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Hello World!

Hello World! The ubiquitous Hello World.. to announce something!

Are you in a Mid-Life crisis?

Although I don’t believe such a thing exists on a scientific level, here are some symptoms I can imagine. Consider yourself in a mid-life crisis if - You are getting nostalgic about the past lately You think cutting your hair short makes you look younger You think tight T-shirts suit you better You get unusually happy when you buy from Forever-21 or American Eagle or Hollister or Abercombie. You start believing in stories of young girls dating married old men You say you don’t remember your age on your birthday You start becoming ambiguous about your age in general - you prefer to use floor() instead of round() on your age. You fight with all your liar’s might to stay below 40. ….. My friend Troy has contributed more to this list… his list follows: You just bought a motorcycle You start working out, because you think it might be your last chance to actually be fit You are more motivated to finish your projects before your mental faculties deteriorate or you get too lazy You find sites ...

This Place..

One of my most favorite scenes in a movie is the animated sequence in ‘Time Machine’ where the whole world changes around the house - from this point in time to millions of years in the future. You see the house getting older, then collapsing and things just keep happening around it, wars get fought, climates change, landscapes change, new people appear, all kinds of things happen.. all at the same location. It kinda’ puts certain things in perspective in my opinion. The things we are so passionate about.. I am this, I am that, this is my house, my car, this is where I belong, this land is mine, .. is so short lived. Nobody even knows you existed at that location on earth in a few years. If one just thinks about it, all the great people in the history, walked the same earth that we are walking on now which was walked on by Dinosaurs some millions of years ago. I mean, where does that leave a single human being? This is bad! I don’t like it. With all the intelligence and arrogance in th...