Rosary

"The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything."

- John Irving

Fri Apr 18
Attack of the 10-foot Susie!!!
Attack of the 10-foot Susie!!!
Wed Apr 16
Me n’ Sattva, sittin on the dock, basking in the sunshine, wastin time…
Me n’ Sattva, sittin on the dock, basking in the sunshine, wastin time…
Tue Apr 15

Random thought

It is my sincerest hope and dream that all living creatures will be able to live peacefully and happily, that the four-legged creatures will have room enough to roam and stretch their legs, a soft place to lay their head to sleep, healthy food to eat, good companions to play with, and feel no fear, no pain they can’t escape from. Same goes for the birds and the fish, small children, gentle-hearted people.
Tue Apr 8
It’s about solidarity, if I didn’t sign up, who would take my place? An effort like this can’t be successful if I don’t do my part to make it successful. And if one person out there reads an article today that makes them think twice before they throw their cigarette butt on the ground, then my part mattered.

- Nora Paul, director of the Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota, on Blog Action Day 2007.

(I am honored that this day happened to fall on my birthday. I would have it no other way!)

Blog Action Day 2007/8

Mon Mar 17
Girl and river. This was taken at the Hillsborough River State Park, near Tampa, Florida on March 1, 2008. 
Girl and river. This was taken at the Hillsborough River State Park, near Tampa, Florida on March 1, 2008. 

LiveJournal: Going the Way of the Dinosaur

Recently there has been a business decision - made by “management” aka SUP, the current owners of LiveJournal - to get rid of Basic (formerly “free”) Accounts. Many have spoken out against this decision, including LiveJournal’s advisory board, but management essentially turned a deaf ear on all of them and went ahead with the decision anyway. That was Wednesday, March 12.

Management then proceeded to put a spin on their decision, in the form of a comment left by the VP of Product Development for LiveJournal, Jason Shellen, on the original news post, as an “answer” (I use the term lightly, dear readers) to the outcry from those thousands of LiveJournal users (including members of the advisory board whose counsel went unheeded by management) who reacted to the news bit. Just read some of the comments there and you get the picture of what’s going on very clearly. That was March 13.

Just one day after the original news post, SUP issued another, formal news item solely as a response to all the negativity they encountered from the original post. Read it and the comments that follow, especially the first comment titled, “worst. idea. ever.” which has links to the posts made by a couple of LJ’s advisory board members, and you will see that LiveJournal is about to become the next victim in the long, long history of small businesses that get sold out to big companies that have nothing but dollar signs in their eyes.

Here’s my editorial: The more I think about it, the more I want to blame Brad Fitzpatrick for selling the company in the first place. And yet I don’t blame him, all at the same time. He’s got bills to pay, dreams to pursue, and in all honesty he probably had the best interests of LJ users at the front of his own business decisions the whole time. How was he supposed to know he signed a deal with the devil? Many times in life we get swindled - we get taken for a ride. And I think that’s what has happened to Brad Fitzpatrick. I don’t know Mr. Fitzpatrick from Adam, but I’m not stupid, I see what’s going on here. LiveJournal is in the middle of a political debacle right now, one that many don’t see any hope that it will survive.

One thing I can say for sure: SUP are a bunch of snakes, slithering, hissing, corporate snakes. The very worst kind, the Enron kind.

Beware - and stay far, far away if you can!

This entry cross-posted in LiveJournal, Blogger, Vox, MySpace and Facebook.

Sat Mar 15

Forgotten

I can’t believe I’ve let my precious tumblr. go by the wayside. I had such high hopes! It’s still young into the new year, and I will give my darling Rosary more attention! I will decorate with pictures and quotes and funny anecdotes …
Wed Oct 10
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity. Oliver Sacks, Neurologist and author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.
Tue Sep 11

Quitters make excuses.

Winners never quit.

Written on some girl’s hands in the “Your 3 Words” segment of iCAUGHT, ABC News, Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Wed Aug 15

Crossed Signals, a text message dialogue

  • Unknown Number: We had homemade pizza. Wit low carb flatbread. So fuckin good.
  • Me: Who are you?
  • Unknown Number: Who are you?
  • Me: U just sent me a text about the pizza.
  • Unknown Number: I did. My bad.
  • Me: Lol tis ok.
  • Unknown Number: How did that happen?
  • Me: If u typed in the number maybe u typed it in wrong? Otherwise crossed signals in the network I guess.
  • Unknown Number: Naw. It is under my list. My phone is possessed.
  • Me: At least the pizza was good! Lol
  • Unknown Number: Hell yeah