Ghost of a flea: Suggestions, please

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December 29, 2006

Suggestions, please

Sure, Einstein may have been working in the post office, but as a master of Time, Space and Dimension we should accept his ability to substitute physics training for, say, psychiatry. Hence the oft-cited bit about insanity being defined by doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. No need to fill in Flea-readers on matters of uncertainty principles and the like, to be sure. Suffice to say being a successful globe-spanning dictatorial autarch does not guarantee anything but kitsch taste in architecture and if you are an entrepreneurial genius with a multi-billion dollar garage start-up this does not necessarily mean you will be my first stop for advice about the ladies.

That said, even a broken digital clock is right once a day* and that Einstein chap was probably on to something when it came to insanity. Yes, Nietzsche had a few words to say about the eternal return and Freud a few more on neuroses but why consult philosophy or psychiatry when a physicist is handy. In the same spirit of freelance personal empowerment, I am asking Flea-readers for thoughts about New Year's resolutions; I have a list to prepare.

* When it offers gnomic silence in response to the question, "What is Buddha nature?" Broken digital clocks are very zen.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at December 29, 2006 07:07 AM

Comments

No, wait, one just came to me: I resolve not to sit around for two hours waiting on a work-night no matter how comely the wench.

Posted by: Ghost of a flea at December 29, 2006 07:15 AM

And what's with all the Muslim-themed Google ads? That's the last time I use the word "neuroses" in a post.

Posted by: Ghost of a flea at December 29, 2006 07:16 AM

my standard new years resolution: be more fabulous
My recommended zen resolution: change everything about your life, or change nothing at all, just remember to pine for what you lose and miss out on, or don't.

Posted by: Gorthos at December 29, 2006 10:05 AM

Stop eating so many damn cookies.

Posted by: agent bedhead at December 29, 2006 10:54 AM

The sanest course is to resolve that there will be no more resolutions. =)

Posted by: Chris Taylor at December 29, 2006 11:09 AM

I like the be more fabulous plan.

Cookie consumption has already nose-dived due to being post-Xmas and nobody being in the office.

And while I am normally a non-joiner the resolution thing amuses me enormously. Actually, whatever I write over the weekend, I have one specific resolution, viz to once again fit into a pair of pants I would like to wear this weekend but, for reasons of human decency, cannot. My target pants worked last year so I am hoping a new pair will keep me on the right track.

Posted by: Ghost of a flea at December 29, 2006 11:18 AM

Get a Tomb Raider outfit.

Posted by: agent bedhead at December 29, 2006 03:23 PM

I suspect this suggestion would flatter your figure more than it would mine.

Posted by: Ghost of a flea at December 29, 2006 03:25 PM

One of my readers, frustrated with my holiday season lack of posts, pointed me to this article, saying "tell me if that does not sound remarkably like the sort of thing that would appear that the bottom of some V14gr4 sp4m to defeat your Bayesian filter."

In recognition of this, I'd suggest that resolving to avoid sounding like a pharma spam ad would be an easy-to-keep resolution. ;-)

Posted by: Nicholas at December 29, 2006 06:07 PM