I was little bit late to work yesterday. When I got there the meeting had been going on for ten minutes with my team already. I attempted to say "I was in the middle of something". What I said was "I was in the middle of someone." The word embarrassed does not cover it.
I had to go to the courthouse to do a bit of work today. Anytime I go there I always catch myself going into the court room at the end of the day so I can sit in the back and look at an empty court room. Regardless of the reality of the situation, I like the idea of a justice system, of a fair and balanced area where lawyers spar and a court of peers decides a man's fate. It always seems very esteemed to me, regardless of the situation.
I met a sociopath recently while working. He was an interesting kid. He threatened to kill me while we were sitting there alone. He could have tried, we were unguarded. I have long since learned to take sociopath threats in stride though (while keeping my guard up). Most of the threats are a test anyway to see how you react. Anyway, He was telling me that he lit a cow on fire because he wanted to see something to die. So I asked him if it smelled like hamburger. Here's the one good thing about a sociopath; you know all the stupid morbid joked you made in high school like dead baby jokes? A sociopath will appreciate those.
I was listening to weird al yankovic's "white and nerdy" recently. I was a little embarrassed to see that I identified with many of the lines in the song.
I watch law and order and they always ask "where were you on this date" to establish an alibi. The people on the show always know. The thing is I have a horrible memory when it comes to time. I remember events well but I don't know when they happened. You could ask me what I did yesterday and I probably couldn't tell you. Due to that fact they would think I was lying and send me to jail. The good thing is I don't do anything to terribly criminal so it's not an issue.
I think the way that I work, the things that I see, have change the way I handle a crisis either of a work or personal nature. When the shit goes south, I do panic for about a second. Then I feel myself flooded with cool blue reason. It's almost like blanket wraps around me and I think instead of feel.
Shadows really do define everything. I was thinking of this today as I was drawing. The shadows on a piece of paper define the image on a white canvas. I tend to think the same thing of people. "Good people" tend to define themselves by the bad things they don't do. I think as you get older you tend to look at things in shades of grey. For example, if you and your child were starving on the streets, would you steal food? I would. Does this make me bad or evil? Shades of grey.
My mom went on a trip where she saw impersonators act like the blues brothers. She and the crowd were enthralled enough to want their autographs. This amazes me. The people are dead. We want them back so much that we pay actors to play dress up and sing songs they didn't write. These people make millions, have their own websites, and get laid by groupies and in the end they are all fakes.
You'll notice in superhero movies, they always rip their mask off in the last scene so you can see their face and sympathize. This happens in daredevil, spiderman, Batman 2, and others. Superman doesn't wear a mask. The X-men weren't given masks for this reason. I think this is a silly idea. I would never take my mask off if I was a superhero because I know when the movie is over the villain is telling their friends and they are all coming after my family.
Speaking of superheroes there is one named Judge Dredd. The idea is that in the future the world is hit by nukes. There are several surviving cities crammed with people called "megacities". The police there are called judges because they execute sentence on the spot. They see crime, apprehend, sentence (send to jail or murder on the street), and go about their way. This is nice in the way that we don't have inmates sitting on death row, but extremely scary in the fact that one person decides what happens to you.
I had to go to the courthouse to do a bit of work today. Anytime I go there I always catch myself going into the court room at the end of the day so I can sit in the back and look at an empty court room. Regardless of the reality of the situation, I like the idea of a justice system, of a fair and balanced area where lawyers spar and a court of peers decides a man's fate. It always seems very esteemed to me, regardless of the situation.
I met a sociopath recently while working. He was an interesting kid. He threatened to kill me while we were sitting there alone. He could have tried, we were unguarded. I have long since learned to take sociopath threats in stride though (while keeping my guard up). Most of the threats are a test anyway to see how you react. Anyway, He was telling me that he lit a cow on fire because he wanted to see something to die. So I asked him if it smelled like hamburger. Here's the one good thing about a sociopath; you know all the stupid morbid joked you made in high school like dead baby jokes? A sociopath will appreciate those.
I was listening to weird al yankovic's "white and nerdy" recently. I was a little embarrassed to see that I identified with many of the lines in the song.
I watch law and order and they always ask "where were you on this date" to establish an alibi. The people on the show always know. The thing is I have a horrible memory when it comes to time. I remember events well but I don't know when they happened. You could ask me what I did yesterday and I probably couldn't tell you. Due to that fact they would think I was lying and send me to jail. The good thing is I don't do anything to terribly criminal so it's not an issue.
I think the way that I work, the things that I see, have change the way I handle a crisis either of a work or personal nature. When the shit goes south, I do panic for about a second. Then I feel myself flooded with cool blue reason. It's almost like blanket wraps around me and I think instead of feel.
Shadows really do define everything. I was thinking of this today as I was drawing. The shadows on a piece of paper define the image on a white canvas. I tend to think the same thing of people. "Good people" tend to define themselves by the bad things they don't do. I think as you get older you tend to look at things in shades of grey. For example, if you and your child were starving on the streets, would you steal food? I would. Does this make me bad or evil? Shades of grey.
My mom went on a trip where she saw impersonators act like the blues brothers. She and the crowd were enthralled enough to want their autographs. This amazes me. The people are dead. We want them back so much that we pay actors to play dress up and sing songs they didn't write. These people make millions, have their own websites, and get laid by groupies and in the end they are all fakes.
You'll notice in superhero movies, they always rip their mask off in the last scene so you can see their face and sympathize. This happens in daredevil, spiderman, Batman 2, and others. Superman doesn't wear a mask. The X-men weren't given masks for this reason. I think this is a silly idea. I would never take my mask off if I was a superhero because I know when the movie is over the villain is telling their friends and they are all coming after my family.
Speaking of superheroes there is one named Judge Dredd. The idea is that in the future the world is hit by nukes. There are several surviving cities crammed with people called "megacities". The police there are called judges because they execute sentence on the spot. They see crime, apprehend, sentence (send to jail or murder on the street), and go about their way. This is nice in the way that we don't have inmates sitting on death row, but extremely scary in the fact that one person decides what happens to you.