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Entrepreneurship
As of a few days ago, I am once again a brave entrepreneur, pouring my heart into my little business in the Castro (of San Francisco). Luckily, most all sectors in the area are now ripe for business, so it's a fortuitous time to be building new biz relationships in the Bay Area. I have turned down numerous contracts while working full-time, and I unfortunately those may have slipped through my fingers forever, but the goal is to replace those missed ops with bigger ops!
Business-wise, in the tech sector, those days of low-hanging fruit abound have all but disappeared, unless you really know where to look. Personal and professional networking is mildly effective at peppering freelancers with work, opportunities, and financing, but I am going well beyond this and diversifying my efforts as much as possible. More on this later, but let's just say I'm capitalizing on my lifetime of accumulated skills, hobbies, and passions to strike gold wherever it may be, by chasing dozens of ventures at once. I'm not a Donald Trump, whose father claims that everything Donald touches turns to gold (insert disclaimer here). Sounds like smoke and magic to me, and anyway how can this be true for anyone? After all, even Donald filed Chapter 11 restructuring for his casino company, twice! Maybe I could try turning lead into gold by trading commodities, but that happens a few years down the road.
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Deep Impact
As July 4th approaches us, Nasa's Deep Impact spacecraft approaches comet Temple 1, hoping to produce some extra fireworks on the 4th by launching a copper port-o-pottie and slamming it into the comet, talling the results and transmitting them back to Earth. Now, you can guess that there are some scientists that strictly oppose this type of behavior (or misbehavior) in space, particularly as barbaric as this mission seems. Even a Russian woman, who is an author and spritualist, is attempting to sue NASA for over $300,000,000 in "moral" damages. Well Dang Ho, Russia is quickly "Americanizing" its legal system, wouldn't you say? Honestly, I understand both schools of thought— the pros and cons of tearing up objects in space to piece together our long history. But entertaining the accumulation of such wealth into the hands of one Russian lady should not be a by-product of trying to further space exploration.
I do hope, however, that NASA and all other space agencies limit their bombardment of small objects, and ideally, end the practice with the close of this mission. Because, you never know just how many fragments we might expel from these "experiments" of ours, and how many of those fragments will deviate from the comet's orbital path, and wind up on an intercept course with Earth. We earthbound misfits do not yet have a defense grid installed anywhere in space to blast these approaching metoroids before they hit Earth's atmosphere (now a meteor) and finally clobber the surface (now a meteorite) with an explosive energy that we can only guess. Of course, the chances of this happening are less than the chances of Michael Jackson's hair igniting on stage a second time, but we should always err on the side of life... err, caution.
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