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| At computer class I was sitting with the two young guys who usually sit by me (about 18-20 years old) and we were attempting the quiz given us to devise a simple web page from scratch with no "copy & paste" short cuts, a challenge for us copy and paste aficionados. As we worked we showed each other what we had achieved, tried to figure out why something wasn't working, etc. Toward the end I showed them how to make the headline a scrolling marquee, to which they replied "cool". I told them that made me feel good to be able to show such young guys how to do stuff, to which the guy next to me replied simply and matter-of-factly "We're in the same space". What a cool remark, yes, the computer as equalizer... makes an older gal feel a little sharp. |
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| My daughter Carrie has been a Star Trek fan forever. She went to a convention in Portland recently and then wrote an article about it on her own Star Trek web page. It has been picked up by a couple of other sites, including one belonging to Dominic Keating (Lt. Malcolm Reed)- a nice acknowledgement for her. Click her picture for link to the site => |
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| And remember the R.Crumb comics from the Good Ole Days? (Good being defined as when we were young...) One has stuck in my mind over the years: a character says "What's it all mean Mr. Natural?" and Mr. Natural replies "It don't mean sheeet." <=Click on Mr. Natural picture for link to site... |
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| Paul was right, "How 'bout those Patriots?" Fitting name for a winner these days... |
| Another client that has stuck in my mind was a young woman about 30 years old I had seen who had cancer- can't remember what kind. She was having pain control problems but would not take pain meds because she had 2 kids, both pre-schoolers, and wanted to be able to interact with them and not be gorked so she would take the pain as long as she could and then had to come in to the hospital to get some relief. She had come back in again and I went in to see her, she was sitting in a chair with her hospital gown on and I was standing with my briefcase and clipboard talking as best I could with her. She was kind of shuffling her legs a little and then looked up and asked me to help her cross her legs (I hadn't realized that was what she was trying to do)- I scrambled and sat my stuff down, went over and lifted a leg up and crossed it over her other one for her. She thanked me as if I had done something wonderful for her. That was the last time I saw her, she died a couple of days later. So, that's about all I know about dying, it just happens and people don't get to be ready most of the time. I have gradually given up the little dream that somehow I won't have to face that task, I think that is where the Christian wish for the second coming comes from, that place of thinking that somehow the last task of life will be avoided. There are really no tasks of life we can avoid. |
| Joseph Campbell- Mythologist Extraordinaire "We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."- Jospeh Campbell "We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the Hero's of all time have gone before us. The Labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the Hero's path And where we have thought to find an abomination, we will find a God. Where we have thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves, Where we have thought to travel outward, we will come to the center of our existence. And where we have thought to be alone, we will be with all the world." I like this guy a lot... (Click below for link) |