Monochromatic Outlook

I often find myself con­fused by my own val­ues. My reac­tions to some sit­u­a­tions leave me bemused and I fre­quent­ly don’t con­scious­ly rec­og­nize the aspects that offend or please me. I do try to trust my reac­tions, but some­times it is hard to jus­ti­fy when I can’t put my fin­ger on the cause.

It both­ers me to see boss­es mis­treat or dis­re­spect their employ­ees. Even when they are advo­cat­ing on my behalf, maybe espe­cial­ly when they are, I sit in judg­ment … Read the rest

Remem­ber a few days ago when I was scoff­ing at how easy even the most dif­fi­cult Sudoku puz­zles were?

Now I’ve picked one rat­ed as easy and it’s got me stumped.… Read the rest

Sudoku seems very pop­u­lar these days, so I took the chance to try out a puz­zle in the Exam­in­er a cou­ple days ago. The dif­fi­cul­ty rat­ing was one star out of five and it sur­prised me how dif­fi­cult the puz­zle was.

As I got stumped on the last few squares I glanced back at the instruc­tions and real­ized that there was a third aspect. I’d neglect­ed to real­ize that each 3×3 box con­tained each dig­it as well as each … Read the rest

I got a job­seek­er newslet­ter that rec­om­mend­ed the “col­or test” along­side oth­er psy­cho­log­i­cal pro­file tests like the Myers-Brig­gs and Keirsey Tem­pera­ment Sorter. This one asked me to pick box­es of dif­fer­ent col­ors and made judg­ments about my per­son­al­i­ty based on the order in which I chose the boxes.

Odd.

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Splicer’s Existing Situation

Work­ing to cre­ate for him­self a firm foun­da­tion on

For a while I’ve been com­ing down on myself for let­ting my motor­cy­cling get in the way of my run­ning. I’ve put weight back on, and as I’ve been get­ting back to a run­ning sched­ule this year I’ve been bemoan­ing the con­di­tion­ing that I lost. 2005 was pret­ty much wast­ed for run­ning as I logged approx­i­mate­ly 60 miles total. So com­ing back into it I’ve been com­par­ing myself to where I was at the end of 2004.

It just … Read the rest

Vic­to­ry

Final­ly I got my SGI sys­tem run­ning! It took four SCSI CD-ROM dri­ves, two sets of install media and four years, but there it is, ful­ly operational.

Well, except that I haven’t quite got­ten it to see the net­work yet.… Read the rest

Las Vegas is a weird and scary place, as far as I can tell from the airport.… Read the rest

My moth­er sent me this book months ago, long before my dis­sat­is­fac­tion at work result­ed in the loss of my job. It’s a col­lec­tion of true sto­ries of peo­ple who have wres­tled with the Big Question.

This is per­son­al and authen­tic jour­nal­ism. Bron­son does not pre­tend that he does­n’t exist and tells us when he thinks that just talk­ing to him might have influ­enced the peo­ple he inter­viewed. The book con­tains a wide vari­ety of per­son­al his­to­ries that he uses … Read the rest