Lock the doors. And hope they don't have blasters

Since Spike has hijacked my evening by showing Star Wars again, I'll kick off a series of top ten lists by running down my favorite 10 quotes from the movie. I was trying to do this on topten.com, but the site is dreadful - that's a post for another day.

It would obviously be impossible to narrow down the 10 best, so instead I'm looking for the quotes I use most often in daily life. This will necessarily consist almost entirely of Obi-Wan quotes, as I would happily listen to Alec Guinness read the phone book.

In no real order:

1. In my experience there's no such thing as luck.
2. You must do what you feel is right, of course.
3. I grow tired of asking this so it will be the last time.
4. What good is a reward if you ain't around to use it?
5. I don't know what all this trouble is about, but I'm sure it must be your fault.
6. Well that's the real trick, isn't it?
7. Who's the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?
8. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
9. This will be a day long remembered.
10. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
11. I don't know, I can imagine quite a bit.
12. Here's where the fun begins.
13. C'mon kid, we're not out of this yet.
14. You must learn the ways of the force, if you're to come with me to Alderaan.
15. That's no moon. It's a space station.
16. But I was going into Tosche Station to pick up some power converters!
17. Let the Wookiee win.
18. Utini!

Eh, top 18. Not too bad...

The Bee-Loud Glade

The Bee-Loud Glade by Steve Himmer
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Just finished this morning. So good!

I absolutely loved reading this; enough so that I spent a really long time with it. I only wanted to read it during quiet alone times. It somehow felt appropriate to share Finch's time in this way. I didn't want to rush through this book and I mean that in the best way. I frequently went back and re-read entire chapters; I so enjoyed getting into the descriptions and feelings of the character.

As a matter of interest, this is the first book that I have consumed in 3 different methods - paperback, kindle & audiobook.

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Sláinte

With this blog, I'm going to try to limit my focus to my areas of interest: music, movies, software.

With music and movies, it'll probably just boil down to my opinion of what's great and what isn't; nothing you aren't stuck listening to if you personally know me.

With software and platforms, though, I really want to look at all this stuff that makes our lives more fun and more frustrating and point out how it could be improved by following my simple and pompous design principle:
Sláinte, which I'm appropriating to stand for "so long as it's now totally effortless". Kinda clunky, but it really should all come down to that - everything we choose to add to the increasingly jumbled flea markets that we call our lives should ultimately achieve the same goal: make my life easier.

So every product, platform, service or experience really should meet this criteria. I think that most of the time, my life and others are best served by me being understanding and flexible. But I have become gradually aware that there are times in my life where I think it's my job to NOT be understanding and that the best attitude is a dismissive "so long as it's no trouble".

A Strange Man Who Can't Be Taken Seriously

Everyone must have a blog, yes?

Despite all of the advice I read about the benefits of creating content and cultivating an online presence, blah, blah, blah...there's something so inherently pompous about a blog. The idea that my inner thoughts are somehow of interest to people to such a degree that I'd better record them. You really have to have a high opinion of yourself to throw your mental garbage out of the car window and believe that your web-litter is really gold.

No problem there, then...


So instead of having a professional blog to highlight my skills learned from 15 years of working at a first class property management company, I've decided to play to my strengths and just have a snarky blog where I point out how everything would be so much better if people only took the extra step of consulting me before their every move.