Earlier this week I heard that Steve Irwin, better known to millions as “The Crocodile Hunter”, died in a marine accident while filming a TV show. To many people, this sounds like the punchline of a joke; the first question out of their mouths is...
So, a funny thing happened to me the other day. For some reason, I don’t mind working any more, either physically or mentally. After my despair-ectomy, I started creating a reading nook in my house, which involved a lot of lift-and-carry work. ...
Imagine a life without fear. Without discouragement, frustration, and despair. A life where nothing can ever make you feel “bad” again.Is such a thing really possible? I’m not 100% certain… but I do know you can get awfully close. In the last...
This weekend I was working on a little household project: cleaning out a spare bedroom so I could create a quiet reading nook, apart from the distractions of my office and the noise of the TV in the living room.The spare room was filled with boxes...
So here it is, nearly a week since I performed my personal despair-ectomy, and things are continuing to change in interesting ways.I’m no longer quite as euphoric when my negative thoughts don’t result in feelings of depression. In fact, I...
On Friday evening, I went out with my wife to celebrate our most recent personality upgrades over dinner, and discussion of how we might want to change some of our routines now that we are both a bit more inclined to take care of ourselves. ...
We all understand temptation – or at least we think we do. Alexander Woolcott is supposed to have said, “All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening,” while the Bible says we should “enter not into temptation: the...
Earlier this week, reader Betsy Nein had this comment:I’m 68 years young living in Fla. and wanting to do much more in my remaining years. Problem is, I’ve always knew what I didn’t like to do, but not exactly it was that I did like to do. What’s my...
Jeff Shell follows up on my DSL post:There is something about that that just looks kindof… nice. :all. In my editor, Symbols are colorized differently than strings, which helps them stand out even more. find :all. Not findAll() or find(all=True) or...
Last week, an anonymous reader wrote this comment:how do you live your dreams when you don’t even know what they are what do you do when you have no passion, no drive no reason to get up and out of bed at any time of the daySo this week, I’m writing...
Can people really change? We tend to assume that circumstances change easily and often, but that people change rarely, slowly, and with great difficulty. But these assumptions are wrong.The truth is that people can change easily and instantly. ...
I recently came across this interesting project:“The Alloy Analyzer is a tool developed by the Software Design Group for analyzing models written in Alloy, a simple structural modeling language based on first-order logic. The tool can generate...
