weekends are for leisure

January 23, 2009

A few things I love

Filed under: life, people — Tags: , , , — alanszlosek @ 3:12 pm

The creativity, lyrical quality and instrumental experiments of Bright Eyes.

Programmers that find my projects and consider them highly overlooked.

The way Grandaddy surprises you with their use of synthesizers; such depth. They’ve taken a cue from the jazz mantra that what matters most are the notes you don’t play.

The way it’s somehow still exciting to meet someone new.

The way the grass is always greener across state lines.

September 16, 2008

The Hacktacular Dearth of Lakeland

Filed under: people — Tags: , , , , , — alanszlosek @ 6:19 pm

So damn, meetup costs $12 a month at the lowest rate. My desire was to start a “Lakeland Tech Creatives” meetup to find others hacking on software/hardware projects. That’s totally a waste of money if nobody here is interested but me. Given that I’ve been here a year and haven’t had much luck finding people up to this point, I think I know how it’ll turn out.

June 26, 2008

Impatient Idealism

Filed under: life, people — Tags: , , , , , — alanszlosek @ 6:28 pm

As I age I seem to be getting more idealistic rather than jaded.

  • Life should be easier
  • Things should be simpler
  • Stress should be less
  • Time should be more
  • Quality should be up
  • Cost should be low appropriate
  • Depression should be nil
  • There should be hills, and trees, and birds, and nature, and beauty
  • There should be plenty for all
  • There should be less excess, less waste
  • Injustices should be reversed with haste
  • There should be efficiency
  • And consideration for you and me

Idealistic, yes. The difficult thing is that I’m losing patience in dealing with things that don’t appear to be trending in those positive directions. This may be a bad thing.

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