I have my license to drive for about one and a half year now. Still I do not own a own car and I am not driving to school each and every day. There are two different kinds of opinions I experienced with this and this post is about the two.
One thing most people I know think of if it comes to cars, the license to drive them and the first time to own one is that they are no longer bond to their parents or public transport. They can drive wherever and whenever they want. One effect by that is: they turn 18 either already have their license or are currently trying to get it — and immediately after this they go and buy a car — some even get the car before the they are allowed to drive on their own. After having a car the next thing to do is to drive it, right? Well they do that. They got the car (are not earning any money) but drive to school every morning. Well I can understand that because most of those who do this have either some people to drive with (carpool like) and/or they would have to wait really long to get home by public transport.
Most of this arguments are correct and I understand them but maybe I need to describe my situation first. I already did this in a Linked List post titled Drive or Not to Drive but here again: I have a way to and from school which is with the train and takes about 45 minutes. Most of the days schools over at 2:35 PM which means I can not take the train at 2:41 PM because the way to the train-station is a bit to long to get down in under 6 minutes. So I end up waiting at school for about a hour and than drive home 45 minutes!
Isn’t that crazy?! What a waist of time! Why don’t you drive? You could lave about one and a half hour!
That should describe the looks I get if I tell someone. And they are right. It is kinda crazy and kinda unusual. Who wants to spend 2.5 hours of his day waiting or doing something useless? Well I do not think so. Sure I do complain about it often but most of the time I take it as a positive thing. I do not want to change it for numerous reasons. First of all I mostly enjoy the time. I take a book with me nearly every day and that 2.5 hours is the time I managed to read all the books I managed to read till now — which I never was able to manage to do. The hour in the morning often is great to be used to get some homework done or to study for a test or pop quiz. And one side effect is that I do harm the environment a little less.
But over all the most important aspect is that I slow down. I have time to think and concentrate. I have time to brainstorm ideas and lose my head about something I really like thinking about (or to make up some new ideas for blogposts). I would like to end this with a quote by James Shelley which I think puts it just right:
When I slowed down, I suddenly noticed that I was … living. When in a state of constant motion, the soul is often neglected for the other more “pressing” matters of life, that somehow serve as the ultimate distraction to recognizing your own, living consciousness. In other words, we’re too busy doing stuff to ever actually be alive.
~ James Shelley
Some time ago, I posted about the way I license my work now I found a post by Trey Ratcliff aka Stuck in Customs who posted about his philosophy which is pretty much the same. But what he found is a great video which defines pretty well what Creative Commons means.
Of my many points, I am convinced that legitimate companies do not steal. And just because my stuff is Creative Commons, it does not mean they have commercial rights to it.
~ Trey Ratcliff aka Stuck in Customs
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A few weeks ago, I started to save web found things at my Tumblr account avalible at log.CSPIEGL.com.
One problem about this is that I am struggling with the linked list posts here. Maybe I am going to stop the linked list stuff or I am going to filter the really important stuff and go on posting the important stuff here.
There is a new discovery: www.thesixtyone.com
That site is just awesome if you love good music which is not just mainstream played by the radio!
And I have to recommend one song: The Wizard’s Ascension-HQ
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You probably shouldn’t be writing anything. Just sit back, do what you have to get done and write again later…
That’s what I am going to do now!
But still, I decided on an impulse to venture into the open and, for the first time in a very long time, play in the rain. It was the most cathartic thing I’ve ever done in quite a while.
I’ve been so busy growing up that I’ve forgotten the joy of catching raindrops with your tongue, stretching your arms out, letting go and just feeling life.
I’ve found happiness—it’s in the raindrops.
~ Dean Lozarie
Something to remember! Something to remember!
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Yesterday we wrote the our final test. Now just the exams in five weeks are a little horrifying! But what is funny: I am just happy. I am satisfied and am happy. I can not really understand why because I probably should be a little scared or something but I am not!
Over all I would like to get out there that this year seems kinda nice. My projects work out pretty well (OK I could need some help with AIDvertisement but I got it done in time and it works), my plans are going forward and one secret project also runs great.
Over all happy weeks to come, bit stressful but that is OK!
Design | Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Some days ago I submitted my desk with two photos to SimpleDesks curated by Pat Dryburgh. Now they are life out there: Photo 1 and Photo 2.
If you would like to read more about the desk and its history: I have written two pots about the it.
The old one about the formal setup and the new one with the new tech stuff.
And here are the two photos
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a tinkerer. Some of my fondest memories of my childhood involve taking apart my toys, figuring out how they worked, and putting them back together.
~ Josh
As far I can tell, I was pretty much like that. But much more of a problem is the second part.
I’ve given up almost everything serious that I’ve attempted to do. Over the past few months, I’ve been trying to discover a reason for this so I can try to remedy it. When it really comes down to it, there are only a few very specific things that come naturally to me, and when I encounter something that’s difficult or that I can’t pick up and perfect right away, I get very discouraged and give it up.
~ Josh
That is pretty much also my problem. Often I think about others, and what they do and that they do it all life long. I am not such a person. I start many things, have many ideas and try different things all at once. All that is sometimes very confusing and also that way it is hard to get one great thing done.
Over the past I tried to get more focused and to concentrate on one thing but that did not happen. I am still doing several things all at once. And one thing I hate about it is that it influences my marks at school — which really is bad!
One reason I keep telling me is that I am still pretty young and that it is OK to try different things. Still, I would like to get one thing that really works and that I love.
In the end I come down to minimize the things around me. Stop project I do not think are worth the effort and try to focus on the things I like. Even than that are to many different. So I start to stop things I like the least. And than — not that much later — I just start one new thing.
I hope that gets better over the next weeks as I am going to — again — have some final exams. And that I will be able to concentrate on that. Afterwards I hope that I can find something I really like to work on (but still I will have one more year of school which needs to be done).
I will see how things will turn out!
I never even knew that this existed.
Whereas the widely preferred QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow people down (it was made for early typewriters, whose keys clashed when people typed too fast), the Dvorak layout was designed with speed in mind.
~ Dean Tastic
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