New Idea’s

Why have my great ideas been stolen by others. Can people really read other peoples minds?. I think so, so it must be true.

Ctrl is for what?

This month the main home computer crashed. The hardrive with the operating system and the pictures documents etc. crashed. I took it out and found that it was corrupted. I can’t even read it with the software that I have to do stuff like that. Then the now crawler baby, tore the keys of my laptop. I’ve lost my ctrl, tab and borrowed a 3 from the other laptop/DVD player.

Its about time to repace both these, but I can only do one. sigh. My wife hasn’t blogged for 3 days and its my fault.

Τravel Time

When booking an appointment, should travel time be included?

Lets say I have a meeting where I have to be in location A at 1pm for 1 hour, and then at location B at 3pm for 1 hour. Taking into consideration that I have to travel to location A and then to Location B and then back to the starting point, I have to factor in the travel time when making the appointments. Who then pays for the time I travel, since I can’t get another appointment in during my travel time? Clearly it’s me, because the client is only paying for one hour appointment.

They say “Time is money” and appear to be loosing  it for travel to Location A and to Location B and from Location B back to the starting point. Lets say the distance to travel takes about 1 hour in all cases, thats 5 Hours of work with only 2 hours of payment. Looks like the hourly rate needs to be high enough to cover the travel time or its just not worth moving, infact if not balanced correctly I could loose money.

I spoke to a taxi driver who said he drove an engineer to Maroochydore – some 2 hours in a taxi there and 2 hours back again - for $600; and the job only took 20 minutes. He said the engineer didn’t appear to make any money from the trip, but was contractually obligate to attend. I am guessing he must have charged for the cost of travel as well as the expect time to do the job.

This makes me appreciate the customers who bring thier computers to me to be fixed even more.

Kids x 4

Why does it shock people that I have 4 children? Not sure but today it freaked me out. Wo, I have four little children who think I know stuff. I hope I measure up.. 4 x times the fun, 4 x the pressure, 4 x the pain, 4 x the personality, 4x teenagers, 4x…. oh dear.. Honey we have to talk….

A better warning sign

Its an easy mistake to make but one I didn’t want to make. I put a unleaded petrol in a diesel engine. It’ll work for a bit I am told, but it has the potential to do alot of damage to an engine. Don’t do it. The fuel tank hole was bigger than usual, and the warning Diesel sticker was below the intake, I simply missed it. Fortunately I pull over as soon as I noticed something wasn’t right and recognised my mistake soon after that. I called a tow truck and $700 later I was back on the road… stupid. look for the signs.

Buy a car

Why is it so hard to buy a car? It’s because we have and expect high standards for what is within a limited budget.

Leaning

Since when is leaning against a wall mean lazinessy, or putting your hands in your pockets? Since when does yawning constitute being bored?

Catching the winds

While sitting on the beach yesterday with my 8 month old baby watching her reach out with her hands against the wind that blew up the beach, looked very much like she was trying to catch the wind. Innocently she opened and closed her hands, and moved with intent, all the while laughing and talking. She continued this for a while and only putting her onto the sand, did she stop and change focus.

It made me think that often catching the winds is real in most peoples lives. We reach out to grab “things” that we just don’t understand, we think that “things” can just come to us and are there for the taking. But in reality if the thing is simply an opportunity it may not be what it appears to be, it might not be ‘catchable’. Whilst it looked liked fun, catching the wind, those of us with the experience could see her attempts and we laughed. We knew she wouldn’t catch anything, but we let her do it anyway.

Most of life is like this, those with the experience simply let us fail in our own time and come to the conclusion on our own. But is that fair? How do we say to the child, its’ the wind, you can’t catch it. She doesn’t know what the wind is and yet she can’t see it, but wants to catch it anyway, maybe find out what it is. Is telling her to stop trying to catch the wind stoping her from developing? Could it create with in her the idea that she is a failure, it might I think if I continued to tell her what will fail. But then should I leave her to catch the wind and learn for herself?

I think it is it better to allow her to discover failure for herself, while guarding her against dangers that she cannot see. In this way she catch attempt to catch all the winds, but learn what is pointless and begin to narrow her opportunity selections.

Doors and Windows

The entrance of light can be through either a door or a window. But the window is better at letting in the light because it is always willing to do so. The door on the other hand, has to be opened and is by its very existence a closed entry. If I want light then I can go out by the door or sit by the window.

Light is by nature a straight traveller. It will pass through any that wants to allow such movement. A door is a dense object, thick and not at all transparent. (mostly. Why is a glass door called a door, when clearly it has all the properties a window, yet its disguised as a door)
A door is a security, it is protection and it is a closed entry. What are we keeping out? It isn’t the light, because we have windows. Interestingly the very things we want to keep out are people. These same people have doors too. All together we can claim that the humans have invented doors, to keep out the light.

Since light is what we crave, if we all gave up doors then we wouldn’t need windows. We could lay in the light all the day and went night comes we could sleep in the light of the moon and the stars.

What would we then have to fuss about? Its the doors, open the doors and the light will come in.

A reality worth aligning to…

This last week I participated in some training for the new role I’ll start in March. Sitting in a classroom with various amounts of Hardware, touch panels and PC’s got me thinking about who’s reality are we living in. I asked the question from the instructor about matrixies, because we where creating if… then… statements and loops of instructions, how far can one ask an if… then… statement. He answered the sytem will allow up to 5 dimensions of statements. What? I know he was talking about arrays and data within data related to but contained within and yet mutually exclusive from the first, however I struggle to picture a 5th dimension of data.

Someone in the class pipped up and said, well there are 10 dimensions… ok.. not helpful but, cool. He even said there’s a video on the net about it. Imagining the 10th Dimension would take some explaining so here is the link, I’ll leave it to your imagination. 

This got me thinking then what if… then realities. What if we are all immortal beings living in a mortal experience… then this mortality is not real. The immortally would be real. If the reality is that we are immortal then we must exist outside this reality we call mortality and therefore if we die then we continue to be immortal then we exist and if we exist then we must be thinkers and have consciousness otherwise we couldn’t consider that we are immortal…. On the other hand if we are only mortals living in a mortal experience then this reality ends at death. If it ends with our life being extinguished, then did we ever exist? If we did then we can only be immortal because of the memory continuing if the memory of our existence where to extinguish as soon as we died, then no one would feel grief or guilt, and since we do, then mortality cannot simply be the explanation of what reality this is.

If I am intelligent now, then I must have been capable of being intelligent before I became such. Its a stretch but I think I did exist before I was born and not because of a belief in God that I have, but because separatly it doesn’t add up to my mind that I exist now and not before nor after this life. I conclude that we are immortal beings having a mortal experience in a reality locked in a way that increases our intelligence and when it ends will continue in a different way than the first.