thoughts[1]
motion moving,
everything is streaming, flowing
it itching to find its natural pattern.
the rhythym that life intended it to take.
refuge to the mountains, they know.
they've been there,
its the same on the inside that its is on the outside,
just the noise in between the two,
will distract you enough to believe that that is all there is
noise
School Life
I'm pretty well taking forever to complete my college degree, but this go round has good rhythm. and at this pass, it should bea good means to an end. the material can be or is interesting, and to an extent I am enjoying it.
the Intermediate Accounting course, with Dr. Nell Adkins, is quite enjoyable. While
I initially quietly disputed that she doesn't allow computers or really anything except for a pen and paper, but i've come to enjoy it, as a new refreshment. So far it has been just the hardcore numbers, and it makes sense, more sense than the AC201 course that i had taken with Edmonds.
the AC304 course, Accounting Information Systems, i guess this course is a 'needed' course. But really, this course could use some major revamping. or at least the instructor seems like he needs to be let out of his box, so he can broaden his awareness and refresh his concepts. Namely, because half of this course is to be instructed on the use of Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics accounting software, i have as much problems as i did with the early Information Systems course i was required to take, that was nothing more than the usage of Microsoft Office. This is corporate propoganda, these instructors teach as if there is nothing else out there.
Even tonight, Dr. Tsai, tried to use an equation, that I see is quite false.
(Price of software package) = ( total cost of labor) / ( potential volume of sales)
using Microsoft Windows Vista as the example, saying that every new computer will come with an OEM version of Vista, and therefore you will pay "almost nothing" for this highly developed piece of software. At which point i had to interject, "it isn't almost nothing, it is over $100". With the OEM arguement, Windows could be sold for $10 a license and Microsoft would still make a profit, but at $100-$200+ is why more millionaires have come from Microsoft's employement base than any other company, and Bill Gates has been in the top 2 for wealth for ten years strong.
ergg i wish someone who professes this material spoke like they haven't been fed, with benefits, by some large corporation.
anyhow,
more later
vb
Personal Experiences
Last weekend, my wife and took the nice occasion to have a babysitter come, so that we could have a date night. This was dually special, not only for a little alone time, but also because the movie Across the Universe had just been released. For the record, regardless of the stupid reviews, this movie is super.
The story is entirely nice and simple, believable, and real. Also this movie is a musical, as well it should be.
It is a perfect synthesis and application of energy in the Beatles songs that soundtrack it. Almost as if the egg came before the chicken, they made the music of the soundtrack, long before it was utilized this way.
i walked away from the theatre not necessarily thinking of what a great story, but about all the moments i can remember those songs settling with me, in my life. To exadurate this point further, as we were walking out of the theatre, there was a group of high school kids that had exited the same movie with us, and they essentially bickering over who was the bigger Beatles fan. On first hear, i thought they sounded trivial and stupid, but after letting their emotions run in me for a second, it made me appreciate the Beatles that much more. My Parents have had, and still have experiences with the same music that i have made memories with, and so on.
there were three separate instances in the movie when i cried or teared up,
1st was primarily for sadness and partially for beauty (when the young black boy was obviously killed and the church choir was singing)
2nd was for beauty (when they were laying in the star formation singing "Because the sky is high")
3rd was for love ( the rooftop concert reunion)
this has been a movie worth it to go to the theatre to see and one that i intend on purchasing the DVD to have in my collection.
Cool Toys
So this blog is coming to you from a Nokia n770 internet tablet. l'm test driving it to see if it's something l would spend my money on. The keyboard takes a little getting used to, but l can look past that. So far l reflashed it with the 2OO7 hacker edition so it has the feel of the new N8OO model. Nokia has used the Debian package manager, and there's plenty of good repositories for open source apps, and they've made the GUl package tool easy to add repos add/remove apps. Because of this, l've now got vnc, terminal, ssh, this wordpress blogging app and a significant textpad. But i've got to run now, i'll post more later.