My best friend cant even go out and get a job because of a mistake me made when he was younger? At what point do we look at the things people do and put them in perspective? There are bank exec's who steal billions and get away with it...every day!
I love tech, but I hate that the information that is so available and not put into context. Instead its used as blanket reasons to deny good people of jobs, housing, and qualified banking options (he has to pay a liquor store to cash his check)
Maybe it's time we start evaluating people based on meeting them, not just on what comes up when you enter their SSN into a database!
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Smart kid...please use your gifts for something else
There is a boy out there who is 12 years old and he is truely gifted! He is challanging some of the hardest problems in pysics. http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110329/ts_yblog_thelookout/for-12-year-old-astrophysics-prodigy-the-skys-the-limit
This is great and all but, shouldn't we point him tward solar energy and other global problems that may help us today like...curing caner? Don't get me wrong, I know there are a lot of questions about how the universe started and where we came from, but we seem to have some more pressing issues to attack?
I for one would give this kid all the resourses at our disposal and say...FEED EVERYONE! Certainly there has to be a way to use his mental V8 to give us some answers for tomorrow not just from millions of years ago. Now there are those out there that say "study the past and you can get answers for the future". That only works if we have a future!
Great work kid! Your gift is amazing! Now use it to help us!
This is great and all but, shouldn't we point him tward solar energy and other global problems that may help us today like...curing caner? Don't get me wrong, I know there are a lot of questions about how the universe started and where we came from, but we seem to have some more pressing issues to attack?
I for one would give this kid all the resourses at our disposal and say...FEED EVERYONE! Certainly there has to be a way to use his mental V8 to give us some answers for tomorrow not just from millions of years ago. Now there are those out there that say "study the past and you can get answers for the future". That only works if we have a future!
Great work kid! Your gift is amazing! Now use it to help us!
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
The first rant!
Being the first post I should address the title of the blog...
Its all true, and then some! I found out I was bipolar at the very young age of 33. I always knew something was different, but I just figured I was ok the way I was. I quickly feel into drugs and alcohol to "self medicate" they tell me now!? Thanks for waiting three decades to fill me in that there was something to help me.
In spite of all the meds (which do help) I still drink very heavily and don't really see a time that will stop. I do on the other hand know that I could have achieved much more had I applied myself in any way...if only I could have. Anyway that's enough of the pity party, because in spite of how fucked I have lived my life I still have more sense than most "normal" people.
Why are there so many people chasing this dream of more? I owned my own business, worked hard, and still found myself wanting more? Let me fill all of you out there in on one thing...more will never be enough. I can make anyone like me for a short time. I have always had the ability to make people believe anything I want them to at any time I needed them to believe it. People are so desperate to hear what they want that they will believe anything. Try walking into a bank and tell them you run a big family trust and you want to talk to them about moving some business to their bank. (dress the part) They will take you to lunch at the country club, dinner, and all without even looking into your story...GREED!
I have done things that you would say "who fell for that?". The answer is you and anyone you know. I no longer do those things but I was not even shocked when the Madoff story broke. All those people sitting and crying about how they lost all their money and they were swindled? Give me a break! I know for a fact that they were throwing money at him without ever once considering "how can this be happening?". They didn't care as long as that piece of paper kept coming every month telling them they made more money.
Where did we go wrong? What are we doing to fix it? Is anyone even asking these questions? More importantly...if they are asking who is answering? I was con man in the true sense of the word...and it takes on to spot one. I look at every fortune 500 company and Washington and, I spot alot of them. Now I want to make this clear, there are alot of great people in those places too...they are just too out numbered to matter.
The point of the first post is that there is no pattern to future posts, just whatever I feel needs to come out at the time. More for me than you.
Its all true, and then some! I found out I was bipolar at the very young age of 33. I always knew something was different, but I just figured I was ok the way I was. I quickly feel into drugs and alcohol to "self medicate" they tell me now!? Thanks for waiting three decades to fill me in that there was something to help me.
In spite of all the meds (which do help) I still drink very heavily and don't really see a time that will stop. I do on the other hand know that I could have achieved much more had I applied myself in any way...if only I could have. Anyway that's enough of the pity party, because in spite of how fucked I have lived my life I still have more sense than most "normal" people.
Why are there so many people chasing this dream of more? I owned my own business, worked hard, and still found myself wanting more? Let me fill all of you out there in on one thing...more will never be enough. I can make anyone like me for a short time. I have always had the ability to make people believe anything I want them to at any time I needed them to believe it. People are so desperate to hear what they want that they will believe anything. Try walking into a bank and tell them you run a big family trust and you want to talk to them about moving some business to their bank. (dress the part) They will take you to lunch at the country club, dinner, and all without even looking into your story...GREED!
I have done things that you would say "who fell for that?". The answer is you and anyone you know. I no longer do those things but I was not even shocked when the Madoff story broke. All those people sitting and crying about how they lost all their money and they were swindled? Give me a break! I know for a fact that they were throwing money at him without ever once considering "how can this be happening?". They didn't care as long as that piece of paper kept coming every month telling them they made more money.
Where did we go wrong? What are we doing to fix it? Is anyone even asking these questions? More importantly...if they are asking who is answering? I was con man in the true sense of the word...and it takes on to spot one. I look at every fortune 500 company and Washington and, I spot alot of them. Now I want to make this clear, there are alot of great people in those places too...they are just too out numbered to matter.
The point of the first post is that there is no pattern to future posts, just whatever I feel needs to come out at the time. More for me than you.
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