Random Quotes from the PDA [3]...

[ written during a meeting in which a colleague received a phone call from his son's school and left to go and pick him up. the meeting went on better without him. ]

Donate something to the gene-pool! If you can't, at least be sure to avoid
leaving any offspring. This way the future is given a higher probability
of progressing. If each family is a boat, then to move forward they need
to cut their anchors.

[ written during a company sponsored dinner. a group of people were playing boggle. a man was getting very passionate during the game and started verbally abusing the competition. one by one the players left the game. i decided to compete against him. i took his ridicule silently but utterly destroyed him in competition. he got drunk made an ass of himself and was fired the next week. ]

Don't think that you are ever better than another... But what should
be done when you witness a person acting better than another? You really
can't put that person in their place because who are you to talk. Some
excel in a few activities and influence their social circles to spend time
focused on those specific activities. And when they exhibit superior
skills they gloat and brag as an unconscious defense mechanism to help convince
themselves of their superiority and bolster their ego. If you expose them
to their own motives they deny them and say they were just kidding around, and
try to make the exposer out to be a spoiled sport. Somehow they expect
everyone else to be submissive and take their razing. But if you try to
resist they strike at your other weaknesses; teasing you about your ethnicity,
your occupation, your hometown, your partner. Nothing is off limits to
them. If you call them on their rudeness, they say that intimidating the
competition is a part of the game. They confuse intimidation with
aggrivation. They also conveniently forget the dozens of activities in
which they would lose. Those don't apply because for them, their egos
depend solely upon the present game.

[ i was asked by a "friend" at work to take on a small project as a personal favor. this was given to me at the end of the week and i was rushed to finish it along with my own work. it turned out that i left a critical, yet obvious error slip by. i delivered it and left for the weekend. on monday this "friend" was called on the error and stated that i was the developer. he then fixed the obvious error and furnished the finished project in minutes. he was applauded for the turn around while i lost face. afterwards he acted like he did me a favor.]

We waste these few precious moments we have to perform suspicious and imposed
tasks, that we are not privileged to know either the meaning nor the motives,
and still if we happen to summon the courage to object we are threatened with
exile and shame; a risk worthy to those of pure heart and free mind. With
every mistake, someone is responsible for its correction and the one responsible
for the former, for the sake of good form and character, is oblidged to honor
the one responsible for the correction, even if that person is responsible once
removed. The one in err must honor the other and submit to the latter's
will. If this does not occur the fallacious loses face, adorns shame and
would likely loose the respect of contemporaries and peers, and in turn would be
shunned. So one either must be willing to not act, or, under the
circumstances where mistakes are made, must be willing to abandon acquaintances
in order to maintain any strength of character. Even friendships must be
considered potentially expendable.

[ this was actually about my girl's bathroom. she doesn't fix her makeup in there but her sister does. ]

Bathroom...Although she was well groomed and always smelled wonderful her
bathroom was a pig sty. If there was ever a towel in it, it was usually on
the floor and never hanging up. Her soap dish was filled with water so
that if you dared to use the soft slimy soap you'd have to fish for it through
the cloudy liquid. The sink was lined with a fine film of flesh colored
powder as though a person burst into dust spontaneously while brushing their
teeth.

[ this was written in regards to a job opportunity received from a company that offered more money but was a further drive. anecdotally, i haven't gotten a raise in a long time. ]

Sure there may be better things out there, in fact I know there are, but in
order to get those better things I would have to give up something that I've
already got, and to do that would cause more pain than I'm willing to
endure. So I will maintain the status quo and put up with something less
than perfect by telling myself that in time it will get better... Too bad
I can't swallow my doubt and believe myself.

[ upon waking up from an extremely lucid dream, i grabbed my pda and jotted down whatever came to my mind. ]

Look for the hominim Pink Floyd albumn from the dream
The projector was
on the wall.
Lost my breaks going down to the lake
Crashed on the
beach
I was in a real world episode
I have been reborn!
Welcome back Carver... Not an accident...

[ that same night later on. i must've ate something bad. ]

A song I woke up singing (shouting) after a trippy dream...
Lay back and take your pill
You know you had your fill
Lay back and take a spill
You're gonna be alright

[ written about serendipity. i came upon an ingenious concept when i didn't have anything to record the idea upon. it later slipped out of memory and lost to oblivion. ]

You are a muse that illicits the greatest inspiration and then binds me in
shackles and throws me into prison with nothing upon which to record my
thoughts.

[ written after reading the last dostoevsky novel i had yet to read. i was quite impressed. ]

The art of writing reached the summit of achievement in the decades preceding
the advent of radio. Certain environmental conditions existed for one to
make such a bold statement.

They are as follows:

The industrial revolution and progressivism allowed for the increased efficiency of workers, which allowed for less people needed to perform work and the latter lobbied for all people to learn how to read.

The printing press enabled publication to a mass audience.

The primary source of entertainment was papers, magazines, periodicals, leaflets and serials.

This entertainment was inexpensive and widely available.

The publishers paid better than dangerous labor jobs, so people competed
for the eye of the people.

Since a wide audience was at stake, there were a great deal of competitors rivaling each other and always required to maintain an edge in order to be able to make a living as a writer.

Writing was the only art form where one was able to need only their mend, pen and paper to compete.

[ a position above me opened up and many of the tech staff were considered to fill it. this was written during the interview evaluations. ]

It is to everyone's advantage to appear to be less intelligent than they
actually are (when one is outside of intellectual fields, and even then displays
of intelligence should be subject to scrutiny). So for one to compensate
for this social phenomenon, an adjustment in perception is called for; people
must consider everyone to be considerably intelligent. This way you don't
fall prey to underestimating any potential competition.