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30 Day Challenge, Day 09 — A photo you took

Meme

My ninth entry in this “30 Day Challenge” is a photo that I took.

Since I take lots of pictures, I picked three that I took in the last 5 months that I thought were mentally interesting.

This one was taken with my iPhone at a friend’s house. He was hosting a birthday party for his partner. As this was the first time visiting his house, he was giving me a tour. This is what I saw on his back deck. I thought it was interesting.

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This is m (milli), the Husbear’s kitteh. She likes to look out the window. I saw her sitting there and wondered what she was thinking.

Looking Out.
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We had a snow on Christmas Day. There is an old bench that was on the property when we bought the house. I move it to different spots throughout the year. I applied a filter to this image to get this look.

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Here’s my flickr photostream if you want to see more photos I’ve taken.

Until next time...
Erik

30 Day Challenge, Day 07 — A photo that makes you happy

Meme,

My seventh entry in this “30 Day Challenge” is a photo that makes me happy.

The following photo is almost 8 years old, but it still makes me smile every time I see it.

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It’s of the Husbear showing off his kitchen in our new-to-us house that we just had our bid accepted on.

While it’s not the clearest or best photo ever taken, it does capture a special moment that I hope I never forget.

Until next time...
Erik

30 Day Challenge, Day 05 — Your favorite quote

Meme

My fifth entry in this “30 Day Challenge” is my favorite quote.

My first favorite quote that stuck with me for the longest time is the following:

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

It’s from my favorite book.

But there’s one quote that has stuck with me since I first read it, and is also by the author of my favorite book, Douglas Adams. This one is from a book called “The Salmon of Doubt“, published posthumously in 2002:

I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

  1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
  2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
  3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

Having been in the technology field for so long in my previous career, I found both axioms to be ever so true while observing those around me attempting to either create or to use technology.

And I hope I remain technologically open-minded enough to never fall in that last category.

Until next time...
Erik