I have long been fascinated by classical music as performed by chambers, orchestras, and symphonies. Not only for the beautiful music produced, but for the focused coordination of multiple supremely talented artists, building on their several contributions to reproduce the vision of a single individual: the composer. Hours of practice apiece, daily over the course
I used to have a journal with me at all times, and would whip it out and jot a few things down whenever the opportunity presented itself. Doing this kept a single thread of consciousness alive and connected throughout the day as I would pick it back up, take it a little further through the
Were I ever to become President, Mike (the aforementioned office-mate) would become my Secretary or Minister or Whatever of “Keeping it Real.” Now to qualify this statement, Mike is not the sort of person one would immediately assume to be well grounded in normalcy, in the elements of reality which typically pessimistically govern existence. This
To me, a hallmark of professionalism is doing good work when the chips are down – and you really don’t want to. I’ve written good code in VisualBasic, MFC++, and various other Microsoft technologies. Not to appear zealous or anything, but I hate coding in those environments (for reasons I’m sure I’ll mention in other
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