Shut it off to get work done?
OK so maybe it's not the best excuse in the world but I find that I have to shut off the brain in order to get work done from time to time.
So I watch TV shows in hopes that I can actually focus on my editing.
I can't even do Movies ... usually because they distract me too much and I get too involved and my editing suffers too much. (Meaning time editing)
What's worse for my editing of pictures is not watching anything at all... like today when my mind is racing about some political topic I want to figure out and write about. Or I want to write a review on a video and the concepts of how videos are judged compared to photography.
And now how I want to write this post. Which BTW I wont' post until tomorrow because I just posted another write up talking about how I need to write more stuff. Which was a thought in my head distracting me from editing for like 90 minutes... the way to get rid of it so I can get back to editing... write it.
Now back to my stupid shows. Today is not the day to listen to a book or an informational podcast. I'll just want to write about it (which is probably what's best for my brain) but dangit I need to get stuff done on the photography side.
Always have ideas… I just need to write them more.
It's a commitment I seem to make to myself often... write this stuff down more.
I can at least copy-paste my ideas and writings from my commentaries on facebook on to here so there's one location to find things.
I don't write a ton but when I do it's a wonderful experience and so beneficial to figuring out my principles and ideals.
- Maybe I'll just write on the days I feel motivated and have them set to be published on a time delay.
But one thing is for sure I have great thoughts coming in pretty often to this little head of mine. If I forget them or don't share them they don't do a whole lot of good.
Very often they come from reading other sources and starting to think on the subject.
Just get it over with, restrict everything
Everyone has something they're hung up on.
Some pet project or pet crusade.
Everyone else is failing you in X and X ways and you obviously have the solution.
For instance everyone has their ideas about driving, some are absolutely right and some are wacky and the rest are in between.
What gets me is: the solution I think people run to too willingly is... Make a Law.
I mean making tons of laws is great!!! Laws about anything and everything that could and possibly could concern me or you!
Making a law solves all our problems, doesn't it?
Sorry I don't have the time an engery to write this all organized and stuff - but follow along with the blog post and you're in for a fun ride.
I can make a list right here and now of a bunch of examples of said issues people crusade around.
BUT ... then each of you waltz in and grab on to their own issue and start standing on the soap box in defence of their champion.
Some of you are dead set you're right and every possible thing to restrict that thing from happening is seen as a positive in your book.
Well maybe you're right that there is a problem... but existence of A Problem does NOT equal allowance of ANY solution!
So let's take your cure all potion and lump it into one ridiculous situation, we'll keep it on a driving theme.
Silly string should never be allowed in cars!
I seriously could make arguments as to why silly string is dangerous, I could come forward with scenarios.
Find that 5 people have deployed silly string in the car while driving and it's caused an accident once.
Of course I wouldn't tell you how the results were decided I would just say silly string causes accidents at a rate much higher than drunk driving (because that tugs at your heart strings) it's more dangerous than reckless teenage drivers (because we all hate them and reckless is such a charged word)
I mean heavens sake silly string diving is 20% wreck probability ... that's a crazy high percentage.
In the good old days…
Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem
Principled Voting for a Principled leader
I've disliked McCain for a while.
I've disliked McCain since I first saw him.
Which was at the republican debates or maybe it was before that on the Daily Show. There was something about him that I couldn't quite put into words.
I've tried.
The best word i've come up with was "Snarky".
Besides the fact I don't agree with a lot of his actual positions.
(I suppose I agree with more of his positions than a more socialist type president.)
But civil liberties and the overeaching of the government is probably the main concern and high profile republicans have become the main opponents of those rights.
Which is wierd because their platform and actions of the past used to be on the side for good on many of our rights and a smaller less corruptible government.
Changing their minds or what some call Flip-Flopping
But that aside it's sad that so many good republicans who once vowed they would never vote for McCain during the primaries... are now "flip flopping" and saying they will indeed vote for him.
I was so excited because I thought they were gonna take a stand for something.
Make a statement.
Follow their heart and their principles.
Now it looks like they aren't.
They're gonna fall into the pernicious evil that tells us that it's alright to choose evil... as long as it's less evil than the other evil. Talk about going down "by degrees"
Some better things to talk about
The issues of our time that we should be talking about aren't being talked about:
We accept where are country has gone, we do not question the actions of our past leaders.
We do not fix past problems the way we should. We accept that someone installed a poor economic system and only resolve to keep it afloat rather than change it or restore it. We patch the education system with programs like the no child left behind. Instead of changing it to a principled based system. We insist that no one should be allowed to fail.
If you're LDS that philosophy might sound familiar. There was a certain someone that once proposed a plan that I find very similar about how no one would fail with him at the helm.
We also allow ourselves to be duped to believe that preventative wars and messing in the affairs of other countries is just fine because of safety. We also allow ourselves to give up our liberties (ex. privacy, speach, unreasonable searches, bare arms) to have more safety. We don't hold to our principles that inspired founders and the constitution taught us. When we give up liberty for safety we will have neither. There are many muddled affairs and it's hard to know the best things to do. The challenges of our leaders are difficult. They analyse and hold strong to their analysis, but what they don't understand is that living by a principled truth is much better and much easier.
Principles to live by in my opinion
- Do not give up our rights,
- do not be the agressor,
- do not grab for power,
- do not forget our god,
- don't lead by fear,
"Give me liberty..." this should be above Health Care, money, agressive wars, or even dare i say it education.
So many patriots of old believed it to be so important that it was first even above their own lives.
It was their own abusive government they were fighting btw.
(Heaven help us that it doesn't come to that once again.)
The constitution is the inspired wisdom that was set in place to protect what was most important. It was not created to make sure the chinese or the french or the iranians took away our liberty. It was made so we ourselves wouldn't do it.
Obama
And as for Obama.
What principles guide him?
Because then we can understand how his policies will go down.
Does he want no one to fail?
Are those 5 bold points among his donts?
Will he bring us back our lost liberties?
will he lead the saftey of our country in a principled way?
will he turn our hearts to god (without telling us or forcing our hand)?
will he try to lead through fear?
will he make sure no one person or persons gets too much power and maintain a system of checks and balances?
Will he protect the citizens from the government like the constitution intended?
Will he make people stand up on their own... or will he force them to stand up?
How about the stand on principled economics? How about the national debt?
Only principled politics will lead us to great things.
Patching the holes on a sinking boat is not the answer.
EA screwed it up with Spore!
I aint talking about the actual game which appears to not have delivered to its hype.
I'm not saying that it isn't a fun game. Not for serious gamers it appears. But then again I'm not a serious gamer.
What I'm talking about is how EA made a bad move and now it is paying for the consequences.
Aside from wether you like the rights management system that EA used to "protect" the game... the problem is "gamers" did not!
Casual gamers buy some games from time to time.
Frequent gamers by a lot - and they're speaking out, and they're making headlines.
The best article so far that I've seen is an ars-technica article
Where are these unhappy potential customers speaking up?
And they are also digging the ars-technica article massively as well.
Spore
I haven't really been interested in a video game for a while.
I played a couple of games last year that my roommates were into because it was fun to do stuff with them.
So I heard about this interesting game for a long time now, and like many others been awaiting it's arrival.
I will try to follow some of the early reviews and share my findings until it comes out.
PC.IGN.COM - Lots of reviews of each stage... even well done videos on each stage.
IGN UK review - 9.1 Score (It sounds like a good score and they seem to like it... but they do warn it's not as amazing as we all hoped it would be, so don't get too hyped)
Spore Revolution - parts of reviews of Spore put into one article
CNET - This is where the CNET review will be when they are able to get the game and review it.
Price is apparenty about $50
Gamespot - They will have their review and other info here in 2 days
Posting from iPhone
Well I just thought I'd try typing up a blog post using my iPhone. I have downloaded the wordpress app and set it up very quickly and easily. In fact I was surprised at how easy it was to get going. Props to them.
And in fact I'm not too bad at this iPhone typing thing. Maybe I'll get as fast as I was back in the day with my trek.
The thing I really like about it is that it's a one touch think and I'm up and writing.
Not having pictures in the post is probably not as affective for my photo blog. But it's good for pictures you take from your own iphone.
And doing links will probably suffer.
The application also let's you save your drafts easily so you don't have to retupe things. Because you don't want to have to retype things on your phone.
Certainly the iPhone suffers from a serious problem when it comes to blogging and writing things.
That's copy and paste.
I would say it's great for plain writing and writing only. Don't expect anything else.
Well maybe it's also cool to upload a picture to your blog.. That's per darn cool
Just thought I'd give a run down of my experience with this app.
I need a programmer
I'm looking for a programmer!
Goal: My goal is to have site up and running by second week of September.
PAY: I'm not rich but I'll pay good enough.
Time: whatever amount of time to reach September goal. At least 20hrs week is preferred.
Language: I'd prefer a framework and well commented so someone could carry on down the line easylike. Ruby would be cool but PHP is great too.
Communication: I have it all sorted out in my head but we need to communicate to get it on line. Locals are prefered.
Complexity: I'm told it shouldn't be very difficult. So says my really good/busy programmer friends.
The Purpose to be a one stop destination for searching for any photographer any where.
Who is the consumer?
Who are the photographers?
Benefit to the photographer?
To not have to pay a website to be listed and found
To not have to spend a lot of time creating a basic profile.
To be able to stand out because of their talents more than their marketing strategies.
Benefit to the Consumer?
One stop
Searchable based on almost any criteria they might need to find who they are looking for
Every option is there (all photographers)
Contact and websites are easy to find.
Style of site?
In the style of a shopping site... in that they should be able to compare the products (photographers)
Aspects of the site
-Database of photographers
-A simple search ability
-A more advanced search ability
-information to be re-organizable
-Filter functions on information
-a nice simple layout (not crowded but as full of information as they desire (expandable from little info to all info)
-accounts and logins
-admin functions
-well layed out database
Programming needs
(in my somewhat uneducated opinion)
-heavy on the database side - mysql is almost a definite decision
-I would prefer a framework - but I'm flexible
-style is what should set it apart - i have several ideas on how I'd like it
-very important - the data input of this information is pivotal... it should be designed to make it the most effecient possible for the person that inputs.
-Ajax sounds like it will be pivotal to the way information is deployed
-Ability to change or create new surveys
-I need search engines to find this. SEO
I don't want the info we grab and the way it's displayed to be set in stone - I want it relatively easy to switch up if needed. I don't want to have to redo the whole site if i add one aspect of information and
I need .... skills in my programmer
-web programming ability
-experience on other sites/projects
-mysql knowledge
-CSS
-Available Time
I prefer.... in my programmer
-Ruby, PHP, cakePHP
-ajax (Most likely a need)
-many years of experience
-communication skills - (Be able to communicate with me and understand the vision)
-Design ability (I might be working with a graphics designer... but design knowledge would still be a plus)
-Organizational - I need nice neat code that anyone else can pick up on
-know how to search for, find, and implement code that has already been done (sourceforge etc)
-fast worker
-lots of available time in at least august
-contacts and at least willingness to communicate with others to make sure they have the best possible code.
-Best cost for quality ratio (More towards the range of quality but i'll still try to get the best bargain)
IF YOU'RE INTERESTED
I would like an email with a resume. I don't care if it's formal or just a letter. But I want to know the following.
- A list of websites (with links) that you've worked on.
- Languages you program in.
- Specifically if you know any of the following technologies. (CSS, MySql, PHP, RoR, Ajax, Cake,SEO)
- How you learned programming... (Schoool, self-taught etc)
- How many years you've been doing it.
- How we'll be communicating. (In person, skype, phone, telepathically, a mix)
- Your prefered pay rate.
- Way you prefer to be paid (By hour, by project, by week, by month)
- What your last job paid.
- Anything else you'd like to know from me
- Anything else you think I should know about you or your work.
Call 801-362-6372 (Personally, I'd prefer a resume before calling)
Email: jarvie@jarviedigital.com
I will not make a decision until I have talked to several/many applicants.
And I'm too busy (11 wedding photo shoots this month) to sit down with many people this month.
Want to know more about me you can find me/ friend me on facebook (Scott Jarvie)
Or follow me on twitter @jarvie
Or go to any of my other blogs/ websites.
