Here's a thought for the day
My biggest problem, nay complaint, with the day that is "today" is that you can't complain about anything today with most people ascribing it to "today". Instead, you've got to look like a benign Buddha (too much merriment also evokes comment). I like my complaints and I like to complain, so I'm not very happy with anyone taking that away from me in a blaze of innuendo. I'm fairly happy as a person right now (if you discount all the various complaints) and especially if you compare my lot to a whole set of people. I'd be complaining about the same things tomorrow as well, but suddenly tomorrow's complaint is much more mundane than today's. I resent that.In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Joel rightly starts off saying that "Today is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap". And if you tell me this post was a classic example of a reaction from someone not having to make any purchases that make those greeting card companies fill their pockets, don't come near me or I'll give you something to complain about :-)
7 comments:
Seriously, if you complained that you didn't understand Linear Algebra, or Bellman-Ford algorithm today, would anyone really mind?
You have said all that I wanted to say, but did not fearing exactly the same thing that you have complained about. Bah...
T: depends on what I was supposed to have been optimising for!
I came here after reading Sumedha's post (read it if you haven't). You just made me cheer up a bit - (I was off to dubao my gam in a latte or something). Priceless.
Yeah, all these blogging couples should be asked to take the day off! (just joking H & S :-) )
Its one of my favourite movies all time. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind rocks! I wanna get it on DVD.
a happy O(k) valentine's day to you too ...
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