today’s latest dilemma is: how to download stuff?
one of the things that i’m struggling with is that i have about 90 or so things that i want to download. each are about 300MB or so big. that’s a lot of stuff! at first i tagged all 90 things at once, but i don’t know if that’s the best way to go about it. so instead, i’m tagging things in groups so that i can at least get things little by little instead of all at once.
bandwidth is a terrible thing to waste.
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one day, the wind pompously bragged to the sun how powerful he was. he could blow away buildings, uproot trees, and cause havoc. the sun, listening to the wind brag, decided to step into the conversation and asked the sun what is so powerful about brute force?
the wind continued to brag about how powerful he was and challenged anyone to prove that someone else could be more powerful than he. the sun came over to the wind and challenged him.
“see that man down there, wind?” asked the sun.
“yes, indeed, i do,” replied the wind.
“let’s see which of us can get his jacket off,” challenged the sun.
“it’s a deal.”
the wind came up and drew his most powerful breath of air and blew and blew at the man, trying to shrug the jacket off of him. with every breath, the man held tighter and tighter to his jacket. eventually, the wind gave up and declared that it was impossible to get that man’s jacket off.
the sun nodded and then said he would try.
the sun then beamed with all the glory of his warmth down upon the earth to the man. the rays of sunshine warmed the man and he was compelled to take his jacket off because it was so hot.
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moral of the lesson:
sometimes the answer isn’t about brute force. sometimes there is a more elegant solution that’s easier to come by and much less painful.
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oh yeah, did i mention that i took [url=http://www.ocliw.com/things/weekends/disneyland2004/]pictures in LA?[/url] surely, i must have.
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man, i don’t know what was up with the last two days, but i felt pretty crappy. i feel much better today so i’ve been able to get some serious work done. it’s a good feeling.
last night was poker night and it has become painfully obvious that i really, really need to get another stack of white chips. i think that i may go and pick that up tonight on the way home. we’ll see. i also really want some better storage for my chips. i’m not sure where i will get that from, but i really need it bad.
we had a full house last night at poker night, barely had enough chairs to seat everyone. i guess i should start thinking about moving my table so that there’s more room around the table.
i went to sleep at a reasonable hour last night and i feel reasonably good about it. i think that i’ll be staying at work a little bit later today because i have to leave work early tomorrow.
at least the weekend is near. i’m ready for a nice good break and some rest and relaxation. maybe there will be a photo shoot in the near future.
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