When you are at work, do you go to the bathroom and use the exact same stall every time? Do you get annoyed if someone is in YOUR stall? What made you choose that particular stall?

On another note: President Bush said that Kerry would erase gains made in the past four years in the economy and U.S. security.

What gains??

I am reading this.

Here is a thought. You are a Cyborg. We all are.

What is a Cyborg? It is something which is part human and part machine. I’m not talking about people with jarvik hearts. I’m talking about you.

I wake up in the morning on my bed made out of machines and man made materials, warm in my house controlled by man made devices. I take a shower in a man-made device which pumps water from hundreds of miles away directly onto my head at the desired temperature. I pour man made chemicals in my hair to give my dead hair follicles the desired sheen. I put on man-made fibers in pre-configured patterns onto my body to cover most of it, protecting it from nature and conforming to societies demands for how I should look visually.

I ride my man-made machine on a man-made road to a man-made tunnel to ride another machine to visit another man made place where I walk into another machine which lifts me 200 feet into the air and allows me to go to a specific place where I am welcomed. I sit down and talk to my machine. It can’t hear me so I have to type all of my instructions on mad-made computer-man interface devices. My “job” is to use the machine and tell it to do things that it can not do on its own. My special function is that I know the correct commands to give the machine. Other people give the machine different commands. My entire value in society is focused on what I can tell the machine.

Whether the machine is a computer, or a hammer or chisel, it doesn’t matter. Our entire lives are completely surrounded and valued by our interaction with machines. We live and breathe machines from the day we are born to the day we die. We live as Cyborgs, part human, and part machine. The difference between me and an aborigine in Australia is that my machines are better that theirs. But they have their own machines like knifes and water jugs.

We literally can not survive without machines, the way a lion or a dolphin does. We are Cyborgs.

Now the question really is: What does this mean? Is it bad? Is it good? What will the future bring if this is true?

Google does not have a great business plan. Just because they are popular doesn’t make them a 30 Billion dollar company. I’m not buying. This doesn’t mean that their stock price will go up. It just means, I don’t believe in their business. But then again, I have no experience in financial matters, so what the hell do I know.

In the post-modern world, perception is reality.

Speaking of which…
“I think, therefore, I think I am.”

“Nothing can be proven. Anything can be disproved. Anything “true” can be packaged and sold as false and vice-versa.”

“The purpose of Wisdom is to dispel fear.”

I’ve been looking for a book and can not seem to find it, so I think I’m going to write it instead. Here is the general idea:

Building a Business Web Application User Interface for Internet Explorer using CSS and DHTML. How to design and build an intuitive, scalable and flexible business app. This will include interaction design standards, plus how to implement it.

I’m going to start working on it soon. Ideas for a title?

This is cool.

This weekend is the Democratic convention in Boston. Hopefully it will be interesting. Maybe I’m being optimistic. Probably.

CBS News has this page called The Note. It’s very good, but man, its long. How much can happen each day??

Only 1 hour after arriving at the hospital, our third baby boy squirted out.  (Much better than the 18 hour marathons we were used to!)

Matthew Cal LipkaBorn: July 17, 2004 - 6:30pm
Weight: 7.5 lbs
Height: 20 in
Fingers: 10
Toes: 10:)

Baby name thought: When we were thinking of names, it was impossible not to think of people in high school with the same name. In High School, I lived near Matthew Stopnick for example. Its wierd how you associate names, huh?

Can’t seem to wake up today.
Too bad I don’t drink Coffee.

On a technology note: I am setting up to work within a J2EE environement, so Im installing Eclipse, WinCVS, WebLogic, Apache Ant and the Java J2SE SDK. I don’t think I need Tomcat or Struts, but who knows. What ever happened to the old days when you just needed a text editor and a web server?

Is Struts html tags better than JSTL? What about Java Faces versus Struts Tiles? Man, no wonder Im tired. This is exhausting.

I have a new job in San Francisco. So far, it’s the best job I’ve ever had. And sometime this/next week, I will have a third son.

Here is my philosophy of life:

When things go bad, just think that the bad thing is a credit for 1 equal good thing in the future. So when you die, you have a roughly even amount. A bad high school experience means you might have a good retirement or something.

When things go good, then stop your complaining and enjoy the moment. Things are good!

This way, you spend most of your life feeling groovy.

Is this a good philosophy? Im reading this book to help me know.

It seems that congress is about to vote on a constitutional amendment to ban same sex marriage. How lame are the Republicans on this issue. They say, “Don’t you dare limit my right to have guns! But let’s limit someone else’s right to file a joint tax return!” There has never been an amendment to limit rights, only to expand them. I hope this next election has a backlash against the religious ridiculous right. Just for the recond, I’m a progressive capitalist, in the spirit of Henry Wallace.

Moveon.org has further info.