Archive for December, 2004

Ego and Salad

Tuesday, December 7th, 2004

The world revolves around me. Apparently. My personal attention to others is microscopic sometimes, usually to compensate for moments when my ego apparently spans the globe.
I just found out today that years ago, I met a fellow I’d known online for some time, at a dinner party I attended. I’m sure at the time [...]

Burning Bridges

Monday, December 6th, 2004

I burned a bridge this morning. Well ok, it was only a single-digit fractional remainder of a bridge, a tenous agreement to cordial civility, and to keeping any attemps at mutual destruction private, but it was a fairly comfortable span across an abyss I just don’t want to fall into.
On a highly public [...]

Come West!

Sunday, December 5th, 2004

A viewer once said,
“Come West! You and me,
We’ll charge by the thousand
(altruism’s not free…)”
But alas, there is no
further West I can be–
It’s South of my Character Map.
I’m going to vent about the Remote Viewing field, in particular the cultism et al. That’s one of the many great uses for a blog: rants. Then I [...]

Necessity is a Mother.

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004

They say that necessity is the mother of all invention. It’s true, though that leaves out the impressive evolution that corporate greed and the internet have both accomplished the last ten years. Necessity of time, however, is apparently the father of un-invention… such as when people like me use mass-produced software for their blogs.
I’m [...]