One Year Later
So I've been at this zen Slog thing for over a year now... and not really achieving the primary goal sad to say. Or even the secondary goal. But keeping it active was a goal so that's all good. I really do need to get back to the whole software aspect though, which should be easier now I've mostly caught up on my photo sorting backlog. Hurrah!
Sunk Time Truthality
Sometimes I spend so much time researching a product I end up buying something just to make the time spent researching not a waste of time. 'cos otherwise I'm likely to just go and do the research again and then end up with the same dilemma. That's the problem of today; it's hard to believe anything in product specs or reviews. People can be wrong, mis-informed, lying, or just have different perspective/priorities to you. So IMHO you've gotta read the specs and read (...)
Wind up Wind down
Back on language? Yeah. But this one really did get me thinking. I was asked if I was going to sleep soon and I said something like "Yeah, I'm just winding up a few things." To my surprise I got the reply "Don't you mean 'wind down'".... and I'm not really sure what I said back as it's kinda interesting.
To me "wind up" is what I meant. To me it means finishing up, with the comparison being that you wind up clocks before (...)
Charity is not really my thing
As said before, I need the exercise. So when a charity step challenge was mentioned at work I figured..... sure, why not? But holistically I think it's gonna be a fail for me. But prove me wrong; here's a link to Starlight Super Steps
So why the negativity? Well mostly 'cos charity really isn't my thing. I see these organisations that run (...)
View to a wall
Stayed in a hotel recently and I was able to pick the room and floor online with the app. 13th floor. I thought "this'll be a good view of XX". I even brought a tripod. Seemed like a good plan. But nope. My view was to a neighbouring wall about a meter away.. If I got real close to the window and looked forward I could kinda see something. But not really.
I do wonder what's the point in this. A bad view, such as blocked (...)
So ten months later I've caught up
I got behind on photos some months ago, and it really just kept getting worse. But it's done. I'm actually caught up... kinda. I suspect I'm really not as to get to this point I've been ignoring other stuff like video work. But it's a point.
It's funny really. While I had the time to sort them a combination of having a lot to sort plus a computer that was inadequate to the task (no names; it was low end and if you buy (...)
Recreating eighties recording tech
Dual cassette decks used to be king. You'd copy your records (vinyls) to cassette so you could play it in your Walkman (huh, just realised how lame I am; I get annoyed at people saying iPod and here I am saying "Walkman"), or off the radio if you we're feeling cheap/naughty, and with the second deck you could make your own mixtapes from even other tapes. Did the Recording Companies care? Not too much as they knew you couldn't do a perfect copy; with each generation the quality degraded so (...)
More words on words
It's interesting how some terms become standard and then last beyond them making sense. Including a few that have multiple meanings so context is required. Like "record". It's main meaning is a permanent account, but it also means to make one, and there's the usage that covers phonographic discs. Thus recording a record on a record makes sense. 'course you could call the physical object a "vinyl"... but that requires context as well. Then you have words like "movie"; (...)
Your reality and your memory
One thing I find funny about being in the military is being repeatedly yoinked from your life plans to do defence plans. You just have to put much of your life on pause and jump into a new reality that has been imposed on you. What I find most interesting is after a few days you tend to fall into the new routine and your other life seems like a dream. (Or nightmare, depending on your perspective I suppose.) It's interesting really, and highlights how our different levels of (...)
Job Loss Job Gain
So yeah, I'm not a good runner and I have trouble maintaining my weight, fitness and health. But I tend to stay in shape more these days simply 'cos I have a job that requires me to. It's a bit lame really, but it's nice sometimes to have that extra push. It's like getting up in the morning. I used to find it harder, as I knew that getting to work early or even on time was not rewarded as working late (without compensation) was common so I started planning on working late. Not an issue in my (...)
