Years… It’s been years…

…so if you (any­one) read this, I’m sorry. If I keep writ­ing, some of the rust might fall off, and then there will be entries wor­thy of your read­ing effort.

Fallen
and cracked
tho not bro­ken
but open and leak­ing
bleed­ing with­out weep­ing
the casu­alty of
a serendip­i­tous col­li­sion
with­out rea­son or rhyme
just a case of right time
right place
of trip-line
becom­ing tourni­quet
of mir­rors
fac­ing each other at mid­night
of wounds
meet­ing in a kiss
and becom­ing
words.


Depression is humiliating.

All I can say to this is yes. Yes. Yes and thank you, Pearl, and @kateordeath for pass­ing it along (the arti­cle, not the depres­sion). Yes. Exactly. And I am sorry. And thank you every­one and I am sorry. Depres­sion is humil­i­at­ing. It turns intel­li­gent, kind peo­ple into zom­bies who can’t wash a dish or change


MindJet MindManager, or When shopping for used cars doesn’t make you feel hassled enough

I have begun using Mind­Man­ager for map­ping out new web­sites and mobile apps. It is a robust tool, tho not alone at its fea­ture level. Before any of you even think of down­load­ing it for a trial run, you may want to come up with an alter ego. Here is the feed­back I left in


Graduation

J = (CK)/B where: J is the joy found in com­plet­ing a long and har­row­ing task, C is the cel­e­bra­tion one gets to par­take in upon com­ple­tion of the task, K is the knowl­edge acquired while suc­cess­fully com­plet­ing the task, and B is the bull­shit one is required to wade through to com­plete the task.


Comfortable Funk

It has been one of those week­ends: rain most of the time, and when not rain­ing, windy, chilly and over­cast. Some­thing about these week­ends makes me slip into a com­fort­able melan­choly. I got out the deck of funk flash­cards and drilled myself: What am I doing? What have I done? Even worse, what haven’t I


The quietly social

A lot of peo­ple think that coders and seri­ous com­puter geeks are anti-social ani­mals. While I would agree that the major­ity of them (us?) do not grav­i­tate toward night­clubs or huge par­ties, we are social beings, even when we work. This occurred to me lately, as I’ve been try­ing to wrap my head around a


There is a comfort in the worries of others

I have been asked by many peo­ple whether becom­ing involved in the angst of oth­ers doesn’t exac­er­bate my depres­sion. I have, for most of my life, answered, “for the most part, no!” I never had, how­ever, a good rea­son to give to explain this per­sonal phe­nom­e­non, until recently. I have dis­cov­ered that, if some­one you


Those wacky Greeks

You think you have just the thing to fin­ish off your WWF (Words With Friends, peo­ple, Words With Friends—sheesh!) oppo­nent, only to find out that, this time, the *lack* of an “S” is what pre­vents you from kick­ing some vocab­u­laric arse: kudos: This one you knew was not the plural of “kudo”, the obscure fact a