I’ve been sick all week.
I’m coughing and have a runny nose.
Worst of all, I haven’t been training.
This sucks.
I can handle not feeling well; I’m rubbish at sitting around. Especially with the European Jiu-Jitsu Open Championship quickly approaching.
But, I don’t want to make anyone at BJJ ill. Of course, it would have been nice if the sick-o at work had been so considerate.
Perhaps we are looking at the death of big corporate media. The democratization of information, the big promise of the information age is looking to undermine the power of mass consumption and the monopoly on communication. Should be fun.
I just found this. I liked it.
Current Terror Threat Level:
It’s that time of year again.
Secret Santa.
I loathe this game.
I don’t think it is fun.
Basically, I have never sen everyone leave happy.
Someone always gets crap and everyone gets a good laugh.
It is a terrible example of Schadenfreude.
Ho ho ho, hee hee hee.
I’d rather take the money that I am spending on someone I don’t know
for something they don’t need and give the money to a cause.
So I gave twice what I paid for the gift to a charity.
It helped me feel a bit less like a rampant consumer.
I tried to bow out of the Secret Santa but apparently someone had already picked my name.
If you are out there and are my Secret Santa, please just give the money to a cause and hand me a photocopy of the receipt.
I’ll let you keep the original for your taxes.
Please don’t buy me crap!
Actually, I could use a Taser. That could could liven up any office party.
I am not a mathematician. Those genes seem to have been entirely concentrated in other members of my family. However, I love language. I am really sick of people saying “Lowest Common Deonominator” in mass media. It is obvious they are echoing soundbytes and not referring to math(s). If anything, the mathematical term they want to talk about it the Greatest Common Factor. But that has the word “Great” in it. So you can’t use that. Can’t talk about the appeal of celebrity gossip, Paris Hilton and the word “Great” in the same sentence.
In addition to referring to myself in third person, there is something else I try not to do. That is: talk about computer books. Most of them are incredibly shitty. If you are looking for entertainment, it is more exciting to read a cereal box. However… I am going to take exception to this. I am in the middle of a book by Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates entitled “Head First Java”. This book is good.
It has a lot of really jazzy techniques to keep your mind entertained and I have actually learned a lot. My Java is going off right now.
Also, I have started reading the Creating Passionate Users Blog, which is terrific. I don’t read a lot of blogs. But this one is good. This blog is connected to the writers of the Head First series.
Work has been crazy.
Really…
No… Really…
I’ve been thinking about this phrase all day and I’m not sure why.
“There’s no accounting for taste.”
I keep picturing guys with suspenders, wire-rimmed spectacles and green visors rubbing their temples while resting their elbows on their desks.