Humbling experiences
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Folks, we live in an amazing world. No matter how good you are at something, there are others out there who are monumentally better at it than you. This is a very good thing!! Yesterday I had two of these humbling experiences. Earlier in the day I played a piece on the piano that I've been practicing for who-knows-how-many months. I'm happy with how I play it, but later on, almost by chance, I heard a real concert pianist play that same piece. His rendition was outstanding and made mine sound like the ramblings of a mad fool. :) The other day I wrote, what I consider to be, my best article ever. I'm very happy with the quality of the prose, which is something I've struggled to improve on every article. I felt that my writing style was "getting there." Then, last night, I started reading "Alexander Hamilton[^]" and was blown away by the author's eloquence and style. Suddenly my writing looked like the ramblings of a mad fool! :laugh: But, as I said before, this is a good thing. The world would be very boring if nobody was exceptionally good at something.
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] All of life is just a big rambling blog post.
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Folks, we live in an amazing world. No matter how good you are at something, there are others out there who are monumentally better at it than you. This is a very good thing!! Yesterday I had two of these humbling experiences. Earlier in the day I played a piece on the piano that I've been practicing for who-knows-how-many months. I'm happy with how I play it, but later on, almost by chance, I heard a real concert pianist play that same piece. His rendition was outstanding and made mine sound like the ramblings of a mad fool. :) The other day I wrote, what I consider to be, my best article ever. I'm very happy with the quality of the prose, which is something I've struggled to improve on every article. I felt that my writing style was "getting there." Then, last night, I started reading "Alexander Hamilton[^]" and was blown away by the author's eloquence and style. Suddenly my writing looked like the ramblings of a mad fool! :laugh: But, as I said before, this is a good thing. The world would be very boring if nobody was exceptionally good at something.
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] All of life is just a big rambling blog post.
Josh Smith wrote:
The world would be very boring if nobody was exceptionally good at something.
I see what you did here. You drawn attention away from yourself. You actually meant to say "The world would be very boring if nobody sucked at something." Smart ... pretty smart ...
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
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Folks, we live in an amazing world. No matter how good you are at something, there are others out there who are monumentally better at it than you. This is a very good thing!! Yesterday I had two of these humbling experiences. Earlier in the day I played a piece on the piano that I've been practicing for who-knows-how-many months. I'm happy with how I play it, but later on, almost by chance, I heard a real concert pianist play that same piece. His rendition was outstanding and made mine sound like the ramblings of a mad fool. :) The other day I wrote, what I consider to be, my best article ever. I'm very happy with the quality of the prose, which is something I've struggled to improve on every article. I felt that my writing style was "getting there." Then, last night, I started reading "Alexander Hamilton[^]" and was blown away by the author's eloquence and style. Suddenly my writing looked like the ramblings of a mad fool! :laugh: But, as I said before, this is a good thing. The world would be very boring if nobody was exceptionally good at something.
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] All of life is just a big rambling blog post.
Josh Smith wrote:
been practicing for who-knows-how-many months.
Yeah but be fair - the guy (or girl) you saw had been practicing for who know how many years! :)
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Folks, we live in an amazing world. No matter how good you are at something, there are others out there who are monumentally better at it than you. This is a very good thing!! Yesterday I had two of these humbling experiences. Earlier in the day I played a piece on the piano that I've been practicing for who-knows-how-many months. I'm happy with how I play it, but later on, almost by chance, I heard a real concert pianist play that same piece. His rendition was outstanding and made mine sound like the ramblings of a mad fool. :) The other day I wrote, what I consider to be, my best article ever. I'm very happy with the quality of the prose, which is something I've struggled to improve on every article. I felt that my writing style was "getting there." Then, last night, I started reading "Alexander Hamilton[^]" and was blown away by the author's eloquence and style. Suddenly my writing looked like the ramblings of a mad fool! :laugh: But, as I said before, this is a good thing. The world would be very boring if nobody was exceptionally good at something.
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] All of life is just a big rambling blog post.
That's always a good thing Josh. Every time I read your articles or Marc Clifton's or Sacha Barber's or Karl Shifflet's I'm always left dumbfounded. I get inspired by you guys and you guys get inspired by others, that's the circle of article writing life :cool:
"Every time Lotus Notes starts up, somewhere a puppy, a kitten, a lamb, and a baby seal are killed. Lotus Notes is a conspiracy by the forces of Satan to drive us over the brink into madness. The CRC-32 for each file in the installation includes the numbers 666." Gary Wheeler "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Coo
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Folks, we live in an amazing world. No matter how good you are at something, there are others out there who are monumentally better at it than you. This is a very good thing!! Yesterday I had two of these humbling experiences. Earlier in the day I played a piece on the piano that I've been practicing for who-knows-how-many months. I'm happy with how I play it, but later on, almost by chance, I heard a real concert pianist play that same piece. His rendition was outstanding and made mine sound like the ramblings of a mad fool. :) The other day I wrote, what I consider to be, my best article ever. I'm very happy with the quality of the prose, which is something I've struggled to improve on every article. I felt that my writing style was "getting there." Then, last night, I started reading "Alexander Hamilton[^]" and was blown away by the author's eloquence and style. Suddenly my writing looked like the ramblings of a mad fool! :laugh: But, as I said before, this is a good thing. The world would be very boring if nobody was exceptionally good at something.
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] All of life is just a big rambling blog post.
Indeed. And then you get baby stars doing 2.6 million kph[^]. Flung from the center of another galaxy by a black hole and through our galaxy. How incredible is that. I suck at throwing stars in comparison.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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Josh Smith wrote:
The world would be very boring if nobody was exceptionally good at something.
I see what you did here. You drawn attention away from yourself. You actually meant to say "The world would be very boring if nobody sucked at something." Smart ... pretty smart ...
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
Mircea Grelus wrote:
You actually meant to say "The world would be very boring if nobody sucked at something."
Errr...yeah, that's right....that's what I meant. ;)
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] All of life is just a big rambling blog post.
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Josh Smith wrote:
been practicing for who-knows-how-many months.
Yeah but be fair - the guy (or girl) you saw had been practicing for who know how many years! :)
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog
Jim Crafton wrote:
Yeah but be fair - the guy (or girl) you saw had been practicing for who know how many years!
True!
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] All of life is just a big rambling blog post.
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That's always a good thing Josh. Every time I read your articles or Marc Clifton's or Sacha Barber's or Karl Shifflet's I'm always left dumbfounded. I get inspired by you guys and you guys get inspired by others, that's the circle of article writing life :cool:
"Every time Lotus Notes starts up, somewhere a puppy, a kitten, a lamb, and a baby seal are killed. Lotus Notes is a conspiracy by the forces of Satan to drive us over the brink into madness. The CRC-32 for each file in the installation includes the numbers 666." Gary Wheeler "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Coo
Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
I get inspired by you guys and you guys get inspired by others, that's the circle of article writing life
I know what you mean, but I'm focusing more on the quality of the writing. The actual use of language to convey ideas, not the ideas themselves.
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] All of life is just a big rambling blog post.
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Indeed. And then you get baby stars doing 2.6 million kph[^]. Flung from the center of another galaxy by a black hole and through our galaxy. How incredible is that. I suck at throwing stars in comparison.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
Paul Watson wrote:
I suck at throwing stars in comparison.
You've just raised the bar pretty high! :laugh:
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] All of life is just a big rambling blog post.
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Indeed. And then you get baby stars doing 2.6 million kph[^]. Flung from the center of another galaxy by a black hole and through our galaxy. How incredible is that. I suck at throwing stars in comparison.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
May I suggest you read Star Throwing For Dummies It is a good start!
------------------------------------ I try to appear cooler, by calling him Euler.
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Indeed. And then you get baby stars doing 2.6 million kph[^]. Flung from the center of another galaxy by a black hole and through our galaxy. How incredible is that. I suck at throwing stars in comparison.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
Paul Watson wrote:
And then you get baby stars doing 2.6 million kph[^].
I don't know how fast is that, but I'll bet you that ain't no faster than bugatti veyron.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP
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Paul Watson wrote:
And then you get baby stars doing 2.6 million kph[^].
I don't know how fast is that, but I'll bet you that ain't no faster than bugatti veyron.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP
:laugh: I'm sure I spotted the Koenigsegg people racing after the star to ask it some performance questions...
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
I get inspired by you guys and you guys get inspired by others, that's the circle of article writing life
I know what you mean, but I'm focusing more on the quality of the writing. The actual use of language to convey ideas, not the ideas themselves.
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] All of life is just a big rambling blog post.
Authors definitely get inspired by writing style too. They'll read a better author and be pushed to write better themselves.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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Authors definitely get inspired by writing style too. They'll read a better author and be pushed to write better themselves.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
Paul Watson wrote:
Authors definitely get inspired by writing style too.
I suppose you're right about that. Hadn't really considered it before.
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] All of life is just a big rambling blog post.
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Indeed. And then you get baby stars doing 2.6 million kph[^]. Flung from the center of another galaxy by a black hole and through our galaxy. How incredible is that. I suck at throwing stars in comparison.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
Paul Watson wrote:
I suck at throwing stars in comparison.
In early high school I was pretty good with throwing stars.
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:laugh: I'm sure I spotted the Koenigsegg people racing after the star to ask it some performance questions...
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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Paul Watson wrote:
I suck at throwing stars in comparison.
In early high school I was pretty good with throwing stars.
Many a tree bears the mark of my shurikens from childhood. Poor trees :(
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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Indeed. And then you get baby stars doing 2.6 million kph[^]. Flung from the center of another galaxy by a black hole and through our galaxy. How incredible is that. I suck at throwing stars in comparison.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
I found out early in life my upper body strength was lousy, so I gave up on throwing stars as a child. But after discovering kick-ball, I found out my lower-body strength was exceptional. So I am far better at kicking stars around than I am at throwing them, at least 500% better!! ;P
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Folks, we live in an amazing world. No matter how good you are at something, there are others out there who are monumentally better at it than you. This is a very good thing!! Yesterday I had two of these humbling experiences. Earlier in the day I played a piece on the piano that I've been practicing for who-knows-how-many months. I'm happy with how I play it, but later on, almost by chance, I heard a real concert pianist play that same piece. His rendition was outstanding and made mine sound like the ramblings of a mad fool. :) The other day I wrote, what I consider to be, my best article ever. I'm very happy with the quality of the prose, which is something I've struggled to improve on every article. I felt that my writing style was "getting there." Then, last night, I started reading "Alexander Hamilton[^]" and was blown away by the author's eloquence and style. Suddenly my writing looked like the ramblings of a mad fool! :laugh: But, as I said before, this is a good thing. The world would be very boring if nobody was exceptionally good at something.
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] All of life is just a big rambling blog post.
...blow bubble rings[^] either
-- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
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...blow bubble rings[^] either
-- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
benjymous wrote:
blow bubble rings[^] either
Cool!
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] All of life is just a big rambling blog post.