Man, I nearly forgot about this thing.
A few thoughts running through my head today:
– happy father’s day! (8-8 in chinese sounds a lot like “ba ba” which means “father”) i guess that means i should call my dad.
– so happy it’s saturday and i’m not at work! i’ve picked up a couple of really fun projects, but the execution is going to be really challenging.
– finally starting up a food blog and tinkering with it here.
I cannot get over the fact that blogging is SO MUCH EASIER than when i first started back in 2001. I launched into a whole glee-filled rant yesterday at lunch (and TOTALLY annoyed my lunch companions.. oops) about how amazed I was to see that these new systems now are so extensible and powerful and yet easy to use. Why, back in the old days, you had to become best friends with BBEdit and hard code in every link and picture, figure out and commit to directory structures that you’d learn the hard way were flawed, and have to spend anguished weeks trying to shoehorn in some unique functionality (like sideblogs) into your page. Kids these days have it so easy! Today’s version of WordPress makes this all so insanely simple! They don’t know how good they have it! <shakes cane vigorously>
</end old man>
Anyway, blogging is fun again. The tinkerer in me is getting giddy with all these new web thingies to play with!!! =)
On a more personal note, this blog got super-duper emo for a while (hey man, I was going through a lot of tough shit!), but time heals all wounds, you grow up and realize the error of your ways, learn to have faith in people in spite of their (and your own) fallibility and move the fuck on. I don’t feel as young as I used to feel, although I still have a “i’m so young and stupid” moment at least once a day. Wish I could fast forward to knowing it all already!
There’s a phrase in Chinese called “zuo ren” that literally means “being a person”. Zhongwen.com defines it as “behaves, conducts oneself.” I want to do it better and better for myself. Maybe some self-examination will help. So I guess, reader, you are not free from the emo yet!