I just wanted to take a few moments to wish everyone at All Programmable Planet a Happy New Year. I know it's traditional to say "Happy and Prosperous," and I certainly do hope that we all see enough money come our way to make our lives comfortable, but for myself I think the most important things are to be happy and healthy and to love and be loved.
The scary thing is how fast time seems to be passing. When I graduated from high school in the summer of 1975, I remember hanging out in the park with my friends chatting about the end of the millennium -- the year 2000 -- which was, at that time, a quarter of a century away (let's not get into a "Which year really is the end of the millennium" discussion here).
Year by year, 2000 came closer and closer until, suddenly, "whoosh!" It zipped by, and now it's 13 years in the past. Give me strength! I'm too young for all of this excitement!
And now, here we are on the first day of a brand-spanking new year that is doubtless jam-packed with opportunities and possibilities. I'm sure that there will be all sorts of goodies to enjoy and fun things to see and do. I, for one, cannot wait!
What a wonderful life it is! How lucky we all are! Happy New Year!
Re: Happy New Year to Everyone on All Programmable Planet!
Max, money/wealth plays an important role in everybody's life. The general fact is for money/wealth accumulation, nobody use the word "enough". It always has a temptation to accumulate more. In other words Greed for money/wealth.
Max Maxfield 1/3/2013 9:32:54 AM User Rank Blogger
Re: Happy New Year to Everyone on All Programmable Planet!
@Myplanet: Max, so you have to wish for that too.
Of course -- I live from pay-check to pay-check just like everyone else I know. I think having extreme wealth would cause its own problems (although if "push came to shove" I wouldn't mind giving it a try [grin]), but I would certainly like to have enough in the bank to not HAVE to work any more -- just do the fun stuff if I wanted to.
It woudl be nice to knwo that there were sufficient funds available to cover stuff like medical expenses, and it would also be nice to have enough money to travel the world -- there are lots of places I woudl love to see.
Also I have a lot of hobby projects I'd liek to spend more tiem on -- also I'd like to go back to university -- not to get another degree or anything like that -- just to "cherry pick" courses in which I would be interested like Ancient History on Tuesdays and Python Programmaing on Thursdays :-)
Re: Happy New Year to Everyone on All Programmable Planet!
Well, I was one of the 1st people in town to own a computer - I saved up from my various jobs and bought an Atari 400, along with 2 floppy disks, a tape recorder, and a 7-pin *color* (!) printer.
Later, my uncle got an IBM PC ($2500!). I was mostly unimpressed. Looking back at all that's happened since then, I kinda wish I'd picked up one of those & started learning programming for it.
Out of HS I went into the USAF as an Electronics tech. I figured out I really like that stuff, and that's what convinced me to go to kolij for EE whan I got out. Since then, I've pretty much proven that I can't engineer my way out of a wetpaper bag, but I enjoy it nonetheless..
The appellation "primary colors" refers to a small collection of colors that can be combined to form a range of additional colors, but which "small collection of colors" should we use as our primaries?
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