Other: April 2005 Archives

This is a forward I received from my mother and I wanted to post it to share it with everyone that considers themselves a crackpot. I know I do.

----Begin forwarded message----

A lady had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck.

One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.

At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.

For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water.

Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments.

But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do.

After 2 years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream.

"I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house."

The old woman smiled, "Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side?

That's because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them."

"For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house." Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding.

You've just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.

To all of my crackpot friends, have a great day and remember to smell the flowers, on your side of the path.

After wanting to redesign my logo for many weeks, I finally went ahead and did it, and at the same time, redesigned my whole website around it. So if you are reading this, you have already seen it. At the same time, I went ahead and installed JS2Feed to my web server to make the conversion of my RSS feeds from my Gallery, and from this blog faster and more reliable. I hope everyone looks around and enjoys.

After many years of development and a brief hiatus from working on it. We have seen a tremendous surge in development initiatives for the School of Film and Animation Internship Resource (SOFA-IR). The website (http://www.sofa-ir.org) was initially begun in April of 2004 and after a year of development and a semi-inconsistent year of coding the site was completed this morning at 2:00. Thanks go out to Michael Kurdziel who came through when a MOD on PHPBB2 definitely failed to work correctly. But things are up and running and working great so all Alumni and current students of RIT's School of Film and Animation should come on out to SOFA-IR.org and register. I hope this is the beginning of something great for the school.

I think I have this RSS feed thing in the bag. Its going to do, pretty much what I need it to do which is feed my index page with news updates about SoundSpeed.net. This is going to be my last post for a while as I'm moving into finalizing the development of my new site with all of the fun information included in my old site but with a much more streamlined, pleasing, design. At least in my opinion.

Yes indeed I'm here at Dave's House.