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Embrace Your Own Place
I'm always left of center and that's right where I belong. I'm the random minor note you hear in major songs. - Janelle Monae
Sometimes a mystery, sometimes I'm free
Depending on my mood or my attitude
Sometimes I wanna roll or stay at home
Walking contradiction, guess I’m factual and fictionA little crazy, little sexy, little cool
Little rough around the edges but I keep it smooth
I'm always left of center and that's right where I belong
I'm the random minor note you hear in major songs
Smart Display Design Ideas
- Portable with battery to place anywhere
- Thin screen with hinge style thin stand
- Folds like laptop to move or travel in bag
- Adequate speakers/camera in thin design
- Screen defaults to display analog clock
- Turns screen on when you look at it
February 27, 2026
Think About Serving People
Stop thinking about making a million dollars and start thinking about serving a million people. - Dharmesh Shah
Make Dreams For The Whole Team
I think we might need to make a world where everyone on the team building houses, nursing people, digging ditches, teaching children, or doing any other work reaches the dreams too, not just rich individual entertainers, athletes, technologists, entrepreneurs, and capitalists.
Famous Buddha Paradox
If Buddha was content doing nothing, then "Why is Buddha so famous?"
- If Buddha thought that living a life in which you don't need to do anything, make any improvements, or strive for any purpose was most rewarding or the best way to live, then why is he so famous and how did he produce many teachings which are so well-known?
- Could it be because he followed his passions, sometimes strived to make things better with his ideas, found ways to potentially be of service for others, spent time doing and working on things he enjoyed, and even gained recognition from others for his work?
- If Buddha was truly happy and content with just existing, meditating, and sitting in nature all of the time, then I wonder if we would not know him at all, let alone recognize him as such a famous and great writer, teacher, and philosopher.
- I wonder if he may have really enjoyed his purpose or role as a teacher and philosopher, and spent a good deal of time learning and teaching how to live a better life, which resulted in him creating and writing many teachings on enlightenment and other ideas.
- I admit my ignorance that I am not a master scholar of Buddha's teachings. Of course I understand he taught many different ideas including the Middle Way of finding a balance, and I know that he didn't actually teach everyone to just "sit in nature all day".
- This was simply inspired by my ignorant image of him sitting in nature all day being content, and wondering if he might not be so famous if he did not follow his own passions and get some enjoyment from or even attachment to the purposes, roles, practices, or habits he did in his life.
February 18th, 2026
Spread Love Instead Of Hate Shove
The kids are having none of it. They can't be bought, they can't be taught your hate. - Frazey Ford
Get out of the way
You've had your day
And it's no longer how we gon' playThe kids are having none of it
The kids are having none of it
They can't be bought, they can't be taught your hate
Do What You're Afraid To Do
Always do what you are afraid to do. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wait For It And Appreciate It
We used to wait for it, now we're screaming sing the chorus again. - Arcade Fire
I used to write
I used to write letters, I used to sign my name
I used to sleep at night
Before the flashing light settled deep in my brainNow our lives are changing fast
Hope that something pure can lastWe used to wait for it
Now we're screaming sing the chorus again
Cheer Someone Else Up
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. - Mark Twain
Raptors Need PG Upgrade?
Hey Raptors Report.
Thanks a lot for replying to me and others, and sharing your thoughts and evaluation on Quickley and everything else, it's so enjoyable to listen to such an intelligent and well researched person like you talk about Raptors and basketball! Again, I admit I didn't even watch this particular video so I'm not debating specific things you said in it, and for instance upgrading to prime Curry straight up from Quickley might be worth it 🙂
While I'm nitpicking words a bit, one thing I have learned to try and do is to not assume what others are thinking or that everyone sees things the same as I do or the current consensus does. As an example, there may be people that might not even recognize Quickley as struggling much this year, and might evaluate the situation differently. Because of adding Ingram he is the 4th option on the team and is playing unselfish, he's shooting a career high 52% 2PT, a respectable 36% 3PT the same as LaMelo Ball, an excellent and career high 3.7/1 AST/TO, a career high 1.3 STL, he plays much harder on defense and makes less money than many PG who one might consider upgrades, and he has a solid 17 PPG, which is lower because of him being the 4th option and not taking way more shots or steal the ball away from RJ more like VanVleet would have done 🙂
Dream The World's A Team
Oh I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be, some day it's going to come. - Cat Stevens
Oh I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one
And I believe it could be, some day it's going to come
Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country, come take me home again
Now I've been smiling lately, thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be, something good has begun
Turn Gradey Into Slim Shady
Here's my idea to help turn Gradey into his own version of Slim Shady, with him coming back strong in a different gear after starting off wrong in a difficult year.
- I like how Darko Rajakovic seems to talk quite a bit about and appears to work very diligently to always develop all facets of all player's games constantly, and I'm sure that strategy and focus has payed huge dividends in many players reaching their long-term potential.
- I wonder if a bit more balance towards simplification of a player's role might be good at certain times or years. Mainly, I wonder if having Gradey Dick simplify his game to focus on shooting for the next 1.5 seasons might make sense now, with less dribbling, scoring, passing.
Hack Away The Unessentials
It's not daily increase but daily decrease - hack away the unessentials. - Bruce Lee
Say Bye Buy Bee To Be
What does it cost and what must be lost?
To buy gifts just for show?
To buy flowers from a store?
To buy clothes they just stow?
To buy jewels for ever more?
What does it cost and what must be lost?
To be walking in a park?
To be talking on a bench?
To be swimming in a lake?
To be kissing on a couch?
January 7th, 2026
Appreciate How Everything Is Now
Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone? They paved paradise, put up a parking lot. - Joni Mitchell
They took all the trees
Put 'em in a tree museum
Then they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'emDon't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?
They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot
Think You Can Do It
Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're right. - Henry Ford
Write Down And Read Goals
Think and Grow Rich is a classic motivational book. Written by Napoleon Hill and inspired by Andrew Carnegie, it was published in 1937 at the end of the Great Depression. In his introduction, Hill refers to the "Carnegie Secret", a conception which he reports is the foundation of all success and appears to be the premise of the book. Hill promises to indirectly describe this "secret" in every chapter, but never state it plainly, believing the use of the secret is only available to those who possess a "readiness" for it, a disposition Hill describes as essential to the concept itself.
Napoleon Hill talks about "The Secret" to Think & Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill - YouTube
Make Foldable With Wider Screens
For anyone who hasn't realized it, like people enjoying the overly complicated tri-fold phone, you could make a regular foldable phone with a wider aspect ratio on the inside screen like an iPad mini or eReader by making the phone wider and shorter on the outside screen.
Outside Screen
Inside Screen
Adjust To Improve The Situation
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. - William Arthur Ward