Blog

Short blog posts, journal entries, and random thoughts. Topics include a mix of personal and the world at large. 

Good and bad judgement

Good judgment comes from experience,
experience comes from bad judgment.
— Mulla Nasrudin

Domain name renewed

Paid for another year of this domain name today, wasn't too bad of a price since it's not exactly a high demand domain. I don't think there's another Healy Chen on this planet so it's not like I've got competition clamoring for it. If there is, though, I'd gladly sell it to you for a princely sum. 

It's a lovely noise when I drive through my work's parking structure and the boxer rumble from my STI trips up numerous car alarms. Don't blame me, the car came like it stock. You car's alarm is simply too sensitive. Nobody responds to vehicle alarms anyways; they just annoy the crap out of you until it goes away somehow. Not sure why the modern car even bother with such nuisance. If a thief wants your car bad enough, it's effectively gone. 

 

Yesterday's home-runs

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games
— Bath Ruth

First night of vacation

You'd think I'd be all outside getting into all sorts of trouble on the first night of my 10 day vacation, but ha! I just spent like the past six hours watching episodes of the acclaimed television series Friends

Yup, this is the life, isn't it. 

All progress depends on the unreasonable

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man
— George Bernard Shaw

Life measured in achievement

To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. Indeed, life is not measured in years alone, but in achievement.
— Bruce McLaren

Don't ponder the consequences

Like anything that’s fun, if you stop and ponder the consequences for too long, you’ll never know how life-affirming it might have been
— Chris Harris