What is true responsibility?
Posted on | November 5, 2008 | No Comments
It’s a big question. Since everything in life is truly subjective, I say that responsibility is a personal belief that we each must choose to hold in our own ways.
At this moment, the election is being called in favor of Barack Obama. Hope. Hope, is the key word used by all the campaign posted, shirts, banners and image bugs I’ve seen, as much as I have tried to avoid being in contact with any of it.
Hope.
Hope combats ennui.
As dictionary.com defines “hope”
| 1. | the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best: to give up hope. |
| 2. | a particular instance of this feeling: the hope of winning. |
| 3. | grounds for this feeling in a particular instance: There is little or no hope of his recovery. |
| 4. | a person or thing in which expectations are centered: The medicine was her last hope. |
| 5. | something that is hoped for: Her forgiveness is my constant hope. |
–verb (used with object)
| 6. | to look forward to with desire and reasonable confidence. |
| 7. | to believe, desire, or trust: I hope that my work will be satisfactory. |
–verb (used without object)
| 8. | to feel that something desired may happen: We hope for an early spring. |
| 9. | Archaic. to place trust; rely (usually fol. by in). |
—Idiom
| 10. | hope against hope, to continue to hope, although the outlook does not warrant it: We are hoping against hope for a change in her condition. |
There are apparently many things in the media now that people are talking about: police actions in foreign lands, recession, stock market woes, apparently bad leadership, and I believe all these things do affect many people. But it does affect more people in an adverse way than I believe necessary. The media effect echoes and reverberates opinions loud and long… But in the end, whose responsibility is it to change the world? Each and every one of us.
Many chose to add their personal power to today by voting in favor of a man who stands for change. Change from what we’re unhappy about to perhaps what we can be happy with. I hope this is the case. In no way am I stating a negative view of this, I just know that I take my personal responsibilities very seriously.
This is one reason why I did not vote. I do not watch television, read the newspaper, listen to radio or engage in news media on the Web. I was and remain am blissfully unaware of all details leading up to today’s win by Obama. I am glad that people are happy at this moment, however, I remain clear in believing that we all make change on a daily basis one thing at a time.
Congratulations to everyone who believed passionately in hope. Please keep participating as passionately. Do not remove hope from your motivators. Roll up your sleeves, keep smiling and start changing the world YOU live in.
And true responsibility? What do you believe in? Good. Live up to it. They are your beliefs, now go live them.
Department of Eagles 1st live concert in MP3
Posted on | November 3, 2008 | No Comments
So i was checking around to see if the B-Side to the 7″ vinyl I bought was available as an MP3 someplace on the interweb (lazy me I don’t want to set up to rip it for myself…), and I found that I Guess I’m Floating, a music blog I’ve been to before, has a passable bootleg of the show at the Bell House on 10/6/08! Happy day - I was on a plane and couldn’t attend the show.
Looks like three new songs during the show, plus one of my favs - Sailing by Night - excellent, open take on the song. I must repeat that Daniel Rossen is a musical genius.
I suck at pool.
Posted on | November 2, 2008 | No Comments
I really do! I am terrible. Zoo Broker tried to teach me fundamentals during our road trip. So, I decided to work on my fundamentals, and all I found out is that I am mental.
Two nights ago, I went out with a co-worker who almost completely schooled me. Amazing. If I hadn’t huddled all my balls around the 8 ball, I would have lost at least two more games. And, he pointed out, I know nothing about english and I hold my stick too high.
Old habits die hard. SO I went out again last night and it was no better. I am still amazingly sucky at pool.
Riveting post, eh?
Music: Breathe Owl Breathe
Posted on | October 30, 2008 | 1 Comment
For about 3 weeks now, the Ghost Glacier album from Breathe Owl Breathe has been filling my moments with happy, smiling music. I really can’t express how much joy it brought to my life. Sincerely, thank you for making such beautiful, touching music. And thank you, Michigan for giving them someplace to live.
My favorite tracks from Ghost Glacier are Sabertooth Tiger, Playing Dead and Drop and Roll, but there is nothing to complain about on the entire 8 track album. It’s a peaceful, passionate state of being.
Links: Main Site, MySpace, CDbaby
And now that I visited CDbaby, I found that there are three more albums I don’t have! How exciting. I just bought them and am going to listen to them tonight as I drift off to sleep with a smile on my face.
Business or Personal? Facebook is making people think thrice about how much to share (PART 2)
Posted on | October 29, 2008 | No Comments
Time for another round of insights, since it’s been a while since I’ve weighed in on this and lots has happened since.
Let’s talk about photographs. One of my passions! Love shooting them, love sharing them. I could easily be a professional, but instead I choose to work inside the industry and enjoy my photography as a fun, yet serious passion (I have been shooting for 15 years now). The social photographs are very tempting to upload and share on Facebook, but not everyone holds my beliefs (grin). Point being that some people still desire to have a separate private and business life and some things cross the line. Definitely fair, and I respect that.
Note: On the heels of a burlesque post, you may be tempted to think this has something to do with that… you would be wrong!
In fact, some have gone so far as to de-tag themselves from photos I posted! Whoops! So, I simply adjusted my process. I’ll post photos now, but not tag people in them. If my friends wish to identify themselves by tagging, let them do so. In fact, an old memory popped into my head of when there was a photo of me of when I was, ahem, a bit more robust than I am now. I de-tagged that one only five months ago. So, not only do I respect that point of view, but at one point I completely empathized.
I did discover that AFTER you upload a photo, you can set privacy options. Nice touch, but it should be DURING upload that you can set this (think: flickr).
Here is how to do it. In your profile, click on the edit button next to the photo:
Click on edit privacy and you will see this:
You can also customize the privacy to tailor who can and cannot see the photos:
As you can see, you can be considerate of other people’s wishes for privacy after posting a photo. :) And, you can post a picture just for someone else! Awwww, how romantic.
Originally, I had set this to “friends of friends” in the situation I describe above. Clearly not a good choice!
Another option is to always just send the photos to your friends via email (LOL). But how would I have learned this wonderful lesson if I had not?
The part I need to test out is if you choose to allow a photo to only be visible to one of more specific friends, does it indicate to them? Must test! To the Batmobile!
After editing, I went out to the “Home” page and the test image I allowed only three friends to see is not in my list of updates. Interesting. Since it’s late and I spent about 2 1/2 hours on the phone with various tech supports trying to get a domain and eCommerce site up tonight, I am not going to go ask my friends what they see. But, I will soon and post an update with screenshots of what they see.
I seem to remember an article where they spoke about college coaches going on FB and seeing what players broke the drinking code via photos posted by friends from the previous night’s shenanigans. Hilarious.
To reiterate, on Facebook be yourself, post photos, have fun. But if someone else wants a little privacy, you may want to consider it (right after) uploading.
Tags: custom settings in facebook > photographs on facebook > privacy
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