This is far too perfect. This infographic sums up my phone’s activity pretty darn well.
Another one from xkcd.com
Category: Personal Reflections
Lessons learned about life; pearls of wisdom I’ve gleaned through pain, failure and honest reflection
We Quibble And Quarrel, Ignoring The Fire Around Us
I’m surrounded by dissention, anger and invective. It makes me want to scream.
There are so many critical discussions, history making decisions that we need to make as a society and as a species.
Why do we seek out, aggressively, so many petty things with which to bicker and squabble over? I watch, time and time again, people waste monumental energy over the minor and leave the critical ignored.
Perhaps it’s easier, and less frightening, to engage with the petty than with the important. It’s also useless.
Oh, surveyors can cause great pain
While talking with a doctor acquaintance about a building he was developing, surveyors came up. When the full block was developed, a sewer easement was granted across one part of the property. During actual construction, the easement was marked incorrectly and the utilities were installed outside of the granted easement. Fortunately for all involved, since the city and the developer wanted to move them to another side of the building where they had full access (no easement required) it turned into a non-issue. It has the potential of becoming a legal horror fest.
It might be easy to minimize the work of surveyors, and their work, when done well can become invisible to the average person. However, for me, quality survey work is beautiful. It can make my job monumentally easier. More importantly, sloppy survey work can creatr kinds of time consuming problems.
So my hats to good surveyors!
A Quote About Time
A good thing to remember. I struggle with this far too often. What about you?
A Lovely Autumn Morning
The trees change colors. Air cools. Autumn arrived, the season evolves. My sweaters, which delight me so, call to me. Content wells within me.
How To Become A Gentleman
I find this message compelling. I’m not sure how it got into my head, but becoming a “gentleman” has been an aspiration of mine for as long as I can remember. I’ll need to write more about what that meant, and now means, to me. It’s a concept that’s evolved over the years.
Anyway, got this from Pinterest. Enjoy!
A Music Video Recommendation For You
This is by a good friend of mine, and I’ve really enjoyed this tune. Perhaps I’m a bit biased, but I think it’s worth a listen…or two…or 10…or….
What do you think?
Do you have any recommendations? I’m always looking for new and interesting music. Leave me a comment, if you’d be so good!
Cheers!
A Day In Front Of My Computer
Zany days. A 2 hour meeting in the morning disrupted everything. Not too uncommon, but it can be discomforting. Today, though, it was good. My team gave me a ton of space, so I was able to tunnel in and make AutoCAD sing. Well, to the best of my ability, at least. I’ve grown massively with my CAD skills, but I see a huge amount of growth out there.
Hours passed quite quickly, I was focused and in my zone. I love that feeling and really relish those moments I get to dive in like that. No distraction…focus! That is my happiest place!
With that, music really helps me deeply dive into focus. I pulled together a decent playlist on Google music based on Ghost in the Shell and Attack On Titan soundtrack elements, Then, this evening, I stumbled upon Maddy Meyers. This album below is exactly what I would’ve loved to queued up. So, it’ll just need to be tomorrow’s. For I expect focus will be important then, too.
Oh, teriyaki!
Oh teriyaki
Seattle’s taste sensation
Such beautiful food!
I Received A Phishing Phone Call Today: Beware, My Friends
This afternoon my office received a phone call from “800”. I had just finished one project and was reviewing my notes when this popped up. In a good place to deal with random distraction, I opted to grab the call. As the tech-savviest of my office mates, I’m glad I got this one.
Female Robot Voice: “Your Windows license has expired and your account has been compromised…” at which point, I hung up. Now, a malicious part of me thought I should’ve played this up and trolled the phisher, but, no. I do have a ton of real work to do. Stuff that brings money into the company. But I really did want to disturb these creeps.
It’s not the first of these phishing phone calls I’ve received, just the first one like this one. Different verbiage, different delivery mechanism, but, in the end, the same deal.
So, no, this isn’t legit. No, Microsoft isn’t monitoring YOUR computer. Oh, and Windows licenses don’t “expire”. Last but not least, whether it’s a phone call or a pop-up on your browser, your machine probably isn’t compromised. Exception: if the antivirus software YOU installed is telling you this, it might be legit. In that case, along with anything repeatedly popping up on your computer, consult an expert.