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Scents

Daily Words 2011. 10. 19. 09:51

I am very sensitive to scents.
I can't stand anything that's even close to pungent - "pungent" is the keyword here coz I can eat Thai food fine.
But thankfully, I don't have a very good memory of the scents.
Forgetting that is easy...

It's not like how I remember what I witnessed...
Sadly, my visual memories are good beyond the necessities... just like the memories of events.

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The Moving Parts Around Me

Daily Words 2011. 10. 12. 18:22

I know this may sound weird,
but there are times when I look up in the sky (geez, I don't even have luxury to look up the sky these days),
I feel like I can feel the earth rotating; I feel I can see the circumference of the earth's horizon.
Of course it's impossible considering the size of the earth and my height (or anyone's height for that matter),
but there are times I feel like I do.

And I feel that way when I am neither drunk nor tired,
I felt that way when I was extremely clear in my mind (not high, never been high my entire life).

These days, I really don't have such luxury of taking a moment to absorb my surroundings.
But even without looking up in the sky, I sense that things are circling around me.
I feel that I am beginning to find my locus, again - not in my spirit as I meditate and look up in the sky, but through my deeds and activities.
Interestingly, I am also continuously suffering from some insatiable drive to make something better and meaningful out of me.

It's still not the state of being I desire, but it's also of a state that I can't really complain.
Deep inside, I still want a weekend away by myself, with nothing but a book about life in my hand and stay at some small motel by beach.

I lived in this insatiable drive for so many recent years,
I think I am getting accustomed to it and naturally learned to find my locus somehow in the midst of the crazy drive, whether that's been traditional or not.

I am just saying, while this is still good, I still seek peace.

PS: Was just intending to write a little, after reading Coelho's saying "when you write, you understand yourself better." It's been so crazy, I haven't read his last two books. I need to get those readings done soon...

PPS: Sigh... See myself pressuring myself to read those books again. 2:20 AM. I gotta crash.

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The Facebook Effect

Reviews 2011. 8. 30. 17:32

My first book off Kindle.
This book has more meaning to me that way than anything else.

Sure, the book was very interesting in the beginning,
but the fun wore off as it described the stories when Facebook had gotten big (ever since I paid attention to it).
The author did address the downsides and shortfalls of Facebook, but failed to make more remarks on the shortfalls the company experienced or problems it had to face and yet to face. He mentioned, but did not expound on those.

Although tried to be neutral, the author still left the book in favor of Facebook, which is still pretty understandable given that the author could not have made money off the book without their help.

Nonetheless, it's nice to read about the Valley with a view of a start-up.
It's always nice to read about traits of brains in the Valley, whom I may run into in the future.

When I intend to remember, I remember - and when I intend to forget, I forget.
I tried to remember descriptions and events involving any of the Valley guys that were mentioned.
I tried however to remember the least out of Zuck.
I haven't seen a side of him, despite of all other people including those that were mentioned in the book, that he is that good. So I don't got no respect for him. Not many people in the world have shown to me that they are smarter than me, or as smart as I am, and I need to screen people on this aspect. Maybe I have not met many people yet, but judgments on people I meet will come as apropos to the time and occasion.
Until then, especially for someone as old as I am, I can't determine whether it was his luck or his ability that are superior. He is not LeBron James or Tim Lincecum to me yet - among many of those whom I share birth years with. (Sadly, my birth year is the year when shitload of all stars were born.) I know I will never be better than LBJ in basketball, I know I will never be better in baseball (pitching) than Timmy.

I could get as meticulous as anyone when it comes to things that matter, and if I were to make a site or to run a company, I am not going to make a shitty one that's full of bugs and failures that even a mere mortals who don't know jackshit about programming can discover. I don't seem to share anything much with whatever Zuck thinks or Facebook is intending to do - although I am on it everyday. It's possible I don't know jackshit, but that's very unlikely based on historical probabilities.

I just don't like something as buggy as Facebook spreading through the Internet, and trying to act as a cool identification method for the Web. Google, I am okay. Facebook, no. I don't mind Google getting data out of my usage, because in return, I would benefit from it - although their search results have been sucking a lot since 2010. Facebook, I get nothing special out of it and the display ads or all those stupid apps are just plain dumb.

We will see.

Overall, an interesting book through out.
A fun read, because it's something I care about... a start-up (especially the one in the San Francisco Bay Area), Internet and someone born in the same year.
After all, I've get at least 70 years to live - actuarially speaking. So the game ain't over yet.