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It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
I hope that no one will claim to know the final answers; no good comes from prophets. But even when acknowledging our falibility, we must nevertheless continue to think about these matters and give the advice to others that intellect and conscience dictate. And let God be our judge, as our grandparents used to say. - Sakharov
Baka ni tsukeru kusuriwa nai (There's no medicine to cure stupidity) - an old Japanese Proverb
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Saturday, 13 January 2007 |
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Its too bad I lost some of the stories from last year from that hard drive crash, I had some important stories leading up to this one. Oh well. The past few months I've been contemplating on what to do at this stage of my life. I've got a good job, good friends, cool hobbies, but still I've been irritated with some feeling of stagnation and overall boredom... and when I'm feeling this way, my productivity and creativity seems to stall.
Then I realized I'd been in California for over 10 years now! Crazy. Way too long, I thought I would be dead by now... j/k. :) I know most of you know that I haven't been the biggest fan of the "South Bay" (Silicon Valley Proper). Any righteous hacker who isn't trying to go big at the latest IPO would agree with me that the lifestyle here sucks for anything other than for that sole purpose. If not, they haven't traveled to enough cities for sure. So anyway, I finally decided to do something about it. First, I thought I was just going to move up to San Francisco permanently which is a perfectly good idea, but I've decided to move eastward instead! Everyone I've told this to says I'm nuts. They ask, why would you want to leave the perfectly good weather of California? Well, I think its time for me to toughen myself up a bit and learn what cold weather is all about. I've lived in Japan, Hawaii, California in respective order* and now next will be BOSTON! It seems right to move rightward in this direction. I finally got something exciting new to look forward to. All this being said, I do plan to return to California someday after this "adventure" out east is finished... of course unless I decide to go even more rightward after this stint. :)
(* I was born in Nashville TN, but only lived there 1 year)
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