Haven’t been reading as much as I want; I found a copy of Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, and that has occupied too much time.  My conclusion is this:  Never play videogames again alone that don’t cause you to do physical work.  SMAC feels like work, a little, and there are the seratonin releasing “achievements.”  [...]

What has self righteousness cured, ever? More specifically, how many times has someone’s personal self righteousness won you over in an argument?  Is there anything an more repelling than self righteousness?  Is there anything that has been accomplished? Self righteousness is a trick that clouds our perception of everything.  Instead of focusing on maximizing pleasure, [...]

Man, I’ve got dozens of things that I’ve seen this week now that my reader is down to a managable 45 items. Basically, I stick everything I see and like into my Google Notebook, and then I figure out if it goes Here, on Ten Day Team, or somewhere else.  I’m going to soon [...]

  Fell off the wagon a little bit here, but got back on today. More to come.

Maybe…I’m a mess.  Absolutely true that I am a mess.  I say without self pity that there are seriously flawed–seriously unappealing components of my character and behavior.   That is to say, I’m like most people–a bundle of incongruities, hypocrisies, virtue and flaw. The primary reason then, that I don’t spend more time announcing and [...]

One thing every underachiever does is hides behind that excuse.  "I really COULD kick your ass if I wanted to," they start, "but that would require hours at the gym, exercise, devotion to training, and I wanna play Xbox."   I coulda written a great book, but I wanted to play poker. Life–and the whole [...]

"I’ll have to go stated," the guy on the other end other end of the phone said.    I was then given a list of demands from this individual, from coming to three houses he wanted to purchase  from a friend (for 25% more than comparable sales were going for) to the fact that he had [...]

In the mean time, Check out Adam Kontras and his journey. He’s just been talked into a WP blog. 

http://www.blogmaverick.com/ http://www.blogmaverick.com/2008/01/02/the-best-equity-is-sweat-equity/ More coming. 

My weight has reached some sort of terminal velocity.  This is the first year since 2001 that I haven’t put on at least 12 pounds.   At least.  I finished the year down a few from where I started, but the holiday eating fest was something that I did do.  So it’s time to lose my [...]