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CRANKY ALERT.  I’m all for positive thinking.  I’m all for pushing ourselves and encouraging each other to strive to be better. But I’m getting a little tired of the language I’m seeing a lot here on FB.  Language like “only you limit what… you can achieve, ” or “you can be anything you dream.” Well, actually, you can’t.  I can dream a lot of things that can never happen.  I can make myself better, naturally (EVEN better).
Alex Carneiro

But I can’t make myself twenty years old.  I can’t make myself genetically athletic.  I can’t make myself NOT have a double bypass in my past.  The sky is NOT the limit.  We all have limits.  To tell people they don’t is to set them up for feelings of shame when their dreams do not come true. No matter HOW hard I try, or believe, or strive, or work, I cannot look like Alexandre Marx Carneiro here.  Few people can.  We can all get better, but we CANNOT be *anything* we dream.  That is all.

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New York
April 13, 2011

At Cross Purposes!

If you look like this and you are an attorney at a client where I'm working, it really isn't fair to me.
If you look like this and you are an attorney at a client where I'm working, it really isn't fair to me.

I wear several hats.  I’m a contract software trainer.  I’m a game reviewer.  I am a newspaper columnist.  And I’m a photographer.

Almost always, there’s no problem or conflict with these various roles.  They’re nice, separate boxes, without any spillover.

Except that sometimes there is.  And it’s frustrating.  The issue arises in the dynamic between the software trainer hat and the photographer hat.

Every now and then, there is someone at a client site, usually a law firm, that I am interested in photographing.  The trouble is, there is simply no way to pursue it.  I’ve thought about it from every angle I can come up with, and there just seems to be no solution.  There’s just no appropriate way to segue “… and that’s how you can minimize the ribbon in the new Word 2010 interface, ” with, “and by the way, would you like to be a model for a day?”  It just wouldn’t work.  It wouldn’t be professionally appropriate.

Which is annoying.  But there it is. Damnit.

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I’ve been having fun with my preliminary research on my dual signature quests in each foreign city that I visit:  Find Tex-Mex food and go see a movie (in English if possible).  It’s sometimes a challenge, but always fun, to try to achieve these goals.

Foreign Cities Where I Can Take You For Tex-Mex Food

  • Munich (not very good)
  • Budapest (dynamite!)
  • Tokyo (bleh)
  • Beijing (the Tex – great, the Mex – not so much)

 

For some reason I'm glad there's still a store like this.
For some reason I'm glad there's still a store like this.

Foreign Cities Where I’ve Seen Films in English

  • London (duh)
  • Edinburg (duh)
  • Paris
  • Prague
  • Munich
  • Budapest
  • Frankfurt
  • Tokyo
  • Beijing
  • Rome
Can you imagine trying to sell units in this building if it was in California?
Can you imagine trying to sell units in this building if it was in California?
Third Avenue Canyon
Park Avenue Canyon

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