thoughts

Speed doesn’t kill

There is an excellent article in Cyprus Mail by Barry Faulkner. Barry explains why thinking that speed driving kills by itself is wrong. He says all the same things I was telling for years now. The only difference is that he is way more an experienced driver than I am. He was a law enforcement officer for 11 years and trainer for traffic police officers for 16 years.

The article also mentions a RoADS website which promotes safe and defensive driving on Cyprus roads. It mentions regular meetings and courses – something that I have been passively looking for for some time now.

Finally!

Thought of the day

It never occured to me before, that I never particularly liked the next day after a drinking party. I guess noone does. The hangover reason is obvious. I wonder if there is anyone in the whole wide world who likes hangover…

Soap Opera

The TV was on and there was this soap opera that goes on and on for years and years. One of the characters is supposedely a successful businessmen, owner of a large corporation and multimillioner. The same actor was noticed in a very similar role in another soap opera.

I haven’t seen many multimillioners in my life, but I am pretty sure neither one of them looks and acts like that guy. Actually he resembles a multimillioner and a successful businessmen much less than I do. And I don’t. At all.

Now imagine a guy, who has two jobs for years – playing a role of an extremely rich guy in some cheap soap opera. Every day. Day after day. Month after month. Year after year. Financial difficulties are probably not a strange thing to him. And yet he has to go to his job ever day and pretend that he is a rich guy. And than he has to go his other job and pretend that he is a rich guy again.

I think that jobs like this, repeated for a long period of time, can mix with the real life really badly. Depressions, alcoholism, humiliations… Tough choice. Still, better than no job at all.

Weird

My boss has left the company. I had to delete his account and clean some groups and other access lists. It felt very weird. It felt like a beginning of the end. Although it’s not.

Not to mention that removing one of the global administrators, who had access virtually to every corner of the network, is not a trivial job…

Children vs. adults

It’s interesting how some adult things are more obvious to children than to some adults. I witnessed this many times with different kids. Today I came across yet another examle.

A Brief Conversation with Charlie (age 4) About Politics and Conservation:
HIM: Dad, are there bad guys?
ME: Yeah, I suppose there are.
HIM: Do we know any bad guys?
ME: No. No, I don’t think we do.
HIM: Is Bush a bad guy?
ME: Bush?
HIM: The President. Bush. Is he a bad guy?
ME: Well, I think he really believes that…uh…well, some people have different opinions than other people…uh…
HIM: But he wants to drill in the arctic! And that will hurt the animals! We have to stop him and make him go away! People need to stop building so many houses! We have to stop Bush! People shouldn’t drive their cars so much!
ME: Hey, get your shoes on.