Category: Thoughts

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway. If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere…

There are several stages to learning. The first is Unconscious Incompetence. This is not knowing you don’t know or can’t do something. For example, a baby doesn’t know he can’t do a back tuck because he doesn’t know what a back tuck is. He can’t even think about a back tuck because he has no…

Wednesday, June 8th, is World IPv6 Day. This is a day many major internet companies have decided jointly run a test on the future of the internet. The test is running Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), instead of the existing standard of IPv4, to see if anything breaks. Google estimates very few people will have…

CNN published Egyptian General Admits ‘Virginity Checks’ Conducted on Protesters. I’m not sure what else to say. A senior Egyptian general admits that “virginity checks” were performed on women arrested at a demonstration this spring, the first such admission after previous denials by military authorities.

I’m kind of annoyed by Facebook Groups. I guess it’s not really the groups, but the fact that someone can add me to one and it defaults to me getting an email about every single bit of activity that happens in the group. During my Facebookless Lent I was added to a couple groups and…

This video shows 2 guys walking around asking people the same questions social networks ask during signup. Why are people so hesitant to share with these 2 guys in person the same information they put online for 500 million people to see?

USA Today published an interesting article titled College Women, Don’t Get Wasted on Campus.

On a recent flight to the West Coast I had a 4 hour layover, which is a result of someone else booking my flight for me. That gave me too much time to get annoyed so I started typing. First I have a request for those who book flights for others. Please do not book…

Today is Cinco de Mayo. I feel like I’m still recovering from last week in Orlando, mainly the weekend part of it, and trying to catch up on everything. Hopefully everything will be back on track some time next week. Until then, have a great Cinco de Mayo.

Happy Easter Everyone! I’m spending Easter with my parents and having bacon for breakfast. I’ve already sent a Happy Easter tweet and logged into Facebook to see that I have a lot of messages.

Congratulation Swayze on getting engaged. Please have a summer wedding so I have a chance of attending. Last week I attended to competitions. It was fun, long, tiring, and I think I got a little sick after it was over. This weekend I head to California for an event before heading to Orlando for Easter…

Between now and early May I’ll make a trip to California in between 2 trips to Florida, technically 3 since I’ll have a layover in Atlanta during a flight from one part of Florida to another. It should be fun, will be tiring, and will give me a chance to see some of the best…

The last 7ish days have been busy. I went to a funeral on Tuesday for the previously mentioned mother of an 8th grader at David’s gym. Wednesday we left for David’s wedding in Florida. Thursday, while in Florida I talked to a couple friend that will be opening their own gyms soon and gave them…

His wife said no, but Apple Said Yes.

Last week at about this time I was leaving UCA All*Star Nationals. This trip to UCA was a little different because instead of being on the judges stand I was in warm ups looking for rules violations. Our goal was to catch violations in warm ups so we could inform the coaches and let them…

CNN published D.C. Elementary Student Brings Cocaine to School. Police were called to a Washington elementary school this week after a student brought cocaine to the school and shared it with other students, officials said.

… for Lent. I’ve decided to give up Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Bacon, and Beer for Lent. You’ll still get a tweet and Facebook status update when I publish something on andrejcarter.com because those are done automatically, but that should be all until Easter. If you need to get in touch with my try calling, texting,…

Last weekend I was in Dallas for NCA All*Star. I think the combination of that trip and Atlanta the preceding week wiped me out. I didn’t feel great this week and have slept a lot more than I normally do. Hopefully I’ll return to normal and have a productive week. I did manage to move…

WordPress 3.1 was released today so I’ll spend most of the day updating the websites I’m involved with. Over the next few months I work on combining some of the installations to make this process easier, but I have to figure something out with my new host, Media Temple, before I can make the changes…

I know this is random and I over-analyze things, but I was going through the pictures on my phone earlier this week and came across this picture taken at an Avis airport counter. Read it. If I’m reading it correctly, it says they are going to add $14 to my bill for gas just in…

Congratulations to Dunbar, Graves County, Greenup County, Westview, for winning UCA High School Nationals once again. Congratulations to Saleem & Donna with Dunbar, Mark with Graves County, Candy with Greenup County, and Craig Monte with Westview (and all the guys and girls on the teams). Congratulations are also in order for so many of my…

One of my former bosses reminded us a few times that we could do things Cheap, Fast, or Great. We could even do them Cheap & Fast, Cheap & Great, or Fast & Great, but we could not do them Cheap, Fast, & Great. There are tradeoffs everyone has to make in life. Unless you…