I let some people slip farther away from these expectations than others???
I’ve got to admit that I’m more than a bit torn right now because part of me wants to proclaim that everyone should be able to live by their own morals…and I would certainly agree with that, but at the same time, it seems to me like this is something that pretty much everyone does, even if we don’t realize it. It could be something as simple as returning a phone call in a timely manner or your etiquette as far as opening doors for other people, or on a more grand scale such as your opinions of life, love and the pursuit of happiness – I guess we all judge people to some extent … its how we chose which people to be friends with in the first place, what kinds of company we keep on the weekends, and so on and so forth.
This is probably a topic larger than any single LiveJournal post can handle, so for now I’ll end by just throwing a couple of questions out there…
- When I find myself getting upset, is it because someone no longer meets the expectations that I had at the time or simply because my expectations have evolved beyond something that said person can meet?
- If the latter, is it fair to try to hold someone to these new expectations that weren’t conditional when you first met?
- And ultimately, does this lead back to pave the reasoning for why some would believe that the past should stay in the past, you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, and your best friends are the ones that you have right now?I’m certainly not pointing fingers at anyone, mind you – just entertaining an intriguing topic that I pondered during the drive home tonight, so feel free to chime in with any comments or ideas. It’s like sociology all over again… 😛
interesting…
My auto insurance policy just dropped by $12 / month after giving them my new address! I still think it’s too much to be paying to only cover me against lawsuits, but hey – that’s a hundred and fifty bucks more for me each year…
fudgecicles…
I had been planning on going over to Disney the day after Christmas to check out the Christmas lights at MGM, but I just noticed on my calendar that my pass has blackout dates starting Thursday and running into the new year … by the time I can go again, the exhibit will be closed… 🙁
Hmmm … is it worth taking Wednesday afternoon off to make the trip?
Re: President Bush’s Address to the Nation
So I missed Family Guy this evening because our President wanted to dominate the airwaves in an attempt to save face…and possibly divert some eyes from the whole spying on citizens scandal that he’s been under fire for lately. Is it just me or does it seem like the man’s been trained like a parrot to throw in the words liberty and freedom every sixth word or so?! Well, I’m happy to hear that he thinks that we’re doing well over in Iraq, but here’s just a little something that came to mind while I listened to his incessant banter this evening…
Dear Mr. Bush,
I’m glad to hear that you have a plan for us to finish up this whole Iraq-thing in 2006 – maybe when that’s all said and done, we could focus on some of the problems we still have here at home…that is, if you’ve got any time left in office at that point…Maybe we could start with all of the hospitals that I pass by each day on my way to work, filled with diseases that have no cures and patients who couldn’t afford to pay for them anyways. I’ve heard good things about that “Let’s just give everyone free healthcare”-plan that Canada’s got going – maybe you could give them a call and pick up a few pointers?
Then a bit of time shining up our classrooms – that might be nice, don’t you think? We could buy more books for the libraries that are still stuck in the 1990s, and perhaps even some more classrooms for the schools that are still praying for class sizes of forty or less. And I know this one is a little crazy, but I hear that there are still some schools that are connecting to the Internet via dial-up – there must be a telecommunications corporation that’s looking for a little primetime spotlight these days, isn’t there?!
And last but not least, and this should be an easy one because I can only assume that the situations over in Iraq must be horrendously worse than here – how about a solution to our homelessness and poverty issues? I just have a hard time getting into the Christmas spirit when I pass by several street corners in downtown Tampa that feature folks scavenging for breakfast out of the garbage cans, so I was thinking that once freedom and liberty have been restored over in Iraq, maybe we could get these citizens something to eat…
Just a few ideas from another one of those guys who thinks, “we’re wasting time, money, and American lives rebuilding Iraq in the name of freedom” – I hope I got that quote right because I had to step away from your speech for a few minutes to make myself stop laughing … a man can only take hearing the word “terror” mispronounced so many times … you’ll understand, though – I’m sure. Best of luck with Iraq – if you need me, I’ll be back here … at home …
Sincerely,
Scott Sevener