December
18th
2007
Today was normal until 6pm.
I then read a hilarious article.
The central lesson I learned from exotic animal trainers is that I should reward behavior I like and ignore behavior I don't. After all, you don't get a sea lion to balance a ball on the end of its nose by nagging. The same goes for the American husband.
Having my share of "boy" problems lately, this discovery of this article could not have come at a better time.
I also received a very amusing e-mail (if only I could share), and read an even better (!!!) forum post:
hey I think you should build your own CMS forget ExpressionEngine if your in school start building a CMS with PHP and mysql ExpressionEngine is a handicap and it’s like using a calculator for Math and should not be allowed.
A... handicap, you say? A... huh? I'm sure that all the Pros that use ExpressionEngine don't consider it a handicap... then again, I'm sure that many advanced mathematicians don't consider calculators handicaps either.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas . . .
Can we swap inbox messages? lol. I get my fair share as well.
This poster was right, for let’s not forget, that the greatest scientists/mathematicians don’t even use something as simple as an abacus. The race to space, medicine, sports handicapping (heck all of Vegas, Atlantic City, etc), all done without any sort of computer, calculator, or even a pad of paper. They, like Nike, ‘Just Do It!’ (said in ‘machodramatic’ voice). Any, getting down to the nuts and bolts of it, why even use PHP or any other pre-made object oriented language, let’s just create our own and not have our hands held by using the work of other people, ‘It shouldn’t be allowed’, because it’s a handicap, you’re relying on another persons platform. We could even take this further, and not use Apache, Tomcat, etc, we should create out own web server, and even further, don’t use *nix/BSD/Solaris or Windows, let’s create our own operating system to have the web server run on.
I could keep this list going, and break it down further to transfer protocols, but why, the point was made.
Thanks for the chuckle this morning Lisa, now to get my coffee and finish waking up.
I agree, let’s go back to the 90s when the “web logging” pioneers wrote everything in straight HTML and created new pages manually. Those were the days, yessirreebob!
Personally, though, I’m in favor of paper diaries. Want to share? Just stick ‘em on a wall or prop the diary up somewhere.
Coffee is a crutch, learn to wake up without it. ;)
But I’m sure there’s something in a shade of grey…
Something in between…
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