in light of my upcoming departure, once again, i feel it is interesting how restless my life has been. i havent been in one place for very long recently. just an observation i guess. so here are some good lyrics from some really good songs, all with the word "wander" in the title. see if you can identify them.
Oh well I roam from town to town
I go through life without a care
’til I’m as happy as a clown
With my two fists of iron and I’m going nowhere
Yeah I went with nothing
Nothing but the thought of you
I went wandering
I went with nothing
But the thought you'd be there too
Looking for you
I went out there
In search of experience
To taste and to touch
And to feel as much
As a man can
Before he repents
I went out searching
Looking for one good man
A spirit who would not bend or break
Who would sit at his father's right hand
I went out walking
With a bible and a gun
The word of God lay heavy on my heart
He's the wanderer looking for his long lost home
He's only got one place to go
He's wandering and wondering when to go home
He's not alone, not alone, not alone
Feet been walking for a thousand years, trying to drive away those fears, but no
Well then he picked up and then he went down south
Dad said nothing and mom shut her mouth
I'm a wanderer,
I have no place or time,
I'm just drifting on this lonely road of mine,
If you like you can come along with me,
But I promise you that I am not the man I used to be
I'm a wanderer,
I have no place or time,
I'm just drifting on this lonely road of mine,
And if you would accept me for me,
Then I promise you that there's a better man inside of me
and just for good measure, because i will soon be there:
Sometimes I just look around to take in the feeling coming out
from the ground
But that's just something I do sometimes
And then I just step out the door to take in the wind coming off
of the shore
And that's just what I'm doing tonight
And when you are on your own, not speaking out is like fighting
alone
And that is the worst damn way to fight
And when you are scared no more, reach your hand out and just
open the door
And that's just what I'm doing tonight
The black rock is where I spend my time
Writing a memory or writing a rhyme
Thinking about what is right or wrong
On the black rock is where I like to go
After a long night coming home from a show
And that's where I write my song, all day long, the black
rock
time to get ready to go...
any and all comments or responses are welcome at dabele@wm.edu
Friday, May 27, 2005
Saturday, April 30, 2005
many days have flown by
many nights have flown too
i ended up walking by myself through my memory of you
and all i have, and all i wish to be
i can find inside myself
will you come with me?
on this journey, over these four years, i ended up playing cards with three wise men...learning how to play my hand at this thing called life. i have walked with many of you, learned a lot, changed a lot, and grown a lot. it has been a wonderful four years.
2005 ....of a revolution
any and all comments or responses are welcome at dabele@wm.edu
many nights have flown too
i ended up walking by myself through my memory of you
and all i have, and all i wish to be
i can find inside myself
will you come with me?
on this journey, over these four years, i ended up playing cards with three wise men...learning how to play my hand at this thing called life. i have walked with many of you, learned a lot, changed a lot, and grown a lot. it has been a wonderful four years.
2005 ....of a revolution
any and all comments or responses are welcome at dabele@wm.edu
Friday, April 29, 2005
This is it. The day we have been looking forward to, hoping for, and dreading all at the same time. But it is here. The final day of classes at The College of William and Mary. More affectionately known as Blowout 2005! it will be a great day. i figured this was an appropriate picture for today. The College has a lot of tradition, maybe not this old, but still. I feel like him today. It has been a long, hard road, but i have found that light at the end of the tunnel, and it is beautiful to soak up those rays.
here we go. let the celebrations begin.
any and all comments or responses are welcome at dabele@wm.edu
here we go. let the celebrations begin.
any and all comments or responses are welcome at dabele@wm.edu
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
i am sure you have read this before, but just in case, i thought i would post it here. mostly because i want to make an additional comment at the end.
For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on. At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics (and I just love this part):
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed an Illegal Operation" warning light.
7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.
8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.
<5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads.>
-because microsoft owns all the roads and controls them in such a way as to exclude any cars but their own from driving on them. the greed and power that comes from having a monopoly over the roads makes them care less about innovation and creativity, and they just create crap cars, since they have to drive on their roads anyways. people would ask about those beautiful, sleek, fast, brilliant Macintosh cars, but Microsoft would brainwash them into believing that they are somehow incapable of driving on the Microsoft roads. the fact of course is that the Macintosh cars can perform even better on those roads than the Mocrosoft ones can and the Mac engineers continue to make modifications to their cars so that they can deal with the hostile travelling environment on the roads. yet Microsoft will not let them drive on the roads and they continue to be forced elsewhere. except for the few that sneak through and surprise people when they prove that the propoganda isnt true and that the brilliant people are the ones who bought the brilliantly made car, not the car that is the easiest to buy or the cheapest or is marketed everywhere or is forced upon them because the company they work for made a deal with the car provider so that everyone must use a Microsoft as the company car.
ok that is enough.
any and all comments or responses are welcome at dabele@wm.edu
For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on. At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics (and I just love this part):
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed an Illegal Operation" warning light.
7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.
8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.
<5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads.>
-because microsoft owns all the roads and controls them in such a way as to exclude any cars but their own from driving on them. the greed and power that comes from having a monopoly over the roads makes them care less about innovation and creativity, and they just create crap cars, since they have to drive on their roads anyways. people would ask about those beautiful, sleek, fast, brilliant Macintosh cars, but Microsoft would brainwash them into believing that they are somehow incapable of driving on the Microsoft roads. the fact of course is that the Macintosh cars can perform even better on those roads than the Mocrosoft ones can and the Mac engineers continue to make modifications to their cars so that they can deal with the hostile travelling environment on the roads. yet Microsoft will not let them drive on the roads and they continue to be forced elsewhere. except for the few that sneak through and surprise people when they prove that the propoganda isnt true and that the brilliant people are the ones who bought the brilliantly made car, not the car that is the easiest to buy or the cheapest or is marketed everywhere or is forced upon them because the company they work for made a deal with the car provider so that everyone must use a Microsoft as the company car.
ok that is enough.
any and all comments or responses are welcome at dabele@wm.edu
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