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About: The original temptation was to organize these photographs according to the categories (i.e. "file under" value) I've created for them. The more I thought about this, the more I came to believe that the only real option I ever had was to arrange them by upload date. I had this epiphany while browsing Matt's flickr: on the first page, you get large thumbnails and a menu of other albums that you can browse. Within each album, pictures are organized (by default) according to upload date/time. "What, if anything," I wondered, "is the point of having multiple albums?" The answer, obviously enough, is to keep things separated by subject matter: if I'm a photographer, I want to keep my scenic shots in one album, my portraits in another album, etc. Accordingly, I decided that an "album" or "category" based organization scheme was out of the question for demongin.org. The idea behind the lack of albums is that this whole "photoblog" is about one subject (e.g. the Heroic Exploits and Thrilling Adventures of YT) and, since I'm calling the shots (ba-dum-ching!) by deciding which photos end up in the blog, it makes the most sense to just have them arranged by upload date. Sadly, this photoblog, like everything else in this iteration of demongin.org, has a point or thesis. Le sigh. | |||||||||||||
| A Shotglass of Lymph: |
| In America we have a saying: "Living well is the best revenge." In China, they have a similar saying. This saying tends to be credited to the Sun Tze's Art of War and it goes, "If you wait by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy floating by."
The Chinese way to say it is objectively better. In the American way of recommending impassivity, there is a lot of pride and self-centeredness inherent in bringing the ideas of "living well" and "revenge" into the equation. The Chinese saying about impassivity is much less self-interested and therefore much more serene and impassive: it talks the way it walks.
Date: 2008-04-30 | |||||||||||||||||||
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