5 posts tagged “qotd”
Meeting anyone IRL is always better than anything the Web has so far been able to provide. Email sucks for really expressing yourself, IM is even worse. Too many opportunities for miscommunication and saying one thing but meaning another.
I remember in particular meeting Leslie Harpold via Alexis Massie nee Allen when I was living in Boston. I don't believe I was looking forward to it, but it ended up being one of the best meetings of my life and it ended up with a lasting friendship that I hope will last my lifetime.
I think you can certainly get an impression of someone online via their writing and creative endeavors, but there's always a filter in place and the face-to-face meetings are always, always more satisfying.
At an impressionable age, and I think that in high school one is still impressionable, I was being bombarded by my peers not to start smoking, but rather to accept Jesus Christ as my personal savior. My Mormon, Baptist, Catholic and Calvery Chapel friends all had the Jesus, and everyone was bing Born Again all over the place. Hell, our President had lusted in his heart and said Jesus forgave him, so maybe my alternative-lifestyle lustfulness could be similarly forgiven.
But the Holy Bible convinced me that it was all hokum and nonsense. Too many contradictions, too many unbelievable tales of floods and salt pillars and walking on water and coming back to life to suit my logical mind, so I concluded that Christianity and, really, believing in God just wasn't in the cards for me and from that day to this - with a few slippages of faith - I have remained an Atheist.
Thank you, Jesus!
The day I was born, it was "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by The Tokens, which has since been ruined by Disney. On the day I turned 21, the hit at number 1 was "Maneater" by Daryl Hall and John Oates, which may or may not have been precient. And as long as we're that far into it, the day I turned 40 years old and said goodbye to youth and started driving the car of my life over the hill, the song at the top of the charts was "How You Remind Me" by Nickelback, a song I have never even heard of before I looked it up. Thanks, Wikipedia! I'm old!
Well, it looks like this:
View of my desk showing the ultra cool yard-wide all mousing-surface for when I need to really roll that sucker while editing video on my VAIO. There's that bagel plate again, and a small espresso cup on its square saucer. Between the screens (Dell 20.1" widers) are some fairly funky ass speakers that sound amazingly good. But with some of my recent gaming experiences (i.e. Half Life2, Episode 1) I may need some roaring 5.1 THX thangers.
The view to my left as I work shows me my entire apartment (almost). There is a small cat in the sun lying in front of the "entertainment center" and my famous Sampo heavy-ass TV. More Eames in the foreground. Suspended bike. The series of colored cubes in the far back is the Cat Tower, from which she surveys the backyard area and pretends she could actually catch those damned pigeons.
This is a tough question because my taste in music isn't the hippest. At all. By any stretch of the imagination. And one person's poison is another person's tonic.
iTunes tells me I have over 10,000 songs on my hard drive, and I manage to burn most of my CDs on there so a quick review reveals that I own and listen to "Billy Joel Souvenir: The Ultimate Collection" which was a 4-disc greatest hits, but even that isn't as bad as "Reload! Frankie: The Whole 12 Inches" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Three versions of Relax, two versions of Two Tribes and 15-minute horror known as "Welcome to the Pleasuredome (Brothers in Rhythm Rollercoaster Mix)."
