26 October 2005

isn't science exciting

Ignoring the atomic bomb and animal experiments just for a moment - isn't science thrilling. Headlines like Mars probe finds rare life on Earth make my day - yes, really.

It makes it hard for me to understand why some people seem to be determined to waste time on warlike stuff when there's so much to be discovered just under our feet.

13 October 2005

needs to wants bandwagon jumped on

explain the game: go to google and put in your name plus the word 'needs' and do search.... I couldn't help myself and decided I needed help with 'wants' as well..... it sort of reminds me of I Ching....

needs:

1. define space war fighting doctrine and vision and ... [develop] a robust and dynamic intelligence-wide training program.
2. bass player to complete our line-up
3. to be an intensional model-a model of the mind of the speaker-with explicit goals, intentions, so that decisions can be made coherently (I certainly do!)
4. to hold back from purchasing Inde Artists Music! (er - ok)
5. adjustment, please e-mail Dan....
6. schools, colleges ...
7. to be coherent entities with goals, or there can be no notion of "intentionality".
8. them for the 4th of July or any other event. ...
9. either to design agents. An OO approach. would be more appropriate. ...
10. to be automated (think I already am!)
11. Living Essence, * of Fire, * of Earth etc. ... (I liked this one so I went to 11)


wants:

1. to know the pronunciation of the word
2. to be punk
3. the construction details, and very little on the theory (so true...)
4. to see the new, interesting, humanitarian, egalitarian stuff we can come up with. (This is actually me – something I said coming back from the distant past to haunt me)
5. to anticipate, but prefers start at night.
6. to start your own business
7. to find out; why I’m doing the ...
8. to move ...
9. to make ...
10. to be known by ...
11. to be irish
12. to play too – (And Dan was drinking his classy version of Orangerine)(another Dan reference - sounds like Dan)
13. us 2 be friends
14. to view the ... none of the commissioners called for the painting's removal,
15. now to consider specifically
16. a good RCBS Jr3. Press (something to do with guns? - must be subconscious)

officially money-sensitive or broke

Well I know what the word 'budget' means.... I mean, I think I do. You put numbers on paper or computer and move them around and they aren't supposed to come out negative 400 a month - I know this because people laugh at me when I tell them that's what my budget is..... It sux that it involves maths - why can't it be in pictures? Actually that may not help.

piggy-in-the-middle

I am not the middle sister. I am not meant to be the piggy-in-the-middle. It seems to be one of those things that someone has to do.... My sisters never fight - it's worse than that; they avoid anything that might lead to it. One of them avoids telling the other things she may need to know - she tells me and when other sister finds out where I got the info from I get asked questions. I dodge, not well and ask myself how things got so complicated.

I know it comes down to the old enemy and part of the blame does lie with other sister, but it's time to let go of resentment or bring it out and deal with it... I think. I don't know how something like that plays out - the resentment does run deep. There isn't anything to be done about the past and resenting someone who is in your life and you love is just knocking yourself about. I try to reserve it for the old enemy.... at least he isn't formally in our lives anymore. And if he turns up mentioned in grandfathery role I forbear to say anything - just think nasty thoughts and enjoy them. I haven't had to face his ugly in many years and may that wonderful spell last....

Besides, other sister has something we younger two lack - she seems to enjoy life more. I envy her that. Perhaps she sometimes lacks empathy, but she knows how to 'let go'. She has charisma and in those brief and fleeting moments when she actually turns her attention on you you feel loved and special. Of course, with middle sister these grown-up days I feel loved and supported most of the time - that's something really special.