SimpleBlob's Life

This is called "Concrete poetry." (the poetry that paints pictures.)
It was Written By E.E. Cummings, entitled "1".



More explanation of the poem, Here.

The Book, Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell, is now listed in my 20 most favorite books of all time Hall of Fame.

Man, this is the second "text"book that read just like a novel. Most impressive.

At first sight (literally), I didn't like it much because, flipping through it, I found no picture at all and I hate that. I dislike any picture-less book. But after carefully reading it, it was shock full of amazing example! I know much more economics after reading this book for 1 day than sitting through an entire engineering economy class for 1 term.

Amazon. com Review here:

What is astounding about Sowell is how his mind appears to be free of the constraints of time, culture and borders. To him the world is one timeless and seamless swirl that is relatively ordered and predictable when you apply the principles of supply and demand. Every thought is supported with a cascade of facts and such impenetrable logic that it can hurt your head. He can speak on virtually any topic with resounding authority. At one moment he can discuss the northern migration of the present day Ibo of Nigeria, shift to the Roman occupation of Britain, then describe the effects of the Gulf Stream on Northern Europe's climate, and then explain how the volume of water in the African Zaire river impacts the region's cultural growth. He does this with amazing fluidity and ease. If the mark of genius is the ability to simplify complex information then Sowell easily stands as one of America's greatest thinkers.

The show where everything's made up and the points don't matters!

That's right.."The points are just like parking tickets!"

Brilliant, Bloody Brilliant. I consider this one of the great achievement of mankind.

Never seen the show? Try Here. More Info on the show? Right Here.

What, do you think, is the scarcest resource?

Oil?

Money? Lovers?

Nope, it's time.

You will feel that you will have less and less time when you grow older, Partly because somebody or something else would take your time away... and away it goes, you can't resist that.

To make it worse, you can't have more time, no matter what you do. You can't just find some "Time" underground and harvest it.

So, What should we(I) do?

The most logical answer is to manage it wisely. How then? As of now, my strategy mainly consists of defining you goal (what do you want to do, and why?) and prioritize them by how important they are.

The rest is execution, which I'm not doing too well right now...

Originally, I designed my goal with an initial assumption that "Everything I do will contribute directly to my goal." In other words, I will choose to do the only things that the goal has setted.

Not possible.

This time, project crops up by itself -- my friend has asked me to write a program for him. I owes him a lot, so I can't turn down his request.

Unfortunately it is a very difficult project.

The difficult largely lies in how much time and energy I have left after work. I can say that I don't have much left...

To do this project on time, I must sacrified some or all of my free time. Hopefully this doesn't effect this blog.

enough rant, enough learnt for today, simpleblob::out.