Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Wed
12
Oct
2005

How to Get Rich

According to this article, if I want to generate more income, I need to lose weight.
On the surface, it doesn't make sense. But researchers from The Ohio State University insist there is a definite association between weight loss and increased wealth, especially for white women.
[...]
The data in this study can't tell us whether a person's wealth affects obesity, or whether obesity affects wealth, but the association is definitely there...
[...]
White women who dropped their body mass index score (BMI) by 10 points saw a wealth increase of $11,880.
Interesting, huh? I wonder if it is because thinner people have more confidence in their ability to get more money, if society pays more for thinner workers or a combination of both. So, an interesting experiment to try, huh? I want more money, let's see if losing weight helps.

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Tue
11
Oct
2005

Fonts to Purchase

I have tons of little pieces of paper all over with names of fonts I want to eventually purchase. I'm going to start posting them in this entry for future reference.

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Wed
28
Sep
2005

Damn The Websites That Lock Your Browser

Man, I had just typed up this long, insightful post and went to another site in another tab to get a link I wanted to post that I found this morning and the damned site locked up my browser. Buh bye loooong, insightful post. I so don't feel like writing all of that again right now. Maybe when I get home. *hrmph*

I just about jacked my keyboard at work when I knocked over my water bottle. Fortunately, the water spilled in front of it and I only got a few drops on the spacebar. Whew. Not that I'm doing any work today anyway. I have to beat the art director about the head to give me work to do and I'm tired of it. I've gotten such a bad attitude here. That's what my post was about. Maybe it's a good thing that the browser crashed. Maybe all I really needed to do was get my anger and frustration out and I did and there is no record of it. Hmmmm.

Anyway, I've been doing The Artist's Way for the last week. I started doing it a while back and never made of habit of it. I think I gave up after a week. This time I'm determined to see the process through. I've got a major creative block and some self-confidence issues. I do some serious mental self-sabotaging and I need to get to the root causes and fix it. One of the main excercises in the program is a thing called morning pages. Every morning you write three whole stream-of-consciousness pages of all the crap floating around in your head, no matter what it is. That's probably why I haven't had much to say here. Once it's on paper, why bother typing it again?

I can't remember how I got there, but I was reading this site called The Lazy Way to Success and I read this quote:
It is extremely rare to achieve financial success as an employee.
Man, how true that is. I don't care if I ever become rich, but I'm tired of being an employee. I hate it. I'm tired of my income being dictated by the work ethics of other people.

Friday, September 23, 2005

Fri
23
Sep
2005

Font Humor

Just found this cute poem while font-searching:
ODE TO SPELL CHECKERS

Eye halve a spelling checker
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marks four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My checker tolled me sew.

Saturday, September 17, 2005

Sat
17
Sep
2005

No Water For You

So, I can't take a shower. For the third time in as many days, we have no water. We've not been warned as to when these water outages will occur, we have no idea who is turning the water off and we have no idea when it will be back on. I also need to run some laundry and the dish washer. I am not a happy camper right now.