Month: September 2008

  • Fiance & Helvetica & Change of Perception.

    Lindsey said YES!  It was a wonderful night, and I went home exhausted.  In fact I was exhausted and had trouble sleeping for 3 days after.  I am very excited that we are finally moving into the next stages of our lives.

    At work today, we walked down to the America theater to watch the independent film Helvetica. It was a fascinating movie.  I enjoy opportunities to learn like this, especially about technology and design. 

    There seems to be a layer or layers underneath the my understanding of things that is always just out of reach.  It's a measure of complexity and rules that are beyond me, but somehow visible to the "masters" of each trade.  Somehow finding these details drives me to learn more.  I understand some of the books and stories that I read and studied when I was younger a lot more now through this sort of awareness. 

    For instance, reading again Musashi's Book of Five Rings is much more enlightening.  When first approached, a martial art such as his own could be construed as a simple matter of appropriate movements of the body at appropriate times.  However, each "master" of these arts seems to own a world of knowledge beneath each movement, even breath.  It's something you could read about, and talk about even, but until I had truly opened my eyes, I wasn't really understanding. 

    It is difficult to fully explain and articulate.  I will try more later.

    This movie was an example of this, though the process is something I've really been going through over the last year and a half, as I seem to narrow my life and career goals into something more concrete.  I guess this is just a stage one goes through in life.

    ashram

  • Tonight is THE night

    I have the ring.
    I have the proposal sonnet.
    I have her mother's blessing.
    I have special reservations at the restaurant.

    Now, I just have to get through my workday, get a quick haircut, and propose.  This is either going to be a very fast or very slow day.  I am probably not going to get any work done.

    Here's the sonnet:

    Now I pursue my destined twin,
    Vessel cast unto a darkened sea.
    Someone in nature so akin,
    Pillar's light calls safely down to me.

    Through hurricane or weeping gale,
    I seek the one to call my own.
    At journey's end, thus turn the sail
    And anchor at the port of home.

    Count seeking done and voyage made,
    With thee is peace of Noah's dove.
    I will rest all at willow's shade,
    Write food of stout and proper love.

    First a sonnet for deposing prose
    With ring and heart at last I do propose.

    ashram

  • Chrome

    Google released their new web browser today: Chrome.

    So far, I like it. The best way I can describe it is that it is minimalist. It has its clunky moments, but Hotmail and Gmail run impressively fast.

    Besides that bit of news, my day has been boring. I have one hour left of work. I got paid today, so that was good. I did do some large coding today, but I am hesitating to jump into fixing one of the larger bugs I have right now with only an hour left.

    Lindsey and I are hanging out after work. I am glad she has three days off this week. It's tough going from a free summer, to hardly seeing her because of her two jobs. I am really excited that she is doing well in her new one, though.

    ashram