Re: Beginning

Thinking about moving my J from AOL following their censorship of one of the best damned journals around... so, I'll start here with the same post I started with there -

Let's see how this goes... part rant, part raising the B.S. flag, and two parts common sense. Mix that up in a blender and throw it in an online journal and you get a big serving of Un-Common Sense. So, I got the name from a book by J. Robert Oppenheimer (a real smart guy)... it's not like any of our thoughts are entirely original. Every thing we know is a product of our experiences and, with that, a quote from Oppenheimer himself:

Whatever trouble life holds for you, that part of your lives which you spend finding out about things, things that you can tell others about, and that you can learn from them, that part will be essentially a gay, a sunny, a happy life, not untouched by rivalry, maybe not even untouched by an occasional regret that somebody else thought of something that you should have thought of first, but on the whole, one of those nobler parts of the human experience. This makes it true that the life of the scientist is, along with the life of the poet, soldier, prophet, and artist, deeply relevant to man's understanding of his situations and his view of destiny.

Then there was Haliburton who said, "When a man is wrong and wont admit it, he always gets angry."

I hope you find some things here in my journal that you wish you had thought of first.. maybe even something you want to tell others about. Your thoughts are welcome, but if you find yourself getting mad... well, we're all entitled to our opinions and we're all entitled to be wrong... but if you're getting angry, I refer you back to Haliburton.

Have fun, get mad and come back!