Hybrid Life Hack

A very cool trick to do to yourself if you're in a life rut. List all the jobs you've ever had in your life. All on one piece of paper. Preferably, make a mind-map of them, putting them in bubbles all over the page. Space them out enough so that you can draw lines between them, then draw those lines.

The lines themselves need to be thoughts, stringing together the two jobs. Fast Food Assistant Manager connects with Radio Shack stock boy via "retail, mall, easy" or "sucky, free food, corporation". Try to stay positive, though. When you've connected a few jobs, see if you can make a hat-trick. Use the connecting phrases to help describe the new job or hybrid optimization of those two. You'll see new jobs and career paths opening up and perhaps one will shine for you, but keep going until you've made at least 3 solid job connections.

If you do it with the faith required and hope injected, you'll see new possibilities for a brand new (but incorporating the old) life for yourself. Another stepping stone perhaps. If you don't find the connections this round, take another look at it later. Maybe the only thing that comes from it is "I hate retail jobs" or "I don't like working in the outdoors for non-profits". That's a great thing to know...

Think Fast, Hippie!

A bumper sticker on the back of my late great friend Damien's car. It has a silhouette of a running guy with longish hair trailing behind. It means something more than it's facade of funny... It's a call to action. If you're a hippie, you DO have to think fast. Storm's a comin', and you gots ta get ready. Is that revolution I smell in the air?

1968 Miami #2

Its a feeling , its a time, it's a song, a color and a culture.
Unlocked front doors.
Neighbor kids. Cousins. Simon and Garfunkel. Sandals. Innocence.
Chasing lizards in the back yard. Joan Baez.
Creamsicles and Coke and fireworks on a warm night.
Running barefoot on hellishly hot pavement en route to the neighbors'
pool. Jim Croce. Nixon. Palm trees. Safety.

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Quckly find your Geek

A band name , an album name, a warning call.
If you're a geek and you're proud, you best get to finding your partner. We geeks tend to be slower on the draw in terms of mating, and often underestimate our own attractiveness and selectability. That's the mating part.

If you're not a Geek, you should find a friend in your world who is one and figure out what they are trying to say. They are here for the good of the world and come in peace. Support your local Geek, and you will be rewarded beyond your wildest dreams.

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A month of ideas, and a new idea

Hey Idea Peeps: thanks for sticking it out with me. For those of you who have subscribed to my RSS feed, thanks a ton. It's been one month now since my first idea postings, and I've achieved my goals for this month and then some. My goal is to come up with an average of 3 novel ideas per day. A month later, I've got 153 entries, which if you subtract 3 non-idea ideas (like voting for Obama), I'm still at 150 ideas (including band names and album names). Break that down on a per diem basis and you've got an average of 5 ideas per day. Hooray for me, but to what end? I'll be exploring this question as the ideas roll out...

Zen garden carpet

Tell me you don't want a thick shag carpet that looks like white gravel and comes with a cool bamboo rake for making zen inspired designs. If you tell me you don't want this, you don't like Japan or anything groovy. Just kidding, you are way groovy.

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iPhone stylus and digital brush

Like for my old Wacom pad. For the eventual drawing app after the SDK
comes out. I do like the precision of a stylus. Fo sho.

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