Category: ramblings

  • Digging Through 15 Years of Crap

    ramblings

    I’ve been working on implementing GTD, and part of that is working through all the random piles of crap I have spread about the house. So, now I have a shiny new 4-drawer filing cabinet (reminds me a lot of my Grandpa’s) and I’ve been furiously creating folder labels and filing things for a week and a half now.

    Of course, one of the joys of doing this is coming across cool random old things like this X.com debit card— an online banking service that was bought by Paypal shortly after I signed up. Ah, the heady days of the internet…

    X.com Debit Card

  • This city is skin deep, but what gorgeous skin.

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    The first time I went to Vegas, it was sensory overload. Everything was amazing. The second time, my reaction was more, “Is this all there is?” Since then I’ve been there a couple times on business trips, and comes to terms with its superficiality. You have to enjoy it as it is, and not impose the the idea that it’s some magical wonderland.

    My only recommendation — time your first flight in so you get there after sunset, and have a limo booked from the airport to your hotel, and make them take you for a drive down the Strip. You really want that neon and glitter to be your first impression of the city, because Vegas is supremely ugly during the day.

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  • Satemallite Radio

    ramblings

    So, I got the Sirius for the car. Yay! It very nearly totally rocks, in a very literal way.

    Thing is, I noticed while scanning the comedy stations tonight that there were commercials, and I was royally pissed. I mean, isn’t this why I’m PAYING for it? …so I won’t have to listen to that […]

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  • Chitown Hijinkery

    ramblings

    Ah, yes— Chicago. I went last weekend, and I have pictures and I have notes, but the story is not yet forthcoming because 1.) I’ve been wicked busy, and 2.) I still am. Sometime before the end of the weekend, I will make a valiant attempt at codifying my story and updating this post. Until then, you have this flickr tag to keep you company.

  • Otters

    art, ramblings

    I just came across a great reason for being proud of being made a member of the Happy Otter Clan™, in this quote by Neil Gaiman from an article in Time magazine:

    Except the trouble is, as a creator…I saw a lovely analogy recently. Somebody said that writers are like otters. And otters are really hard to train. Dolphins are easy to train. They do a trick, you give them a fish, they do the trick again, you give them a fish. They will keep doing that trick until the end of time. Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they’ll do a better trick or a different trick because they’d already done that one. And writers tend to be otters. Most of us get pretty bored doing the same trick. We’ve done it, so let’s do something different.

Mark Boszko

Film & Video Editor, Voiceover Artist, macOS IT Engineer, and Maker

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