My Penultimate Goal in Life

I have to keep reminding myself that penultimate does not mean: even more ultimate than the most ultimate thing that you could ever imagine.  It actually means: next to last.  Penultimate describes a place in ordering from first to last and does not appear to have other qualitative meanings or connotations.

According to dictionary.reference.com the word Ultimate has the following definitions:

1. last; furthest or farthest; ending a process or series: the ultimate point in a journey; the ultimate style in hats.
2. maximum; decisive; conclusive: the ultimate authority; the ultimate weapon.
3. highest; not subsidiary: ultimate goal in life.
4. basic; fundamental; representing a limit beyond which further progress, as in investigation or analysis, is impossible: the ultimate particle; ultimate principles.
5. final; total: the ultimate consequences; the ultimate cost of a project.

Strictly speaking, there is nothing beyond what is the ultimate.  But if you want to aim for the great beyond, you could try describing something as: Überultimate or Ultraultimate.

More of What You Want

Facebook will list all events that all of your friends are going to.

And I stumbled up on an engagement party.  It was meant to be an uberchill casual gathering at a bar and the invite said the following: "... if you really, really want to get us an engagement gift, our registry is: drinks."

Brilliant.  Love it.

On the interestingness of people

"Overcoming adversity is what makes people interesting, not how much money they have. People without at least a few skeletons in the closet are often shallow as a puddle." - Stacy Johnson

I am not entirely sure that I agree but it's an interesting idea.

Stacy Johnson tells me that I have a lot of misconceptions about money.

Having never had THAT much money, I will have to take his word for it.  On the other hand, maybe he's saying all of that to make me feel batter and withholding the fact that having that much money actually rocks the house.  

This is one of those situations where being cynical and naturally suspicious might not be working in my favor.

Early Birding

I met up with JY, ET and AR and had an early dinner at Mission Chinese Food NYC.  That's right Kids, the restaurant of my San Francisco dreams has opened a branch in the city where I live.  We ordered: Smashed Cucumbers in Garlic Sauce, Red Braised Pig Tails, Fresh Tofu Poached in Soy Milk, Salt Cod Fried Rice (of Course), Thrice Cooked Bacon, Mapo Tofu, and Sizzling Cumin Lamb Breast.

It was a mighty fine meal, after which I headed home and passed out at 8pm.  I cannot marshal together the words to describe my levels of food happy after this meal so I will not even try.

I woke again at 3am and have not been able to go back to sleep.  It was a solid 7 hours of sleep.  Yesterday MG told me that she had been up since 3am and unable to get back to sleep.  So she started working and had been very productive.  Perhaps a seed was planted at that point.

I am not sure that my time has been all that productive so far.  In this time, I have watched a couple of episodes of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report.

I had a cup of apple sauce.

I looked up how to guides on repairing the grout in your tile and how to seal the wall joints around the tub.  It looks pretty straightforward except for the part where you have to let it cure for 2 days and cannot use the shower.

I got a voucher to take a speed reading class and found a piece of online speed reading software, called spreeder.

I tried to read about Big Data, because LinkedIn told me to.

I pondered subscribing to Spotify.

I have played around with Mozilla Thimble.

I am starting to feel a little bit sleepy again, I blame the big data.