News & Christmas
News
Hmmm suppose I’ve not posted anything in about a month… truth be told I’ve not picked the camera up in as long. It’s sitting there in the bag unused, untouched, and unloved. Maybe I’ll pick it up again soon.
Truth be told I’ve been pre-occupied. Somewhere along the way it occurred to me that the ROI (Return On Investment ) on photography for me is mostly metered out in “Soul” points. Ultimately soul points aren’t going to buy me a house, or let me travel the world. But there is something that will. I went looking at jobs the other day and noted that with a little more training I could easily kick my income over 100K ( that’s lower middle class here in Silicon Valley ) if I just added a few things to my “Acccomplishments” and “Working Knowledge Of”, list. So I’ve been knee deep in JAVA technolgoies like JSF, Hibernate, and Spring. I expect it’ll take about 3-6 month before I’m at the level where I’m comfortable looking for job, I like being and expert before I’m hired.
Also of the mind that it might be time to go back and get an eddummbmicasion. I don’t like not being to able to hold a meaningful conversation with the smartest person around me… unfortunately I’m surrounded by Mathemeticians and Computer Scientists with Ph.D.’s in obscur and abstract concepts that can’t really be communicated in human languages. ( most of them don’t speak human very well either ). Had my first experience in a long time where I was in a room with about 4 other people and didn’t understand a single thing they were saying. I find this unacceptable. So I’m picking up mathematics where I left off, trigonometry. I’m working through a friends text book right now and will likely go back to school for either math or comp sci the quarter after next.
Trig is not easy and along with the JAVA isnt’ leavin alot of time for photography. Though from the looks of it, it may help me get better at it.
Also I’ve popped a blog up on my site. And copying my Journal entries from here into my blog. This will be my last “Long” journal entry here. It just doesn’t make sense to put my journal entires into a system I can’t export them from.
Have you seen Battle Star Galactica yet? Holly shit. Talk about good TV. Just pulled the whole thing off iTunes.
Anyway I stop in quite often and gaze at ya’ll photos… not going away… just exploring other worlds at the moment.
Christmas t’s good that people can talk about being nice to each other once a year and I’ll even spend a day giving props to the Son of a God I don’t believe in, just because for the most part he seems like an alright guy. But XMAS has become more a matter of stress, anger, conflict, and commercialism than a celebration ( of any kind ). People trampling each other to buy gifts they can’t otherwise afford, families gathering and faking niceties for the day, mostly so they can spend the next month dishing dirt about each other, fights breaking out in parking lots, credit card bills going through the roof, and FOX new declaring war on XMAS.
I’ve read the 4 Gospels ( actually about 7 of them ) and I can’t believe even for a second that the Christ would have condoned this hysteria and especially not in his name. 85% of America calls itself Christian, so to say that the holiday is being manipulated by other forces and turned into a holiday of greed and consumerism by “them” is just silly. Those evil forces are Christians, those evil forces are all of us Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Pagan or Atheist. We have turned a celebration into something ugly, WE have turned something peaceful and heartfelt into something chaotic and shallow. Perhaps, just perhaps, it’s time we stop doing that.