Bliss

If you were alive during the early 2000s, chances are you have seen the above image. The image, Bliss, is the default wallpaper of the default theme of Windows XP, which was the most popular version of Windows until the release of Windows 7.

Despite taking more photos since then, even making sequels to the photo, Bliss remains his most popular photo, and for the most part, he's content.

Such stories make me think that maybe chasing perfection isn't the best way to go. I've learned this as well on one of my temp jobs. The client wanted a presentation, and in the end, everything was a series of JPEGs.

Moral of the story: effort is everything, but don't waste it

- Ryan

Addicted to Stress

There are times in which I literally do nothing but goof off despite the fact that there's a deadline on my head, like a sword of Damocles.

This is one of those times.

It's an in-built function that runs in the rest of my family. Whenever something stressful happens, we do something else: me and my sister go online and shut the rest of the world out, my other sister does the opposite and goes out partying.

Really this is just one of the things that everyone else experiences, but I find it interesting to talk about: why do we do something else when faced with stress, when we know fully well that just walking up and dealing with it is a logical course of action.

It's one of those things, yeah.

- Ryan