The Life and Times of Jim
Hi, there. I'm Jim. Welcome to my phlog!
This site was written for Las Vegas, then LouisVille. Now, it seems to be about anywhere. In these phlogs, you'll see a lot of my personal notes and pictures. I like to post my observations here to remember life and celebrate it. I'm not religious. I don't pray for good fortune. I'm ecstatically grateful for the gift of life and I think our time should be remembered and not taken for granted. I'm not a writer. I think pictures tell stories so much better than words. I love just about everything in this life, and, I guess that would have to include you. So, if you've seen me, don't be surprised if your picture is in here somewhere. Of all the critters, people are absolutely the most interesting. 
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Thu 
09/17/2009 07:08:00
 jim  Plato - The Republic
Plato wrote in his "The Republic"
Each member of a society ought to do what they are best at and be alleviated from responsibility of those things they are not good at, which can be done by others.
I often wonder what kind of world this philosphy would create.
How would it be, if Johnny started school in the fifth grade, past his olderer sister in the second?
I think right now, capitolism and free enterprise tries to allow us to find our own levels in society. And I wonder how well that is working.
To me, the levels we find still seem to be determined by wealth and locations that present opportunity; and not merit.
Brilliant minds are rarely discovered in Podunk and feeble minds often have highly financed degrees.
Tue 
09/15/2009 07:08:36
 jim  The Best Printer I have ever owned
I just bought a HP Photosmart Premium Fax C309a series from Best Buy. It was/is on sale for $199, and it is, by far, the best printer I've ever owned.
It has:
- Two sided scan and print
- Flat bed scanning
- Sheet fed scanning
- Great Photo printing
- Faxing
- It prints on CDs
- SD card slots
- A color LCD display with a very simple menu. 
No more seeing warning lights, and looking up error numbers.
I have a Okidata color laser printer,
but, any one of its 4 cartridges costs more than $70, and it sort of looks like Okidata might be losing business badly.
They used to be the best.
Mon 
09/14/2009 22:33:09
 jim  Patrick Swayze Dies at 57
He was really great, wasn't he?
I loved his acting in Road House, and he was fantastic in Dirty Dancing.
Now he is a "Ghost", trapped in the past...
or is he?
If you could recieve a transmission of Dirty Dancing from the constellation Pleiades (if there is still a Pleaides),
you would have to wait another 400 years to see Road House for the first time.
WE ALL SHINE ON, like the moon and the sun and the stars - From the late John Lennon
Mon 
09/14/2009 20:32:06
 jim  Existence
We are standing in a doorway. Behind us is the past where we are dust. Ahead is the future where we are ghosts. We can't go backwards or forwards. And it is only here, in this doorway, that consciousness exists - Jimism
Mon 
09/07/2009 18:18:10
 jim  Conshohockon, PA
Mon 
09/07/2009 18:02:10
 jim  Philadelphia, PA - Buildings
Mon 
09/07/2009 17:47:34
 jim  Philadelphia, PA
Mon 
09/07/2009 16:02:50
 jim  Atlantic City, NJ
Mon 
09/07/2009 15:29:08
 jim  Great Egg Harbor, NJ
Mon 
09/07/2009 14:39:33
 jim  Boardwalk, NJ
Mon 
09/07/2009 14:25:22
 jim  Ocean City, NJ - South side
Mon 
09/07/2009 13:11:34
 jim  Ocean City, NJ - The Drive
Mon 
09/07/2009 11:37:04
 jim  Lewes Ferry - Artsyish
Mon 
09/07/2009 10:30:16
 jim  Lewes Ferry, DE - Deck
Mon 
09/07/2009 10:19:20
 jim  Bethany, DE
Mon 
09/07/2009 06:56:54
 jim  Board Walk, MD - Sunrise
Mon 
09/07/2009 06:24:38
 jim  Board Walk, MD - While you were sleeping
Mon 
09/07/2009 06:05:09
 jim  I think I finally understand existance
When we die, we die in the present portion of time. Our parts are recycled for the future. Our past remains fixed in the past.
The past and the future are as real as the present. We are not set up to understand them. Our state is set to the present.
We won't be in this state ever again, and we have no tools to imagine any other state.
But one can imagine that 100 years in the future, we will be dead in present time. We are currenty, the real, living, ghosts of the future.
I don't feel like a ghost, and I don't feel like a spirit either. And I don't feel dead. But, I am, one hundred years from now.
I believe all existance has already been predetermined. Life is like a movie where you don't know what is going to happen next.
There is only one path that could have brought us to the present, and there is only path possible into the future.
With that said, nothing is random. Our pain and joy, the decisions that we make, and the paths we take, all of these will have had to happen.
Our existance in the present is just a short ride.
I think it is like a rollar coaster, where we go in the same circle over and over again. It may be that we get to pick different seats each time around.
Mon 
09/07/2009 02:55:20
 jim  Too tired too think
Can't wait to get back to Pittsburgh, my home away from home.
So, if working in Pittsburgh is like a dream, then this weekend was like a dream within a dream.
We didn't make it to Ocean City, NJ or Atlantic City, like I'd hoped.
The traffic was too thick, but we did see some of Delaware.
Sun 
09/06/2009 19:07:02
 jim  Fenwick Island, DE - Lighthouse
Sun 
09/06/2009 18:34:22
 jim  Fenwick Island, DE - Shops
Sun 
09/06/2009 18:27:18
 jim  Fenwick Island, DE
Sun 
09/06/2009 17:41:32
 jim  Indian Marina, DE
Sun 
09/06/2009 17:21:21
 jim  Indian Beach, DE
Sun 
09/06/2009 10:35:04
 jim  Ocean City, MA - Chesapeake Bay
Sat 
09/05/2009 22:47:04
 jim  Ocean City, MD - Boardwalk
Sat 
09/05/2009 22:45:22
 jim  OceanCity - Religious Sand Works
Sat 
09/05/2009 22:41:40
 jim  OceanCity - Boardwalk at Night
Sat 
09/05/2009 21:57:50
 jim  Ocean City - Carnival
Sat 
09/05/2009 20:24:24
 jim  OceanCity Beach - Moonlight
Sat 
09/05/2009 14:57:22
 jim  Ocean City - Boardwalk
Sat 
09/05/2009 13:18:24
 jim  Ocean City - Admiral Hotel
Sat 
09/05/2009 12:31:30
 jim  Ocean City - Beach
Sat 
09/05/2009 11:34:50
 jim  Chesapeake Bay
Sat 
09/05/2009 11:34:20
 jim  Chesapeake Bay Crabs
Sat 
09/05/2009 10:39:16
 jim  Salisbury, Md - Hotel
Wed 
09/02/2009 20:37:04
 jim  Pittsburgh - Night Skyline
Wed 
09/02/2009 18:59:26
 jim  Pittsburgh - Buca
Wed 
09/02/2009 18:05:30
 jim  Pittsburgh - Skyline
Tue 
09/01/2009 13:50:29
 jim  Wexford - Apt Critters
Mon 
08/31/2009 12:10:03
 jim  Warrenburg - Behind Work
Sun 
08/30/2009 18:06:14
 jim  Cranberry 21TechDr
Sun 
08/30/2009 16:40:20
 jim  Wexford Skies
Sun 
08/30/2009 16:40:04
 jim  Wexford Ichibans
Sat 
08/29/2009 10:45:08
 jim  Wexford Apt - Rain
Wed 
08/26/2009 21:16:28
 jim  Pittsburgh at Night
Wed 
08/26/2009 20:02:28
 jim  Around Bridgewater
Wed 
08/26/2009 18:54:34
 jim  Bridgewater - Jeffries Landing
Wed 
08/26/2009 18:53:58
 jim  Bridgewater Marina
Wed 
08/26/2009 18:40:08
 jim  Bridgewater, Pa

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