Purpose of Change
You say you want to make a change in the world. What will you do once you attain it? What's preventing you from doing that already?
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Intention
If you know what ought to be done, then do it. Don't cite an excuse for your action.
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Personas
Who are you if you take on a different persona at every hour? Would anyone truly ever know you? Would you even know yourself?
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Understanding and Knowing
Sometimes we understand too much, but we don't know enough to express it.
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Caring Too Much
Sometimes people refuse to care because they know they will end up caring too much.
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School and College
Where in school there was a sense of buildup and progression, in college there is but a series of intermissions, a collection of fragments along a flattened stairway, a constant scramble to proceed as quickly as possible without a destination.
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Being Perfect
Being perfect is subjective, based on one's own beliefs and values, but many of us can't even match that.
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Some of the Whole
Sometimes, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts only because we can't add.
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Used To
I used to fold flowers, cranes, and flying saucers.
Now I only fold black and white brochures.
Now I only fold black and white brochures.
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Stranger Than Fiction
Truth is stranger than fiction only if you lack imagination.
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New Encore CS5 Flash/Web DVD Features
Finally had a chance to look at the Flash export for Encore CS5 and I have to say I wasn’t expecting any changes actually but it’s very nice to see they updated the playback features on it. The usual chubby looking buttons for pause and skip are now replaced with a sleek little bar for playback, volume, subtitles, and even search:
The best improvement I think so far is the ability to scrub (seek) in the video, instead of just skipping through chapters. The search feature lets you find chapters that contain a keyword and actually allows search engines to find your Flash file as well, but for an actual movie, I haven’t found much use for it yet.
While I like the new features though and the redesign, there are a few issues:
- Playback controls show up on menus. In previous versions they were hidden until a video started playing. Here they overlap the menu constantly as soon as you move the mouse.
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Passing of Dreams
A young influential doctor is called in to assist in the operation of an elderly high-profile patient. The patient has been left in a paralyzed state by unknown causes but continues to have thought processes and dreams; the paralysis is believed to have a mental rather than physical basis. New technology by an experimenter is being used that would allow the doctor to enter the patient's dreams in an attempt to free him from his condition. The doctor was chosen because the technology is not entirely understood, and it is hoped the doctor would be able to figure the situation out quickly once inside the patient's mind.
The doctor is placed into a deep sleep next to the patient, his head in a device connected to the head of the patient's. The scene pans across the patient's brown eyes to the blue eyes of the doctor, the irises of which are blue. The doctor awakens in a bed that is not his own and quickly realizes he is in the mind of the patient....[More]
The doctor is placed into a deep sleep next to the patient, his head in a device connected to the head of the patient's. The scene pans across the patient's brown eyes to the blue eyes of the doctor, the irises of which are blue. The doctor awakens in a bed that is not his own and quickly realizes he is in the mind of the patient....[More]
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Fraying Strands
Into how many fraying strands can a thread be split before it no longer has a core?
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