I watched a program about stress last night. It was one of those things you watch where you see yourself being described and it makes you pay attention. The funny part was it was a story created about a hippie professor and his life long study of stress in baboons. There is a joke there somewhere… but I swear I did watch the movie. It is a National Geographic special. The timing is good. My...
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OS Speed Lesson Learned
I have been a bit frustrated on the performance of my super bad, 64 bit quad processor, 3.2 GHz, 8 GIG RAM, and 4 Terabytes of Storage, WIN 7 Ultimate. Pretty hot hardware specs and better than almost everything else made today. Re-built about 3 or 4 years ago after a lighting strike, I can’t make her any better today except add more processor cores and maybe a bit faster GPU video card. But almost...
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It could be a sign of age, but I enjoy thinking back occasionally and consider where I was and what I have done and learned through the years. It’s a wonderful gift we have of somehow storing a lifetime of experience within our minds. The easiest way to get it out and share is what I am doing right now. Early man (I despise the term “primitive”) was also aware of this. (I use the...
Continue reading...Purple Funks
Look up the various meanings of FUNK. It’s kind of a fun word. Purple is the color of the smog that surrounds funk allowing being “in” a purple funk in a visible sense, although in most cases it is simply a state of mind (depression). One cartoonist drew the condition as a brand of automobile so that the possessor could drive around in their purple funk. So I am not considering it a dire clinical...
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