The Road Not Taken

I was telling a story today about some time I spent with the Navy SEALs. It's a fun story, and I've told it at least a dozen times since the summer of 1990 when it happened. A month after the story took place, one of my co-workers - one of our lead engineers - went off to kindergarten.

Life is fleeting, and if the statistics are right I'm about half way through.

Life is also absurd. Case in point: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie just sold pictures of their newborn twins for $14,000,000. Of course this is California money, so that's only about nine 2,000 square foot homes. It only gets worse when you realize that the reason someone paid that much is because they firmly believe that they can make a profit from them - that $14,000,000 is less than the pictures are really worth.

Make sure you know what you're striving for, and make sure it's worth it. Or be pretty and make babies.