Dumb Lines

The play "A Street Car Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams contains one of the dumbest lines ever spoken by a character in a modern play.

Mitch confronts Blanche with the stories he has heard about her past. Blanche, in desperation, opens herself up completely to Mitch, stripping herself bear, in a final attempt to survive.

Blanche has nothing left, but the truth.

Here are two lonely people who desperately need each other and have a chance to be happy.

If?

Mitch can say it doesn't matter.

He does not, he cannot, because of what Stanley has said and what his buddies will say. Plus, there is Mitch's mother and everyone else. Mitch, like Blanche is trapped. Of all the things that Mitch could have said, should have said, he says,

"You lied to me!"

BUT — Blanche just told Mitch the stark truth.

Mitch missed his chance to be what he could become and what Blanche hopes he is.

Didn't someone once say something about throwing stones, when another woman was facing her doom.

When Blanche leaves, she takes a piece of Mitch with her. Mitch has missed his chance and is back to being just one of the boys.

What is the dumbest line that you have said?

Carpe Diem,
Carl

Useless Habits

Habits can be good or bad, or somewhere in between.
We are admonished to replace bad habits with good ones. An admonition that is easer said then done.

Habits are safe, useful and both good and bad, because we know what to do without thinking. Thinking, there’s the rub. Thinking is hard, takes time and breaks the habitual flow.

Sometimes habits are useless.

I have been using Adobe Dreamweaver for over ten years, enjoying the benefits of the parodic upgrades in spite of the usual small painful stretch.

I could use Dreamweaver with my eyes closed on my duel  screens. Sometimes, showing off if a visitor was looking over my shoulder while I was working on a web site, bouncing between boxes on the two screens creating web magic.

For years web-masters have cried for adobe to fix the “Live View” window in Dreamweaver and make it a real live view — a very difficult task.

With two upgrades in the past months Adobe has done it and changed the entire workflow of the site.

Leaving me with a stack of useless habits. I was like a master buggy driver suddenly required to drive a car.

I attempted to make a simple change to this website that previously took a few seconds. As someone once said “all ___ broke loose!”. Three hours later the change was finally made.

Hours of unlearning and relearning followed.

Oh, how we fall-in-love with our habits.

 Cars are better then buggies and I’ll be happier when I catch-up.

’m still catching-up. Be patience. I’m in the middle of a major update on this website, that will help you discover the adventure of life here in he Land Where The earth Meets The Sky.

Carpe Diem,
Carl