It seems like mastering a technical craft requires one to be concerned with details of some object of production. The thing is, a lot of details are things that no one notices consciously unless they are done poorly. So, a lot of what goes into mastery of something is not appreciated. Producing things is only rarely a route to widespread acclaim ( Read more... )

I am afraid to tell people I love them because I am afraid that I do not or will not or cannot mean it. That they will ask too great a sacrifice of me. I am afraid to love because I am afraid to die. I am afraid that what I might think is love is throwing away some part of my life. In point of fact, I am lead to believe that love is essentially ( Read more... )

I need to stay in the present.

Lately my life has become a combination of house hunting and trying to avoid house hunting. Ironically, house hunting has actually turned into people hunting, as I have decided that the best place that I am going to find is the one I am living in right now, and that the best thing to do is rent it myself and try to find some people to share it ( Read more... )

What is a space? A space is a potential place. A place is a specific environment, a collection of consistent stimuli to the senses. When I see, hear, touch, smell and taste enough of the things I remember or that I expect, I know that I am in a place. When I am lost, I can be nowhere at all, or somewhere depending upon how I choose to sense my ( Read more... )

I'm starting to think that those I envy don't have special skills at knowing how to be hurt less by other people. Quite the opposite, I think it may be that they just choose to endure more for greater rewards. Everything comes with a price. Some things are worth more once obtained than what one pays, but everything has a price. If I'm not ( Read more... )

I hate it when I have to sit there for 10 seconds for your JavaScript image fade in to finish.

Please, stop doing this to me. I just want to see your pictures.

I am envious of those who trust their own ideas.

We'll induct over fancy made up sentences describing what I do ( Read more... )

Wanted, for crazy harebrained schemes ( Read more... )