So, yes, I'm trying to post here more. Let's see if I can continue.

I was meeting up with omnifarious on Sunday to talk about some technical things and ended up overlapping a meeting he was having with a fellow named Lion Kimbro. Very interesting fellow. I asked him for his e-mail address. He gave me that, his phone number, a rough sketch of a lion, and ( Read more... )

My friend, pattytoo posted about having a very good teacher. The teacher said what seems like the ideal of what teaching can be if the teaching to student ratio is low enough:One of the most helpful things she said to me is that she wants me to put 0% effort into worrying about failure, and 100% effort into pushing myself to the bleeding edge of my ( Read more... )

The weather continues to be rather interesting here in Seattle. The winds are a bit strong, we had the lights flicker multiple times on Friday night. This freaks Sally out since she's afraid of the dark… This morning while I was downtown, I was really fighting the wind and I heard "Help! Oh, please Help!" and I turned the corner to find two ( Read more... )

Sometimes, I take some time during my lunch to go down to the local people congregation area and watch people while reading my book. I really like a wide variety of people but I do know that one feature beats out everything else and that is a smile. It makes some sense when I think about it but the transformation that someone's face takes on when ( Read more... )

Travelling by train down to Portland seems different than my trainrides up to Vancouver, BC. I'm not quite sure how but it seemed more like a plane flight than this trip did. It was very interesting that many people were chatting with people they had just met and likely wouldn't see again. I liked hearing what they talked about when I wasn't ( Read more... )