Tech of yesterday today

I recently had the absolute honor of working on the Life Church Christmas production as a lighting designer with another guy who sadly I have forgotten the name of. Anyway the lights were amazing and everything (as I should have hoped they would be) though the night after I realized that I had just done something that when I was younger I thought was out of my reach now that was not being in charge of lights for a show but it was that I used a console with a touch screen, now yes I know I use touch screens every day but that's not the point I was using a touch screen to make something work. I can only think of the LCARS panels in star trek that when I was little I always wanted one because they were so cool. I had fulfilled a childhood dream of 'driving' something with a piece of equipment using touch screens.

Now I can imagine most people would have had similar experiences of commonly using tech that 15 years ago was absolutely impossible. think back and smile about how far we have come.

DFTBA 

The human spirit

First off I would like to say I am writing this post in dedication to a man I admire who has recently been diagnosed with cancer as much as it saddens me to hear that news I find it hard to feel bad for him or feel down about it. Why? Not because I don't care or anything like that but because his attitude to the whole situation is just incredible in fact I would go so far as to call it admirable. So big ups James Eggers.

Now down to my intended post subject, well this is not exactly much of a hey this is the universe kind of posts this is look at the world around you and have a think about it.

Over the last year I have gone through a major natural disaster in my city now I know that sounds crazy and to be quite honest it seems crazy to me to be writing it though to be frank that really is the reality of it. Though through the disaster the thing that struck me the most was not something physical or tangible it was the way people reacted to the whole situation, I did not once find a person who took up the 'O woe is me' perspective on the situation. Now I do not go as far to say that there were not those people however the overwhelming majority of the people I met were very positive for people who some had lost much of their livelihood, in fact probably my favorite memory of the days surrounding the quake and the resulting cleanup was a family that had decided that cleaning up their section was good reason to throw a party. Now if that is not celebrating the little things then I have no idea what is.

Now if your wondering what the overall point of this blog is then well it's simply this. When life is bad don't bring others down or yourself just celebrate the little things and let others help you up.

DFTBA