Friday, April 29, 2005

I have my towel.
I've resisted the urge to panic.
Heading out to dinner and what should hopefully be a great movie.

posted by AnonymousCanine @ 4/29/2005 05:47:00 PM 0 comments

Thursday, April 28, 2005

And thus begineth the quest for housing in the real world. Went in search of housing with friend, and while we were unsuccessful in actually arranging to look at anything today, it made me feel a lot better. Tomorrow we are scheduled to actually look at places. (One of you has e-mail regarding this.)

I'll be nice to start really feeling independant and no longer a Cub.

Oh, and btw, for those of you who may not have noticed: The new line of fetish material has arrived let the call to hunt begin.

posted by AnonymousCanine @ 4/28/2005 12:53:00 AM 0 comments

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

The Importance of Communication

Three important quotes:

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent." - John Donne


This one deals with the idea that nobody is ever truly alone. Humans are social creatures. They don't function well without interaction with other creatures. As a result, in order to function well with humans, one must be skilled in the simple, yet sometimes overlooked skill of communication. All too often, humans themselves overlook this, and fail to communicate well with one another. Most often this comes in the form of assuming certain ideas have been communicated without truly ensuring that it has.

There's one very very simple way of doing this. Be blunt. If you want to express idea A, don't express ideas B and C in the hopes that the person will realize you are thinking about A. Say it! Say it bluntly! If you say A, then nobody can claim they didn't realize that's what you meant.

The world would be a better place if people were more open about what they thought.


"people are people because of other people" - Saying of Shona People of South Africa


This is similar to the previous quote. The idea is that people are not defined in and of themselves. You are defined by your interactions with others. Who do you keep close as friends? Who to you consider your pack members? Who do you avoid? People are defined by other people. Nobody is a person in and of themselves.


"Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital." - Aaron Levenstein


This one has a very simple purpose. The previous two quotes were serious. And I figured I'd amuse myself with a bikini image. Really though, the idea ties in with the idea of what about yourself do you show others? What do you hide? (Yeah, I know I'm stretching here).

Oh, and people need to learn to understand math, or they may never realize the beauty of what's hidden behind the statistics/bikini.

posted by AnonymousCanine @ 4/26/2005 12:15:00 AM 0 comments

Monday, April 25, 2005

If its worth doing, then its worth doing again.

If you're gonna start playing with a new set of toys, then you might as well try out all of the toys available right?

LiveJournal copy
This Copy (BlogSpot)

posted by AnonymousCanine @ 4/25/2005 11:31:00 AM 0 comments

Introductions



The above cartoon is from the New Yorker, to steal someone else's disclaimer:

The above cartoon by Peter Steiner has been reproduced from page 61 of July 5, 1993 issue of The New Yorker, (Vol.69 (LXIX) no. 20)only for academic discussion, evaluation, research and complies with the copyright law of the United States as defined and stipulated under Title 17 U. S. Code.


Comes from University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication

I figure this serves as a nice introduction to people. If you can't figure out the relevance then... well... you're either illiterate or lazy. Either way you're on your own.

That's about all I'm going to tell you about myself. The rest you're going to need to figure out on your own.

Further Comments:

  • I make no promises about the frequency, honesty, quality, or length of posts, nor for response times on comments.
  • This, for now, is purely experimental. So if you're gonna friend me, don't be surprised if I don't reciprocate. Though, I'm interested in meeting other glaswanderern if there are any out there.
  • Forget not the rule of three, and power of the pack.

posted by AnonymousCanine @ 4/25/2005 11:13:00 AM 0 comments