{"id":4,"date":"2003-07-11T17:12:31","date_gmt":"2003-07-11T22:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=4"},"modified":"2010-09-30T10:29:29","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T15:29:29","slug":"4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/4\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>03\/14\/2003<br \/>\n12:45 PM<br \/>\nNo more blue screens , please &#8211; did micro$oft do this on purpose? !?<\/p>\n<p>01\/30\/2003<br \/>\n2:40 PM<br \/>\nGripe for the day &#8211; all tea and no coffee makes Mani a dull boy ?!?<br \/>\nWell, I think I know when I am licked<br \/>\nso, to quote PG Wodehouse<\/p>\n<p>Many greetings to you!<br \/>\nMany greetings to you!<br \/>\nMany greetings, dear stranger,<br \/>\nMany greetings,<br \/>\nMany greetings,<br \/>\nMany greetings to you!<br \/>\nMany greetings to you!<br \/>\nTo you!<\/p>\n<p>07\/25\/2002 3:30 PM<br \/>\nDefinition:<br \/>\nHallucination = a working system<\/p>\n<p>3:27 PM<br \/>\nAs corporations get larger, why do networks get slower?<\/p>\n<p>07\/22\/2002 3:01 PM<br \/>\nMatt, my fish , thinks I have gone nuts &#8211; can I throw a rock at my monitor?<\/p>\n<p>2:48PM<br \/>\n..and life , as we know it, became one large goop ball. Coffee, pleeeease &#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>07\/03\/2002 8:00 AM<\/p>\n<p>..and life goes on. I actually did get to sleep last night &#8211; or was it more that I passed out as soon as I parked and walked in the door? Who  knows &#8211; more so, who cares? I am rested, now.<\/p>\n<p>9:45 AM<\/p>\n<p>Good morning, world! Coffee, anyone?<\/p>\n<p>11:57 AM<\/p>\n<p>and one more project meeting later, I qoute Hugh Prather &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>a) I have the choice of being right or being human<br \/>\nb) There is no such thing as &#8220;best&#8221; in a world of individuals<\/p>\n<p>12:11 PM<\/p>\n<p>Interests change. Friendship based on mutual interests is doomed. Real friendship is an unshakable faith in what was once truly seen, no matter how recently or long ago.<\/p>\n<p>I want to get drunk<br \/>\nand hide in my solitude<br \/>\nAway from prying eyes<br \/>\nand the judgmental<\/p>\n<p>I want to tell myself that I&#8217;m special<br \/>\nthat I&#8217;m good<br \/>\nShades of paranoia fill<br \/>\nthe dark brown coffee I drown in<br \/>\nGray skies or blue<br \/>\nwhen I look the sky tells me what my world must be<br \/>\nif I don&#8217;t look out at the world<br \/>\nit can be whatever I want it to<\/p>\n<p>Time is irrelevant<br \/>\nlife is just a series of tasks<br \/>\nOne by one they are done<br \/>\nand time passes<\/p>\n<p>Adam met Eve, and the world was born &#8211; or so they tell me. So then where did the monkeys, giraffes, foxes, rats and lice come from? Ideas, anyone?<\/p>\n<p>God for sure has a sense of humor. Else, someone explain GetAccess to me.<\/p>\n<p>..my current cup of coffee is done &#8211; so back to work for now.<\/p>\n<p>09\/18\/2001 &#8211; Okay the markets are somewhat down &#8211; but not to worry &#8211; the same Great Spirit that put together this wonderful country will bring them right back &#8211; stronger that before!<\/p>\n<p>On a more mundane note &#8211; I DESPERATELY need a haircut&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>09\/11\/2001 &#8211; Oh my God! &#8211; they brought down the World Trade Center &#8211; using planes as BOMBS! Is nothing holy to these nuts, who ever they are? No God prompted these actions &#8211; hell, even the Devil Himself would be hard put condoning these acts!<br \/>\nI so wish that the evil brain who thought up these acts could be made to rebuild the Towers &#8211; brick by agonising brick &#8211; with his own hands &#8211; and then have him\/her and their entire parentage and progeny serve the populace using the towers for ever more!<\/p>\n<p>09\/07\/2001 &#8211; Someone explain why salesmen should be called anything good &#8211; all they care about is to wipe their offerings off you and walk with the cash. For all the tall claims about customer satisfaction and &#8230;&#8230;.., what customer and what satisfaction ? My recent exchange with the folks I bought my car from , Leo Kaytes in Warwick, NY , left me convinced that despite all the good things I have told people about them, in the ultimate analysis, they are just another average car dealership with average service &#8211; the accolades stack up only when they work for them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I really need to spend more time with the kids&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03\/14\/2003 12:45 PM No more blue screens , please &#8211; did micro$oft do this on purpose? !? 01\/30\/2003 2:40 PM Gripe for the day &#8211; all tea and no coffee makes Mani a dull boy ?!? Well, I think I know when I am licked so, to quote PG Wodehouse Many greetings to you! 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