TITLE: Sentences to Ponder
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: June 07, 2013  1:53 PM
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Henry Rollins:

<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
 When one beast dumps you, summon the guts to find another.
 If it tries to kill you, the party has definitely started.
 Otherwise, life is a slow retirement.
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>

Rollins is talking about
<A HREF="http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2013/05/henry_rollins_the_column_music_master.php">
   why he's not making music anymore</A>,
but his observation applies to other professions.  We all know
programmers who are riding out the long tail of an intellectual
challenge that died long ago.  College professors, too.

I have to imagine that this is a sad life.  It certainly leaves
a lot of promise unfulfilled.

If you think you have a handle on the beast, then the beast has
probably moved on.  Find a new beast with which to do battle.
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