General Living
Thoughts about life in general, including family, politics, and spiritual concerns.
…in the short term. In the long run, usually not so much.
Timmy, my eight year old son, was going to feed the fish and couldn't get the cover off the can. So he turned it sideways to get better leverage, and pulling hard, succeeded in getting the cover off. The can, being sideways, dumped its flakey contents on the counter. I happened to be standing right next to him watching this whole thing unfold. I looked at him, and he looked at me, and I was trying to figure out the words to say. Something to the effect of, "If you take the lid off a can when it's upside...
How do you know how far you can take something until you’ve taken it too far… at least once? This little “proverb” (if I can call it that) has limited applicability, and could be grossly misapplied, but has some relevance to what I’m currently working on. At the moment I’m designing a software system with an emphasis on SRP, the Single Responsibility Principle. The proverb accepts the tendency to over-apply something just learned. In many cases this over-application is okay because you’ll never know how far you should take something until you find the upper limit. In this...
Timmy and I have been playing with this cool little program called Comic Life. It's super easy to use. Here is the first production; keep in mind that an eight year old did everything here except snap the photos. He built the lego stuff and put it where he wanted it, telling the story he had in his mind.
Our family was at a violin concert. While we were waiting for Andrea to play, it got just a little bit long, so I drew this comic for Timmy. He didn't think it was as funny as I did. Timmy has been playing with some comic things as well; I'll post those soon.