Friday, May 31, 2002
77189678:: 10:31 AM

good night, abacus house.

Saturday, May 25, 2002
76965146:: 11:51 AM

Last night I had my last poetic alchemy show in Ithaca. Good turnout, and there'll be some pictures on the pA site soon enough :: once all the graduation hubbub has passed.

Tuesday, May 14, 2002
76559416:: 6:57 PM

the meaning of life?

76531094:: 3:02 AM

"Remember how long thou hast been putting off these things, and how often thou hast received an opportunity from the gods, and yet dost not use it. Thou must now at last perceive of what universe thou art a part, and of what administrator of the universe thy existence is an efflux, and that a limit of time is fixed for thee, which if thou dost not use for clearing away the clouds from thy mind, it will go and thou wilt go, and it will never return. "

Marcus Aurelius says: stop procrastinating!

Thursday, May 09, 2002
76373134:: 4:17 PM

As I read the HP Epitaph, a man across the street listens to old jazz on a little stereo. The piano and trumpet intertwine, and speak to a time not far from when HP was founded in 1938. The Epitaph is to the point reminds one of the days before IPOs and career CEOs. HP was a company that was built in simple and honest principles. It cared for its employees and earnestly tried to create good products. Compare this to "modern" companies like Siebel with its semi-annual 5% performance based layoff plan, or Enron with its bookcooking strategies, or Phillip Morris with its public relations dodges... ...its worth wondering whether ethics can coexist with modern business.

A couple months ago at colloquium the CEO of AMP(largest manufacture of physical connectors for electronics) presented. He worked his way up through the company from being a lowly engineer. What surprised me was that for a CEO he was incredible earnest and straightfoward. None of the slickness of modern CEOs who know that good or bad they'll slink away to another company with millions in hand within a couple years. He gave the most straightfoward and inspiring career advice I'd ever heard :: it was simply to focus on people: be a good person, be good to your fellow employees and be good to your customer. ... all this in a time when every other source of career advice says to push your own agenda. Good things to remember now that I'm going back to work. :p

Wednesday, May 08, 2002
76331093:: 8:58 PM

Here's an exerpt from the SONY my little Vaio site:
"The imagination it loads the prejudice function of the extent which is not attached from that compact body. Removing from the bag, you can use directly. It can enjoy casually, it is birth of biology."

???

Tuesday, May 07, 2002
76266289:: 9:26 AM

I got a pretty cool microscope ($48) that hooks up to my computer through USB. Upon installing, the program created a new start menu folder called: "Intel® Play(tm) QX3(tm) Computer Microscope." Honestly, is there any reason to string so many trademark symbols on anything?! Moreover, I had no idea that Intel owns the word "Play"? :p

Anyway, I've summarily renamed it: "Microscope."