I read somewhere that life is about the journey and not the destination. My journey as a veteran has been full of twists and turns and things that go bump in the night. As an active duty Marine, the one steadfast belief everyone shared was that you were an absolute idiot for getting out. Why would you ever want to voluntarily give up your 3 hots and a cot for the uncertainty that civilian life holds?
The journey. My whole reasoning for choosing the Marines was not because they had the highest promotion rates, or that I had some legacy to live up to. I wanted the journey. I wanted extraordinary circumstances and succeed beyond expectations. I wasn't worried about where I was ending up but how well I was going to grow when I got there.
There is no glory here. I get a sense of purpose but never significance. Taking off the cap isn't a small feat; finding how to put it back on is the trick.
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Thoughts on Google+
Google finally took advantage of YouTube. I don't know why this is such a surprise for everyone. They have been pushing this integration for months now by constantly spamming whether or not I wanted to use my 'real name' on YouTube AKA create a Google+ account. Now that it's happened I find the collective internet people outrage justified on the terms that the change was unwarranted, but here's why I think this may turn into a good thing.
The internet has gone through so many transition periods it's amazing. I remember when everyone was on AIM and AOL and that was just how things were. Next, we moved onto Yahoo, then Myspace. I'm pretty sure a lot of users just decided that when the collective transitioned there was no need to delete old accounts. I'm pretty sure my old yahoo account (screamokid, haha) is still active and receiving ungodly amounts of spam mail. My point is that all of these actions, all of these separate accounts, if integrated together, would cut down on bandwidth usage per user.
I'm going to give this a shot and if it doesn't work out what do I have to lose? See you out there.
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