Trailblazers

I am an elephant.

I go places, shaking my tusks, trunk blaring and ears flaring: this is what mammoths do.
My footprints have graced many virgin slopes. Sometimes, thanks to my elephantine memory, I even knew that what I was doing was new and that I had found some unspoiled playground: this is how mammoths are.
I even bragged about it first, so for others not to infringe on my hot bragging rights: this is why other mammoths are woolly and I not. This why they are extinct, and I not.

Because I have beaten the less travelled path, I am here to bring this testimony: be unafraid of sea monsters. You have already ground your tusks on what you know, so what may scratch your itch is still unknown. The chart is not the territory, so go far, deep, and fast if you can, bring novelty to the world, and shake your tusks, keep your trunk high and your ears flared ;-)

Seaside friends

Funny how you may be favourably surprised when you are not busy screening and deflecting.

My New Year's Eve with the HR gal, or a night at the zoo.

- "So, how come you are still single?"
- "I have been told recently that I have an issue with intimacy and trust."
- "That's pretty honest and straightforward."
- "Well, this is quite new to me. I used to answer something like 'I am not single, I am a zoophile. And while the profound and meaningful relationship I have with Dolly allows me to go past the social stigma, I still feel that her social, not to say hygienic, skills are lacking.', which usually got me classified as fully tanked and ready to go."
- ...
- "And if that was not enough, I went by saying something like 'You have really nice hairs. A pity they are not curled. It would look great on you.'"
- "Baaaaaaa"

I know: I rule.

todo

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,

butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance

accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders,

give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new

problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight

efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

- Robert A.Heinlein

One to go. Not the easiest though.

B2R

There is no good, there is no evil.
There are no good guys, there are no bad guys.
There is only the world you want to live in.
The goal shouldn't be to win, but not to loose.
At any cost.