“COMFORT IS THE GOAL OF LIFE”
This is a pervasive and sinister belief that has – at times – caused me to compromise more than I should. When I aspire to comfort as the greatest goal of life, I refuse anything that might cause me pain or hardship, even if that means I have to abandon my pursuit of true north.
It is struggle that gives life its meaning, and the pauses and blessings that punctuate its landscape. Sometimes that struggle is against self and the laziness that craves only comfort. The creative process is a personal assault on the beachhead of apathy, and to succumb to the path of comfort is to turn our backs on the greatness that is on the other side of sacrifice. I refuse to allow comfort to be my ambition. Comfort is often the enemy of greatness.
via Five Lies I No Longer Believe | TODD HENRY.
RANT::CTC FU
I’ve been very productive the past few days. It seems CTC the job is not as productivity draining as I originally imagined.
I’m CTCing because our clients are inflexible, indecisive, stubborn, know it alls, whose word is law.
No matter if they actually know less of the repercussions of their decisions.
If this continues I may have to find a new job.
TODO::Mint12-Netboot-Thinclient – Miles Burton – Innovative engineering for pretty much anything
Introduction
This guide is based upon the [Ubuntu ThinClient guide]. If you would like to setup a fully fledged diskless Mint 12 installation then this guide may be for you.
via Mint12-Netboot-Thinclient – Miles Burton – Innovative engineering for pretty much anything.
Will have to try this after I get a new laptop and have a spare computer for this.
FTS 2012 01 02
FTS in my definitions is Fuck That Shit or Fuck This Shit, the words are too common and near for the win that they probably are widely used,
The rant today is due to having two managers to report to.
Two managers with different management styles who seem to never talk to each other.
Two managers who need to be reminded that you have other deliverables.
This is a recipe for mediocrity. Having to do lots of stuff with almost the same deadlines.
Let it be said that I don’t actually hate my managers far from it. It’s the situation that we are all in that is the reason for this. Fuck This Shit.
One day when the FTS days get too often too much the FTS becomes FTS I Quit.
Happy New Year 1 day late
Happy New Year!!!!
2012 Regular Holidays and Special Non-Working Days
Got this memo from the HR department.
Date : December 06, 2011
To : ALL EMPLOYEES
From : HR Department
Re : 2012 Regular Holidays and Special Non-Working Days
_____________________________________________________________________
Below are the regular holidays and special non-working days for the year 2012 per
Proclamation No. 295
Regular Holidays:
January 1 – New Year’s Day (Sunday)
April 5 – Maundy Thursday
April 6 – Good Friday
April 9 – Araw ng Kagitingan (Monday)
May 1 – Labor Day (Tuesday)
June 12 – Independence Day (Tuesday)
August 27 – National Heroes Day (Last Monday of August)
November 30 – Bonifacio Day (Friday)
December 25 – Christmas Day (Tuesday)
December 30 – Rizal Day (Sunday)
Special Non-working Days:
January 23 – Chinese New Year (Monday)
August 21 – Ninoy Aquino Day (Tuesday)
November 1 – All Saints Day (Thursday)
November 2 – Additional special (non-working) day (Friday)
December 31 – Last Day of the Year (Monday)
Special Holiday (for all schools)
February 25 – EDSA Revolution Anniversary (Saturday)
Eid Il Fitr, or the end of Ramadan will be declared upon the recommendation of the Office of Muslim Affairs.
First thoughts would be lots of long weekends, what we get for the dearth of long weekends this year. Yahoo! Must book flights now!!!
Props to the Google Reader and Google Plus team
I track myself a lot and over the past few weeks since the redesign of google reader I’ve been using it considerably less. I really enjoy sharin stuff with my google reader friends and I read a lot of diverse things turning off the social features were a real bummer.
But old habits die hard. I was pleasantly surprised how well sharing to google plus from google reader is, save from the fact that a modal dialog popup is really not my thing using the old keyboard shortcut for sharing that has been imprinted to my muscle memory allowed me to discover this “new” feature almost by instinct. The integration with google plus also allows me to share stuff I know people from specific circles I have would be interested in. Wow, I really was beginning to think that the google social stuff are beginning to lead google towards irrelevancy but it seems that they actually knew what they were doing. If this goes on and facebook continues to impede fuck up my stream, I might just have to delete it and just say to people I don’t have a facebook account, find me in google plus!!!!!
TED: Britta Riley: A garden in my apartment
I’ve dreamed of having a farm for a long time. I’ve even periodically looked at the prices of lands in different provinces, sketched what I could probably do with it, etc. In short it is one of those long time projects that I will do when I have the capital to spend. For now the knowledge is what I’m building up on.
One of the realizations of this is that as long as the peace and order situation of a lot of undeveloped provinces outside metro manila is resolved farming on the classic sense is just not feasible. Most endeavors have a minimum viable size and the minimum viable size for a classic farm is the size that attracts rent seekers such as govt officials or the parallel govt in impoverished provinces the secessionist.
A few months back I read from Marginal Revolutions blog (If memory serves me right) that Sweden or at least European country you would least expect is a net exporter of food stuffs because its advanced chemical and electronics industry allowed it to go into hydrophonics in a big way. I filed this under study for your farming dreams and also under the fuck if we only had competent leaders we would probably be exporting food again.
While watching this TED talk for some reason tears were coming, I’ve probably been very happy these past days and to see something like this wow, TG. Damn I’ve been very lazy lately. This is only the beginning.
Musings on a thing on the Checklist
I’ve just dissuaded a couple of officemates thinking of getting training from an it training center from a school that I am ambivalent towards.
I did this with a heavy heart because a part of me feels like a traitor. The part of me that won was the part that cared towards other people. The part that wouldn’t shut up if you didn’t at least try to steer people towards a better outcome.
This has brought to my attention a dearth of great IT training places in the Philippines. I’ve always had a school as part of the checklist. What can one do?
Have to research the IT training programs available locally.
Sasha Dichter: The Generosity Experiment
Sasha Dichter: The Generosity Experiment from TED Blog on Vimeo.
Loved watching this video.