Tuesday, 10 November 2009

  • Let Me Pass On 2nd Down

    I've been patiently waiting for my friend(s) to post some Halloween pictures of me in my monkey costume and standing around and jumping on a trampoline and the like.  But apparently when you reach your late 20s, putting pictures on facebook loses priority. 

    But that's okay, because I don't need those friends anymore anyway because I have my new metal/plastic friend.  I just realized I haven't named my Motorola Droid yet.  Maybe something like "Droid".  Yeah, that's catchy.

    The life changing effects of the new phone are already tangible, as I can listen to Pandora.com at work and my rage is lessened by 50% or more with this added glee.

    Listening to music at work really increases my productivity to the nth power.  I don't want to say I have some distracting people in nearby cubes who are loud on speakerphone all the time, so I won't. 

    I added some new decoration to the old cell cube recently too...



    Some people might say something like "Oooh, big mistake.  There's no way a toy monkey that can be used as a screaming/flying slingshot can look professional in an office."

    But it's times like that I remember what may be one of my favorite quotes ever, from The Fountainhead:

    "But you see, I have, let's say, sixty years to live. Most of that time will be spent working. I've chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then I'm only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standards--and I set my own standards. I inherit nothing. I stand at the end of no tradition. I may, perhaps, stand at the beginning of one."

    Truer words, Ayn.  Truer words.

    In other Droid events, I saw this guy with a Longhorn tattoo on his head:



    Good to see Morgan Freeman at the Verizon store too. 

    The funny thing is, I'm willing to bet my soul that this tool didn't attend UT.  And if he did, I know for a fact he didn't graduate.  So, I don't know his story.  But I do like the guy standing there obviously knowing I'm taking a picture of the guy with the tattooed head.

    But, the reason I wasn't scared is that I was actually wearing UT shorts at the time.  So I knew the guy with the ink on his dome would like me and not fight me for taking a stealth pic.

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