There are a lot of companies out there named after animals, or that use an animal as their symbol.
I found a list online (linked below) that names the top seven animals used by companies as their symbol. A couple of the animals among their list are eagles and wolves; which I thought were rather obvious choices.
There were no mythical animals or creatures on the list at all, maybe they were just outside the list's parameters. But, I think there are a considerable number of businesses out there named after phoenixes and dragons.
I think the turritopsis nutricula would be an excellent symbol for almost any kind of business. It's unique, it's potentially immortal, and it stays relevant by reverting to an immature state before growing back into maturity.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Seven-Top-Animal-Symbols-Used-By-Company-Name-Generators&id=793718
Monday, May 23, 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
The Paperless World
I recently joined an online writer’s group and someone there started a discussion about “which do you write on first: paper or a computer?”
My first thought was “first? it’s 2011! Who still uses paper?” although I’ll admit I still do most of my brainstorming on paper; I like drawing circles and squares around my ideas and then connecting them with little web diagrams. But I don’t think I’ve actually written a complete sentence out long-hand in years.
Anyway, I added my two cents to the discussion, and here it is, (in a slightly edited and expanded form):
The entire world is slowly moving in the "paperless" direction, as it should be. I predict that within ten years, with the growth of the different types of eReaders and other technology out there, all paper, even paper copies of books, will be a thing of the past.
Is that a bad thing? No. Obviously it’s good for the environment; Less obviously it’s good for the logistics of books. By ‘logistics of books’ I mean that digital books are easier to produce, transport, purchase and store than hard books are. Reading, writing, editing, studying and purchasing (not to mention borrowing) digital books are completely different processes than they are for paper books. The technology we have today is simply ahead of our culture, and there is a whole new set of skills and ways of doing things that we need to develop.
There are a lot of people who get angry when the topic of paperless books gets brought up, and this is understandable; The act of reading and how one reads is a deeply personal and even a spiritual topic. However this passion is not born of one way being better than another, it is merely a form of nostalgia.
When the printing press was invented there were many people against it, mainly monks whose job it had been to copy out entire books and manuscripts long-hand. The traditions that surrounded the culture of copying books long-hand had permeated the lives of those involved, and it was nostalgia and the fear of change and the unknown, that prompted their resistance to that change. But despite this I think we would be hard pressed to find a good argument for copying books long-hand, rather than printing them today.
The same thing is true of any technological advance in communication, telegraph or telegram, telephone, email, texting, Instant messaging etc.
When the telephone was invented and began to be used on a widespread basis many people were against it as well, and argued that it was killing the art of conversation. I remember reading something a man wrote in the 1960's; He said he refused to talk on the phone because he couldn't see the other person's face and therefore couldn't tell how they really felt about the conversation. They could be rolling their eyes and silently mocking him the whole time. Is that a valid point? yes, but most of us don't let it stop us from using the phone, we have all learned the different sets of skills needed to talk on the phone and to talk with someone face to face.
The arguments, I believe, around using paper to write on are of a similar type as these I've just mentioned. Typing, even for someone who types with only two or three fingers, is faster and easier on your hands than writing with a pen. The ease with which one can edit with word processor programs is almost infinitely more efficient and effective than editing with pen and paper. I think writing and editing on a computer require a different set of skills, which take time and effort to learn; Such as saving and backing up your files, and organizing them effectively. But, to me, the question of using a computer to write and edit versus using paper is like comparing using a printing press to make hundreds of copies of a book versus using a small army of monks to do the same thing long hand.
However, at least one very good argument against writing and editing on a computer remains, and that is that staring at a monitor all day is hard on your eyes. This is a proven fact and a very real concern for writers, especially those who wish to spend most of their day writing. Until recently, technology has not had any solution to this problem. Computer monitors emit light, and no matter what color scheme you use or how you have the brightness or contrast set your eyes will get tired faster looking at emitted light (such as from a monitor) than they will looking at reflected light (such as from paper).
The technology eReaders use, however, has solved this problem. If you haven't already done so, go down to your favourite retailer and check out a kindle, or Sony eReader, or something similar. The screen does not emit light and is just like reading off paper. As soon as this technology can be translated to large monitors for computers, I think the last good argument for using paper for the printed word, at all, will have disappeared.
My first thought was “first? it’s 2011! Who still uses paper?” although I’ll admit I still do most of my brainstorming on paper; I like drawing circles and squares around my ideas and then connecting them with little web diagrams. But I don’t think I’ve actually written a complete sentence out long-hand in years.
Anyway, I added my two cents to the discussion, and here it is, (in a slightly edited and expanded form):
The entire world is slowly moving in the "paperless" direction, as it should be. I predict that within ten years, with the growth of the different types of eReaders and other technology out there, all paper, even paper copies of books, will be a thing of the past.
Is that a bad thing? No. Obviously it’s good for the environment; Less obviously it’s good for the logistics of books. By ‘logistics of books’ I mean that digital books are easier to produce, transport, purchase and store than hard books are. Reading, writing, editing, studying and purchasing (not to mention borrowing) digital books are completely different processes than they are for paper books. The technology we have today is simply ahead of our culture, and there is a whole new set of skills and ways of doing things that we need to develop.
There are a lot of people who get angry when the topic of paperless books gets brought up, and this is understandable; The act of reading and how one reads is a deeply personal and even a spiritual topic. However this passion is not born of one way being better than another, it is merely a form of nostalgia.
When the printing press was invented there were many people against it, mainly monks whose job it had been to copy out entire books and manuscripts long-hand. The traditions that surrounded the culture of copying books long-hand had permeated the lives of those involved, and it was nostalgia and the fear of change and the unknown, that prompted their resistance to that change. But despite this I think we would be hard pressed to find a good argument for copying books long-hand, rather than printing them today.
The same thing is true of any technological advance in communication, telegraph or telegram, telephone, email, texting, Instant messaging etc.
When the telephone was invented and began to be used on a widespread basis many people were against it as well, and argued that it was killing the art of conversation. I remember reading something a man wrote in the 1960's; He said he refused to talk on the phone because he couldn't see the other person's face and therefore couldn't tell how they really felt about the conversation. They could be rolling their eyes and silently mocking him the whole time. Is that a valid point? yes, but most of us don't let it stop us from using the phone, we have all learned the different sets of skills needed to talk on the phone and to talk with someone face to face.
The arguments, I believe, around using paper to write on are of a similar type as these I've just mentioned. Typing, even for someone who types with only two or three fingers, is faster and easier on your hands than writing with a pen. The ease with which one can edit with word processor programs is almost infinitely more efficient and effective than editing with pen and paper. I think writing and editing on a computer require a different set of skills, which take time and effort to learn; Such as saving and backing up your files, and organizing them effectively. But, to me, the question of using a computer to write and edit versus using paper is like comparing using a printing press to make hundreds of copies of a book versus using a small army of monks to do the same thing long hand.
However, at least one very good argument against writing and editing on a computer remains, and that is that staring at a monitor all day is hard on your eyes. This is a proven fact and a very real concern for writers, especially those who wish to spend most of their day writing. Until recently, technology has not had any solution to this problem. Computer monitors emit light, and no matter what color scheme you use or how you have the brightness or contrast set your eyes will get tired faster looking at emitted light (such as from a monitor) than they will looking at reflected light (such as from paper).
The technology eReaders use, however, has solved this problem. If you haven't already done so, go down to your favourite retailer and check out a kindle, or Sony eReader, or something similar. The screen does not emit light and is just like reading off paper. As soon as this technology can be translated to large monitors for computers, I think the last good argument for using paper for the printed word, at all, will have disappeared.
Monday, January 31, 2011
The Citizen of The World
I found a book in the U of A library called "The Citizen of The World", which is a phrase I have been Thinking about frequently as of late. The idea relates to the RSA's (Royal Society for the Arts, in England) new 'strapline' which is "21st Century Enlightenment". It is a very current idea for our times, very much in harmony with the zeitgeist of the new intelligencia, for the most part. It's probably obvious, but I'll explain it just in case: it means viewing the entire human race as equals, it's a call for an end to discrimination based on heritage or language or religion, or any other perceived difference. To view all Human beings as part of one Nation, one Family.
The book "The Citizen of The World" spells out all these ideals in a series of letters, purportedly written from a man in England to his friends in China. The most interesting part is that the book was written, by a man called Oliver Goldsmith, in the year 1760.
The book "The Citizen of The World" spells out all these ideals in a series of letters, purportedly written from a man in England to his friends in China. The most interesting part is that the book was written, by a man called Oliver Goldsmith, in the year 1760.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Approximately 25 Random things about me.
Updated 24 January 2011
1. I'm both a Pisces and Aquarius, having been born right on the cusp. Which I'm told explains a lot about me. It also means I can read the horoscope for both signs, although I rarely do. I don't believe in that sort of thing.
2. I once opened a fortune cookie that had 7 fortunes inside, all of them said something to the effect: you will be very successful in your career, or, new business opportunities will bring you great wealth. I'm still waiting... actually not really.
3a. I'm currently a student at the University of Alberta. Taking Elementary Education, minoring in Special Education.
3b. My last job was working for AMA (the Alberta Motor Association, the Alberta affiliate of CAA or AAA) I drove a "Battery Express" truck. I tested batteries and charging systems on peoples' cars, and if needed I sold and installed a replacement battery.
3c. With a couple of partners who are Occupational Therapists, I'm making Entertaining/Instructional videos for children, our goal is to make a series of videos that can be used either by themselves or as part of a regular behavioral program. Currently we're just developing a pilot video, we've spend several hours every week on the project with no immediate remuneration.
4. I eloped to the temple on January 2nd 2009.
5. I'm afraid of the dark, paralyzingly so. I can't enter a dark room, or walk through a dark house. When I was living in my parents basement (2 years ago) if I got home at night, I would turn on the light in the front entry, walk to the kitchen and turn on the light, go back to the front entry and turn off the light, walk through the kitchen to the basement stairs and turn on the light, turn off the light in the kitchen, walk to the bottom of the stairs and turn on the light in the basement family room, walk back up the stairs and turn off the stairs-light, walk back downstairs through the family room into the hall and turn on the light, go back to the family room turn of the light, walk back into and down the hallway, turn on the light at the far end of the hallway (which would remain on all night) then walk back and turn off the light at the other end, and go into my room, leaving the door partially open.
6. I had 3 sets of teeth. My baby teeth, I lost them and grew in a set of Adult teeth and molars. I then lost those, including the molars, and grew in another set of adult teeth and molars. I was losing teeth and growing new ones into my teens.
7. I have never broken a bone in my body, and for that matter I've never had stitches either, or any kind of wound that needed medical attention to heal.
8.the most expensive thing I have ever bought is a House, Second a new truck, the third most expensive thing was a $1200 computer.
9. I once bought a car for $75 dollars, drove it for a year and a half without having to spend anything on repairs, and then sold it for $40.
10a. Apart from my textbooks for school I'm currently reading "Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume 1." for the second time. It's good, it's like the movie with Robert Downey Jr., and NOT like the movies with Basil Rathbone.
10b. I recently read "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White. I Love It! Who would have guessed that a textbook could be so entertaining!
11. I have 20/400 vision, which means I see objects 20 feet away from me as clearly as most people see objects which are 400 feet away. In other words, without my glasses I'm quite blind.
12. My night-vision is even worse.
13. I once had a paraglider harnessed to my back, without the engine, and was tied by a rope to the back of a quad, and then I was flown like a kite, for about 2 minutes. Luckily there was about 3 feet of snow all around.
14. I have a big bin full of Lego that I don't let my kids play with. They have their own Lego.
15. I get along just fine with my Ex-wife. I barely even remember being married to her.
16. I haven't been sleeping well for the past few nights. I've been laying awake for several hours before falling asleep, Having disturbing dreams and waking-up several times during the night, and then waking up in the morning feeling quite unrested.
17. I'm 32 years old. I don't like birthdays, I prefer mine to pass unnoticed, but 31 and 32 weren't as bad as 30. My wife makes a big deal about birthdays and wants a big party, breakfast in bed, and festivities for a week.
18. My favorite book really is The Book of Mormon. I love it. I've read it several times and it never gets old.
19. I'm not nearly as thick-skinned as I seem, or as I used to be.
20. I like Woody Allen movies, haven't watched one in a very long time.
21. My Goal is to retire at fifty. So far, not likely, but I've got 18 more years, so...
22. I have no desire to visit Europe. Don't care about Paris or London, except 221 B Baker st. I'd make the trip just for that.
23. I have diagnosed myself with Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome, sometimes called Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder. What that means is that my body thinks the proper time to sleep is from about 4am until 11am. If I'm left to sleep at my own schedule, I'll go to bed at 4 and sleep until 11am everyday, I'll wake up refreshed and wake up without an alarm clock or anything. For me to sleep and get up at a "regular" time (for example 11pm until 6am) is similar to an average person trying to go to sleep at 6pm and waking up at 1am, you could do it once or twice but to do it day after day takes it toll. I can train myself to sleep at a regular time, but it takes me about three weeks of going to bed and getting up at the same time before I don't feel like a rabid zombie, and if I stay up late ONCE, I have to start all over again. I'd go to the doctor and get a real diagnosis, but there's not much point. From the stuff I've read there's no Cure or medication that will help, and the therapy to "reprogram" your internal clock involves "light therapy", which is not really an option for me due to item #5 on this list. Also they say for most people with DSPS its easier to just get a job where you can rearrange your life around a 4am til 11am sleep schedule.
24. I currently weigh 203 lbs. I'm in the middle of a Biggest Loser Competition with a friend of mine, which I am hopelessly losing. and by losing I mean not losing weight.
25.My highest value is Trust. I would rather be trusted than loved.
1. I'm both a Pisces and Aquarius, having been born right on the cusp. Which I'm told explains a lot about me. It also means I can read the horoscope for both signs, although I rarely do. I don't believe in that sort of thing.
2. I once opened a fortune cookie that had 7 fortunes inside, all of them said something to the effect: you will be very successful in your career, or, new business opportunities will bring you great wealth. I'm still waiting... actually not really.
3a. I'm currently a student at the University of Alberta. Taking Elementary Education, minoring in Special Education.
3b. My last job was working for AMA (the Alberta Motor Association, the Alberta affiliate of CAA or AAA) I drove a "Battery Express" truck. I tested batteries and charging systems on peoples' cars, and if needed I sold and installed a replacement battery.
3c. With a couple of partners who are Occupational Therapists, I'm making Entertaining/Instructional videos for children, our goal is to make a series of videos that can be used either by themselves or as part of a regular behavioral program. Currently we're just developing a pilot video, we've spend several hours every week on the project with no immediate remuneration.
4. I eloped to the temple on January 2nd 2009.
5. I'm afraid of the dark, paralyzingly so. I can't enter a dark room, or walk through a dark house. When I was living in my parents basement (2 years ago) if I got home at night, I would turn on the light in the front entry, walk to the kitchen and turn on the light, go back to the front entry and turn off the light, walk through the kitchen to the basement stairs and turn on the light, turn off the light in the kitchen, walk to the bottom of the stairs and turn on the light in the basement family room, walk back up the stairs and turn off the stairs-light, walk back downstairs through the family room into the hall and turn on the light, go back to the family room turn of the light, walk back into and down the hallway, turn on the light at the far end of the hallway (which would remain on all night) then walk back and turn off the light at the other end, and go into my room, leaving the door partially open.
6. I had 3 sets of teeth. My baby teeth, I lost them and grew in a set of Adult teeth and molars. I then lost those, including the molars, and grew in another set of adult teeth and molars. I was losing teeth and growing new ones into my teens.
7. I have never broken a bone in my body, and for that matter I've never had stitches either, or any kind of wound that needed medical attention to heal.
8.the most expensive thing I have ever bought is a House, Second a new truck, the third most expensive thing was a $1200 computer.
9. I once bought a car for $75 dollars, drove it for a year and a half without having to spend anything on repairs, and then sold it for $40.
10a. Apart from my textbooks for school I'm currently reading "Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume 1." for the second time. It's good, it's like the movie with Robert Downey Jr., and NOT like the movies with Basil Rathbone.
10b. I recently read "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White. I Love It! Who would have guessed that a textbook could be so entertaining!
11. I have 20/400 vision, which means I see objects 20 feet away from me as clearly as most people see objects which are 400 feet away. In other words, without my glasses I'm quite blind.
12. My night-vision is even worse.
13. I once had a paraglider harnessed to my back, without the engine, and was tied by a rope to the back of a quad, and then I was flown like a kite, for about 2 minutes. Luckily there was about 3 feet of snow all around.
14. I have a big bin full of Lego that I don't let my kids play with. They have their own Lego.
15. I get along just fine with my Ex-wife. I barely even remember being married to her.
16. I haven't been sleeping well for the past few nights. I've been laying awake for several hours before falling asleep, Having disturbing dreams and waking-up several times during the night, and then waking up in the morning feeling quite unrested.
17. I'm 32 years old. I don't like birthdays, I prefer mine to pass unnoticed, but 31 and 32 weren't as bad as 30. My wife makes a big deal about birthdays and wants a big party, breakfast in bed, and festivities for a week.
18. My favorite book really is The Book of Mormon. I love it. I've read it several times and it never gets old.
19. I'm not nearly as thick-skinned as I seem, or as I used to be.
20. I like Woody Allen movies, haven't watched one in a very long time.
21. My Goal is to retire at fifty. So far, not likely, but I've got 18 more years, so...
22. I have no desire to visit Europe. Don't care about Paris or London, except 221 B Baker st. I'd make the trip just for that.
23. I have diagnosed myself with Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome, sometimes called Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder. What that means is that my body thinks the proper time to sleep is from about 4am until 11am. If I'm left to sleep at my own schedule, I'll go to bed at 4 and sleep until 11am everyday, I'll wake up refreshed and wake up without an alarm clock or anything. For me to sleep and get up at a "regular" time (for example 11pm until 6am) is similar to an average person trying to go to sleep at 6pm and waking up at 1am, you could do it once or twice but to do it day after day takes it toll. I can train myself to sleep at a regular time, but it takes me about three weeks of going to bed and getting up at the same time before I don't feel like a rabid zombie, and if I stay up late ONCE, I have to start all over again. I'd go to the doctor and get a real diagnosis, but there's not much point. From the stuff I've read there's no Cure or medication that will help, and the therapy to "reprogram" your internal clock involves "light therapy", which is not really an option for me due to item #5 on this list. Also they say for most people with DSPS its easier to just get a job where you can rearrange your life around a 4am til 11am sleep schedule.
24. I currently weigh 203 lbs. I'm in the middle of a Biggest Loser Competition with a friend of mine, which I am hopelessly losing. and by losing I mean not losing weight.
25.My highest value is Trust. I would rather be trusted than loved.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
10 Mixed Movie Mash-ups: Seven Brides for Twelve Angry Men
Imagine a guy with a really warped sense of humor and way too much time on his hands (probably me)sitting at his computer in a basement somewhere and an idea strikes him like a surprize defibrilation from behind ("Clear!" BZZT!).
"What's the latest craze in pop music and at the clubs these days?" he asks himself.
"Mash-ups." he answers.
You know, when the DJ mixes two songs together to make something that sounds completely new. Sometimes the songs that are, as they say: "Mashed-up" (or "Mash-up-ed"?) are songs that already sound the same (like Ke$ha's "Tik tok" and Katy Perry's "California Gurls"), sometimes the songs are from different worlds (I heard a Mash-up of Christina Aguilera's "Genie in a bottle" and Sonic Youth's "Dirty Boots", it was surprizingly good).
"But why hasn't this same idea caught on in the movie biz?" crazy basement guy continues, "I mean, they re-make movies all the time, why not mix a couple plot's together while you're at it?"
If I really had a lot of time on my hands I'd go get some footage from these movies and mix them together to make trailers for these movie mash-ups.
Here's the next best thing; I'll write about the movie mash-ups, and you can imagine the announcer voice from the trailers reading these to you out loud.
10 Movie Mash-ups:
"What's the latest craze in pop music and at the clubs these days?" he asks himself.
"Mash-ups." he answers.
You know, when the DJ mixes two songs together to make something that sounds completely new. Sometimes the songs that are, as they say: "Mashed-up" (or "Mash-up-ed"?) are songs that already sound the same (like Ke$ha's "Tik tok" and Katy Perry's "California Gurls"), sometimes the songs are from different worlds (I heard a Mash-up of Christina Aguilera's "Genie in a bottle" and Sonic Youth's "Dirty Boots", it was surprizingly good).
"But why hasn't this same idea caught on in the movie biz?" crazy basement guy continues, "I mean, they re-make movies all the time, why not mix a couple plot's together while you're at it?"
If I really had a lot of time on my hands I'd go get some footage from these movies and mix them together to make trailers for these movie mash-ups.
Here's the next best thing; I'll write about the movie mash-ups, and you can imagine the announcer voice from the trailers reading these to you out loud.
10 Movie Mash-ups:
- The story of a family of share-croppers set in the 1930s. Forced to leave their home by the conditions of the great depression they accidentally arrive on the planet Seti Alpha 6 where they become pawns in Khan’s plans to exact revenge on Captain James T. Kirk of the starship Enterprise. The Grapes of Wrath of Khan.
- The story of a southern family in crisis, focuses on the turbulent marriage of Maggie and Brick Pollitt as their daughters get married one by one to successively less and less orthodox Jewish men. Fiddler on a Hot Tin Roof.
- After the death of one of America's top primates, one reporter tries to piece together the events that lead from Kong's simple beginnings on a secluded island to the giant-gorilla-billionaire-newspaper-tycoon’s fall from the top of the Empire state building. Citizen Kong.
- After an apparently open and shut murder trial, eleven jurors vote guilty, but one man who stands for truth and justice dissents and convinces the rest of the jurors to kidnap seven women and coerce them into marriage. Seven Brides for Twelve Angry Men.
- Stanley Orwell’s Dystopian classic, An autocratic government that rules a third of the earth faces destruction as the computer that controls everything, “HAL”, attempts to flush everyone into space. 1984: A Space Odyssey.
- With their father away fighting in the Civil War, Joe, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother who teaches them the ways of the Wu Dan; trouble arises when they steal the green destiny sword. Little Women, Hidden Dragon.
- Set During the civil war and reconstruction eras, Rhett Butler (Nicolas Cage) is forced to steal 50 cars in one night to save Scarlet O’Hara’s family plantation. Gone With the Wind in 60 seconds.
- Starring Billy Crystal as Dirty Harry, a hard-boiled police detective who has little regard for the rules, but gets results, and Meg Ryan as “Scorpio”, a sniper who terrorizes the city of San Francisco. When Dirty Harry met Sally.
- The night before “Princess Buttercup” (Robyn Wright-Penn) is to be married to prince Humperdink, she is kidnapped by 3 men from a neighboring kingdom, it is then up to Frankenstein (Boris Karloff) to rescue her. The Princess Bride of Frankenstein.
- The ultimate disaster movie; the effects of global warming escalate rapidly, unexpectedly plunging the world into a new Ice age, the change happens to coincide with a full scale Alien Invasion!! The Independence Day After Tomorrow.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
I facebooked your mom, and Googled myself... don't read too much into it...
I just googled my own name; for those of you from the Victorian era reading this by means of a medium or wizard of some sort, that means I went to this website http://www.google.ca/ and typed my own name into the search field. If you haven't done so recently, try it for yourself.
I found there is another Kris Hendricks who is a real estate professional of some kind in Seattle, another who is an Olympic bowling coach, there is a Kris Hendricks who is identified as an "agent" on website called KGBusa.com, there is a Kris Hendricks from Allentown, PA, who has a Facebook account and another Kris Hendricks who works in some capacity with water permits or development permits in and/or around phoenix Arizona.
I was already somewhat acquainted with this last Kris Hendricks as his or her email address is ludicrously similar to my own, and over the last several years I have received the occasional request to review this or that construction proposal and approve the sought after permits, which I have kindly done.
But in all seriousness, the thing that I found most interesting was that the 5th item that came up relating to my name was my old blog on myspace which if you're interested in wasting 15 to 20 minutes can be seen here: (the old blog has now been deleted, but it was boring anyway) the interesting thing about that is this; my MySpace profile didn't come up, my Facebook profile didn't come, Even this very blog I'm posting on right now doesn't come up until the 6th page, (I just checked again and for some reason this blog just moved up to the 2nd page... weird.) the last time I posted in that myspace blog was almost exactly a year ago, my last two posts there can be read in a matter of 3 or 4 minutes, and I found them quite entertaining, there's a short piece about George Orwell and Trent Reznor... I was going to plagiarize it and post it again here, but I'll just leave it there and put the link here, as I have already done.
If you haven't already deduced from my excessive rambling I'm typing this in the middle of the night, I'm practically sleep-blogging. I'll cut it short, but again, as I've promised several times, I'm actually working on something about George Orwell, and I'll soon post it. This one, however, does not include slanderous gossip about a certain modern industrial musician or profess visitations from the ghost of literature past, but it will delineate the connection between Our subject, Eric Arthur Blair, his literary predecessor and arch-nemesis Rudyard Kipling, the prophet of Imperialism, And, oddly enough, a third limb to make it a nice (though definitely not equilateral) triangle, Isaac Asimov.
I found there is another Kris Hendricks who is a real estate professional of some kind in Seattle, another who is an Olympic bowling coach, there is a Kris Hendricks who is identified as an "agent" on website called KGBusa.com, there is a Kris Hendricks from Allentown, PA, who has a Facebook account and another Kris Hendricks who works in some capacity with water permits or development permits in and/or around phoenix Arizona.
I was already somewhat acquainted with this last Kris Hendricks as his or her email address is ludicrously similar to my own, and over the last several years I have received the occasional request to review this or that construction proposal and approve the sought after permits, which I have kindly done.
But in all seriousness, the thing that I found most interesting was that the 5th item that came up relating to my name was my old blog on myspace which if you're interested in wasting 15 to 20 minutes can be seen here: (the old blog has now been deleted, but it was boring anyway) the interesting thing about that is this; my MySpace profile didn't come up, my Facebook profile didn't come, Even this very blog I'm posting on right now doesn't come up until the 6th page, (I just checked again and for some reason this blog just moved up to the 2nd page... weird.) the last time I posted in that myspace blog was almost exactly a year ago, my last two posts there can be read in a matter of 3 or 4 minutes, and I found them quite entertaining, there's a short piece about George Orwell and Trent Reznor... I was going to plagiarize it and post it again here, but I'll just leave it there and put the link here, as I have already done.
If you haven't already deduced from my excessive rambling I'm typing this in the middle of the night, I'm practically sleep-blogging. I'll cut it short, but again, as I've promised several times, I'm actually working on something about George Orwell, and I'll soon post it. This one, however, does not include slanderous gossip about a certain modern industrial musician or profess visitations from the ghost of literature past, but it will delineate the connection between Our subject, Eric Arthur Blair, his literary predecessor and arch-nemesis Rudyard Kipling, the prophet of Imperialism, And, oddly enough, a third limb to make it a nice (though definitely not equilateral) triangle, Isaac Asimov.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
The Master Plan.
o.k. so its been a while since I've written anything, and I've only written anything here... like what twice? I'm too lazy to even look. It doesn't really matter though because I'm pretty sure not a single person Has ever read this, should I give up? delete it all and pretend it never happened? end my short jaunt into the world of "Blogging" and wash my hands of it? oh no. I'm thinking ahead, I've got a master plan... you see, some day... I'm going to think of some very interesting things to write and maybe I'll have some other things going on and when that happens, I'll write some blogs and tell people to come here to look at them, and when they do they will read, not only the interesting things I just mentioned, but they will also see that I have been Blogging for a long time and it will create the illusion of authority, or at least look like I'm a Pro or something. It won't matter that I have a bunch of crap written here, cause no one will read this (being old) they'll just read my new interesting stuff.. O.k. I should go to bed. actually this is the busy season at work, probably will be all winter, so maybe at some point I'll take the time to write something good. but probably not for a while.
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