I like it when people do whatever it is they do best. Pilots negotiating a smooth landing with their flying steel behemoths. Enthusiastic professors tirelessly imparting knowledge to a roomful of bored students. Maître d’s coolly keeping angry customers at bay while maintaining their sanity and composure. Gordon Ramsay doing something wonderful with a lump of beef. Martin Scorsese with a camera and a really good idea. In today’s case, Sam Edelman with shoes. And while we are on the subject of shopping, here’s a holiday gift for your favorite technolusting blogger friends: a Wordpress hoodie.
And to balance out the the uncharacteristically feminine preoccupations on this post, I’d like to comfort you and let you know that I am watching Predator as this is written. You see, Predator is a prime example of people who do whatever it is they do best. How can it not be? Pitting a half dozen armed muscleheads—who, by witchcraft or advancements in military logistics, acquire ammunition as quickly as they spend it—against the universe’s most elite headhunter must be like watching a re-enactment of the Titans being taken out by Zeus.
The new year is nigh. Closure? Resolutions? Countdown parties?
The only realistic resolution I have for next year is to be good at something, anything. I’d like to achieve mastery in just one field of play so people around me can take me as their local authority in whatever it is I will do best. Perhaps a good place to start would be taking out headhunting alien predators. Has that post been taken by anyone in Singapore and Central Wisconsin?
Posted on December 30th, 2007 by Antiguit
