Don't worry folks... I haven't forgotten about you. I have just had so much homework and research latley that I haven't had the time to really post anything. Please be patient, I'm not sure if I have any real fans who are starving for a juicy morcel of my writing but... if there is anyone who misses my posts. I have a decent one coming very soon.
The origin of the hippopotamus' name is greek; loosely translating to river horse or water horse. The animals natural habitat is land and water... it's amphibious! Its sexual preference is heterosexual and often hordes females in a harem-like group and fends off approaching males which may threaten the hippo's relationship with the females. Although its wild-life behavior seems similar a Sultan or a rapper the hippo's public service efforts are quite diplomatic.
Well it has finally happend, I have run out of interesting things to say. More often then not I have interesting things to say and write but just not enough time to post it. Well just the opposite is the case today and has been nearly all week. I have completely run out of interesting things to share. I would like to ask my slashdot friends for suggestions... what would you guys like to hear?
I have noticed many
This excerpt is from an essay that I am currently reading by Rene Descarte entitled Discourse on Method.
"Histories make men wise; poets, witty, the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend" (Bacon).
I'm Meditating on Sir Francis Bacon's essay "Of Studies" and considering, at which of the 6 studies am I most skillful. If I were to place them in order... I think it would look like this:
The Club of Rome is a global think tank and centre of innovation and initiative. As a non-profit, non govermental organisation (NGO), it brings together scientists, economists, businessmen, international high civil servants, heads of state and former heads of state from all five continents who are convinced that the future of humankind is not determined once and for all and that each human being can contribute to the improvement of our societies.
"It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct judgment regarding our own, and be prevented from thinking that everything contrary to our customs is ridiculous and irrational, -- a conclusion usually come to by those whose experience has been limited to their own country" (Descartes).
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." (Cosby)
True story!
"Being a father... I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is rather abstract business" (Coetzee).
J.M. Coetzee couldn't have written it better... in my experience, being a father is truly abstract business. Most of the time I feel like the Moon in orbit around the Sun (Mommy). Hmmm... I always thought it was supposed to be the other way around, at least that's what astrology and society tell us.
Yeah... 3 comments I feel like a kid at Christmas (or Eid in my case)
I MUST BE REALLY BORING... I GET NO COMMENTS. Oh well *sigh*
"The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless." (Plato)
I feel strongly connected to this passage, firstly because I read, listen and recite its premise several times per day. In my own life I have experienced being puffed up in the glamour of discourse, my own and otherwise, only to beckon the wrath of The Abaser. As a result I've learned to quickly exhale when unjustly puffed.
I'm going to start regulary posting quotes from things I'm currently reading, mostly literature, however it could include a movie or song. I may even include a little blurb to get the comments started... that is if anyone finds the things I post interesting.
After hearing NYUs plans to restructure the Applications Development Program in the Fall 2006, I was wondering if I should go back to Oracle. I have worked on a few Oracle projects and did some training for an Oracle Certification with a company called Smartechs.org but I didn't really dig the DBA-thing. Now that programming (Java, etc.) is looking bleek maybe I should think about bus
Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should.
