Random Curry

Departing from the usual business-based fare today…

I read this post from my friend Suzi yesterday, and it got me thinking…

Walking and dancing with the F word

(As you may suspect, not for sensitive eyes)

So, this is for Suzi…

You end your post with this question:

I wonder how other people reward themselves. How do you celebrate you?

I have to say, that question made me stop and think for more than a moment. Personally, I really don’t ever stop and celebrate specific things in my life that center around me. I’ll buy an album or two off of iTunes, but that’s really about it. I think it’s equal parts a) I don’t have much time to do things like that, b) I hate the spotlight at all times, and c) I have never thought that I deserve it. I’d much rather celebrate other’s accomplishments than my own, so I spend time and effort doing that. Call it a weakness…

It reminds me of something else I just saw on TV, watching one of my guilty pleasures – VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club. On a recent episode, the cast is having a campfire where they bring something that represents their “old” lives to burn on the fire. It made me think, “What would I bring to the bonfire?” I couldn’t come up with anything…not that I don’t have things I want to change, but I couldn’t think of anything that represents it. Hmmm…

So, for those who have read this far…

For those of you who know me, you know exactly what I mean…

movieclips.com

( h/t Lifehacker )

A short diversion today…I’ve approached the whole social networking phenomenon with a little trepidation, and this article puts a voice to one of my hesitancies…

Facebook, The Mean Girls and Me

I’ve been “interviewed” by some of my old school acquaintances, mainly in the “who are you again?” vein…I guess I was as anonymous as I always thought I was…

A thought-provoking article posted about a subject we don’t talk about much…

Executive’s Suicide in Perspective

Here’s my little contribution on shedding a little more light on this…

For those of us old enough to remember, now you can have the instructions that sent us to the moon…

Google Code Blog: Apollo 11 mission’s 40th Anniversary: One large step for open source code…

This makes me almost wish I lived in NYC…almost…I would still hit my head in the stations if I didn’t duck…

YouTube – New York Nearest Subway Augmented Reality App for iPhone 3GS from acrossair

I can’t come up with a better title than that. I was a major space geek when I was a kid, and this is one of the seminal events of my young life – for just about all of us of a certain age…

The Best Web Site For the Next Few Days

(h/t Gizmodo)

Yeah, I know I’m late to the party, but this is really cool…

100 (Really) Beautiful iPhone Wallpapers

I took about ten of them…and there is a list of other sites to explore at the bottom of the post. Salud!

I had the privilege of flying 2/3 of the way across the country today, which among other things gives you the opportunity to think a little bit. I reflected on how lucky I am…

One of my favorite books is called Illusions, by Richard Bach. For those who haven’t read it, it’s the story of a man who meets and follows a “reluctant” messiah and learns a bit about life. In the book, he references another book called “The Messiah’s Handbook,” which contains short lessons that are used to teach the narrator what he needs to know. Bach has thankfully published this by itself, and my daughter gave it to me for Father’s Day. She didn’t know about Illusions, so I told her a little about it.

I showed her what I consider the most important lesson in the book…

Everything in this book could be wrong.

When I showed that to her, her reaction was essentially, “Well, that’s obvious. Why would anyone think anything different?”

Whoa.

I explained to her that there are a lot of people that can’t accept this lesson. In fact, a lot of suffering happens in this world because of the inability of some people to accept this.

It’s really cool to meet someone who understands this. It’s especially cool to have that person be your daughter. I couldn’t be a more proud father today if I tried.

The Sharks are really putting us through the ringer this year…it’s getting harder and harder to watch…