19th december 2009
The Preamble - This blog entry comes as the first in slightly over two months, and the first journal-style entry in an even longer while. It’s not that I’ve fallen off the face of the Internet though, just that I’ve been pre-occupied with certain matters of a higher priority.
A Year Since - This entry marks a year since I decided to re-skin this blog from the dull and unoriginal default skin to something else a little more interesting, and start writing about matters outside of the technical domain. The skin that you see today comes two revisions later but the changes you’ll see are more than just aesthetic. There has probably been a marked, consistent change in the content of the entries posted within the past year. The frequency at which entries are posted has taken a notable decrease, largely due to my full-time occupation as an NSF. Hopefully, this decrease in frequency is but a transient observation that will change with today’s blog entry.
The Only Constant – In the most vague and general terms, the past year is one where there has been a distinct adoption of interests and re-prioritization of existing ones. These changes have surprised myself, and at least a handful of the people who are close to me. Along the way, I’ve probably stepped on a number of toes. It’s not something I’m proud of, and in most cases, I apologize for my transgressions. But as the cliched phrase goes – change is but the only constant in life – I hope these changes will turn out to be for the better.
Gummy Bears - I haven’t lost my mind nor have I developed an unhealthy obsession with these delightful sugary confections. But seemingly cryptic as it is, gummy bears have a mysterious ability of either making me smile like a demented fool or cry like a baby, sometimes simultaneously, or at least with one following the other in rapid succession. I’m certainly not giving up my gummy bears for anything in the world! While I’d like to be verbose in the public domain, the grace and elegance of subtlety carries a certain magic to it. Since it is often said that a picture speaks a thousand words, at 12 pictures per second for 161 seconds, that’s almost 1.9 million words. So this is it. I’m a yummy, tummy, funny, lucky gummy bear! (:
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