Archive for February, 2010
February 28, 2010 at 10:17 pm · Filed under Ramblings
There’s an old joke about two campers in the woods. They see a bear approaching and one guy starts putting on his running shoes. The other guy goes, what are you crazy? You can’t outrun a bear. The guy with the running shoes replies, I don’t have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you.
It’s a silly joke but there’s a story there that I’m starting to realize. I don’t have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun the other guy.
Too often, I don’t start or do things because I don’t believe I can be the best or I set my goals too high. But reaching a smaller goal is better than reaching no goal and sometimes, just out running the other guy is good enough.
February 22, 2010 at 6:11 pm · Filed under Ramblings
I’m not sure when it happened but I’ve been getting into fashion lately and shoes specifically recently.
I’ve been looking for a pair of wingtips. So much I don’t know about shoes. I had to figure out what open vs closed lacing meant. Surprisingly, I found the answer on knol.
http://knol.google.com/k/open-and-closed-laced-men-s-dress-shoes
February 21, 2010 at 9:48 pm · Filed under Ramblings
I keep thinking about it every time I read the Sunday comics but I keep forgetting to post about it.
Why is Cathy the comic still around. I wonder what the demographic of the comic is and haven’t people gotten bored of it?
I’m sure there’s a better comic out there, how is Cathy still around?
February 9, 2010 at 11:06 pm · Filed under Ramblings
I’ve never been good with todo lists but I tend to do pretty well with checking emails and managing my life that way. I’ll send myself reminders to do stuff in email and leave it unread.
I’m trying out a new system for that though because I just had too many emails in my inbox. I’m gotten down to inbox zero and I’m looking into a 3 folder system or a 5 folder system.
Just having an empty inbox so far has been quite liberating and it was quite a fun exercise going through 6 years of old emails and archiving them. It was almost like looking at old pictures. Remembering what was happening at that point in my life and thinking about what has changed since.
February 8, 2010 at 6:39 pm · Filed under Ramblings
I’m usually not a fan of syntax highlighting. The colors just throw me off. But I spent about 30 minutes today hunting down a bug because I missed a quote.
It took me 30 seconds with emacs font-lock-mode on. So I’m turning it back on for now and I’m going to try to get used to it.
