Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to the Nirvana & the community
It's been a busy year for me and I imagine it was busy for all of us. I just wanted to take the time to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you.
Nirvana Staff:
You guys and gals have been working hard to create a fantastic product and I wish you all the best moving forward. Your commitment to doing something great while keeping it under your control and personal funding is appreciated greatly. I hope all of you can take some time off and enjoy the things that are truly important.
Nirvana Community:
What can I say. This place is filled with many intelligent and helpful people. I have learned so much from all of you and look forward to future discussions. I know many of you have been around for a long time as Nirvana makes it's way to going live and I am positive it will be worth it in the end. We all had a part in making Nirvana better and that's always a good feeling. I wish you all the best and may you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
2012 Resolutions:
I don't believe in resolutions. I don't need a hard date to decide to change my life. You can do this daily so I wish for all of you to remember you can do what ever you set your mind too. Everyday is another day for you to decide how you will live it. Life is a gift which is why it's called the "Present". Live every day with no regrets.
I will leave you all with some of my favorite quotes from the perspective of a former US ARMY Soldier.
Take care and enjoy the Holidays.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
- Marianne Williamson
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
- John Stuart Mill
HOOAH
2 Posted by david-drake on 23 Dec, 2011 09:33 PM
This is very nice, Proximo! I too extend my heartfelt wishes to the Nirvana team and all of my colleagues on this forum to have a wonderful holiday season!
-David
3 Posted by Chris Webb on 24 Dec, 2011 06:25 PM
May I tag on my own festive wishes to everyone and express my delight at being part of what is and will (i'm sure) continue to be a wonderfully helpful and active forum for a superb product.
Merry Christmas everyone :-)
4 Posted by jber on 24 Dec, 2011 11:35 PM
While I appreciate the entirety of the contributions made by the Nirvana team and all who participate on this discussion board, I especially want to thank Proximo for the enormity and generosity of his contributions of time, ideas and humor.
Thanks, Mr. P!
Support Staff 5 Posted by David McLaughlin on 28 Dec, 2011 03:16 PM
Thanks to everyone in the Nirvana community for your patience and support, and as @jber says - especially Proximo.
As an avid reader, armchair philosopher, and collector of quotations (yes I've saved all three above), blame @Proximo for getting me started, so....
... and on a lighter note:
Here's hoping everyone has a happy and prosperous New Year.
Cheers,
David
6 Posted by Proximo on 29 Dec, 2011 05:55 AM
@David
Political Correctness
A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
Support Staff 7 Posted by David McLaughlin on 30 Dec, 2011 08:13 PM
Press Release From Sony:
Tokyo, Japan, December 30th - Sony has announced its own computer operating system now available on its new tablets. Instead of producing the cryptic error messages characteristic of Microsoft's Windows, Sony's chairman said, "We intend to capture the high ground by putting a human, Japanese face on what has been-until now-an operating system that reflects Western cultural hegemony. For example, we have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with our own Japanese haiku poetry."
The computer haiku messages are just as informative as Microsoft's and they make you pause just long enough that you're able to fight the impulse to put a fist through the screen. The chairman went on to give some examples of Sony's new error messages:
A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
You seek a Web site.
It cannot be located.
Countless more exist.
Chaos reigns within.
Stop, reflect, and reboot.
Order shall return.
ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask way too much.
Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Windows is like that.
First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
So beautifully.
With searching comes loss.
The presence of absence.
"June Sales.doc" not found.
The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao
Until you bring fresh toner.
Windows once more crashed.
The Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.
A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
You step in the stream
But the water has moved on.
Page not found.
Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
Having been erased,
The document you are seeking
Must now be retyped.
Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
David
PS - these are more like gendai than traditional haiku, but it's the thought that counts :-)