Creating Passionate Users: Brain death by dull cubicle You always knew that dull, boring cubicles could suck the joy out of work, but now there’s evidence that they can change your brain. Not mentally or emotionally, no, we’re talking physical structural changes. You could almost say, "Dull, lifeless work environments cause brain damage."
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walljm
I have been writing on the web since 2000. I am a christian , a photographer, an occasional poet, a recovering dreamer, an occasional philosopher, a software developer, an autodidact, and I resemble the INFP personality type.
This blog hasn’t seen many photos lately, and I feel terrible about it. Truth is, and this is going to sound like a bad excuse, I haven’t had time to take any.But, like the title says, I’m going to Ireland this next week and I’m going to take a lot of photos. I hope to post a couple while there, but I can’t garuntee Internet access. I’ll post updates with the photos about how things are going and my thoughts and whatnot. I’ll keep a journal of what’s going on, and post that when I have access.Things I’m looking forward…
I’m lacking in photo’s to post, due in large part to a serious lack of time during good photographing hours to take pictures because I’m busy getting ready to leave the country, taking care of details that accumulated while in the hospital, and dealing with church business (something I rather enjoy). Why am I starting off a post about my Pectus Surgery like this? Well, *shrug*, because I’m in a rambling mood. And I feel guilty for breaking my promise to post photos every day. Oh well, there must be content, and Sean wants to know how things are going,…
VideoSift.com posts cool videos from video.google.com and youtube.com. When I visited it today, the dance video and martial arts video’s were astounding. Cool site.
The Choral Public Domain Library offers free downloadable sheet music in pdf format. Just after brief inspection, it looks pretty cool. A number of classical authors and a large number of authors that are undoubtedly famous but I’ve never heard of.
Through the course of living and relating to God, God teaches you things. Lately, He has been teaching me about Himself, teaching me to view Him as a Person not a Concept. In the course of this post I’d like to try and explain why this concept is important to me, and some of the impact it has on life as a Christian. The principle is that you have to approach your relationship with God much like you approach relationships with other people. It is a concept I knew but didn’t, and still don’t to some degree, fully understand. When…
Finally I have photos for you to see. I also saw the doctor yesterday for my first post-op appointment. Everything looked good and I’ll see him again in two months. He told me I could start jogging again, but I think that is a little ambitious.In my last post on this subject I left off just after coming home from the hospital. I stayed a week at the Spilgers home because my apartment is bereft of a recliner and sleeping on a bed at that time was a painful experience.Things were pretty tender the first few days. Getting around was…
Thus falls the evening dust To sparkle in the starlight Enchantment fills the very air Bound up in every dendrite Excitement racing through my flesh An arcane type of passion Deep within my soul is felt In mystifying fashion Abundant strands like silken thread Reflect the ghostly gloaming And fall like water down her back Dark as ink and soft as downing Probing eyes look out at me Beneath the thick black lashes The gaze a gently pressing force Felt on my racing senses Into the limpid pools I fell Such soft and dulcet beauty! With her forever I could…
In case you were wondering, no, I’m not engaged. The Proposal was the product of a fit of inspiration that grew out of my fascination with a mental image of a crystal clear autumn dusk in a small grassy dell beneath a large picturesque tree. In the air, falling like snowflakes, were small gauzy points of light. The word dentrites sprung to mind when I thought how to describe them. The scene was supposed to be electrifying. I wrote the first two verses trying to describe the scene then got stuck. I asked a friend if I should go up…
For those of you who know Dr. Guimon and aren’t aware of the current situation, I thought a brief post here might help to spread the word that he needs prayer.Several weeks ago he had valve replacement surgery to correct a heart problem sustained during cancer treatements when he was a teenager. The sugery was a success, but during his recovery he began having problems with his kidneys and lungs.As of today what I know is that he has pneumonia in both lungs, and has contracted Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) which is a very serious problem in the lungs,…
I’m sorta busy with getting the details of my life sorted through since I’ve been away for a couple weeks. Until I can clear the back log and can carry my laptop home again, the blog will be put on hold. Shouldn’t last for more than a week, but I wanted everyone to know.Thanks,Jason Wall
(The following is an introduction to a much larger collection of essays I have been writing off and on for the past few years, and thus leaves much of the meat of what I introduce left unsaid. Keep in mind also that I’m not writing to my blog audience here. The following should be read as though I were speaking to a church congregation. Thanks.)In the circles I run in, there is a man who is greatly admired by most, and who has achieved a large amount of respect. This man has built his reputation on a credo widely adopted…
A moment of distractedness during all the photo taking.
I selectively colored this one.
They had a quiet moment before all the excitement started.
The happy couple at the rehersal.
Here is the longer post I promised you. I’ll post pictures in a couple days after I’ve had time to take the post operation shots and retrieve the pre operation shots from my mom.Pectus Excavatum is a congenital birth defect that causes the ribs and sternum to grow abnormally resulting in a sunken cavity near the sternum. I’ve had mine all my life. The symptoms I’ve experienced seemed to become worse in the last couple of years. I’ve been easily fatigued all my life, and it takes longer for me to recover from physical exertion than is normal. Prolonged periods…
Although I have lots of time, my head is pretty foggy, so I’ll let this note suffice for a day to let everyone know that I am doing well, and thank you all for the prayers and well wishes and visits.For those who did not know, last Monday I had my Pectus Excavatum corrected. I have been in Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital for the past five days and unable to get on the Internet. The surgery went well, I’m in very little pain considering, and will be posting a longer more detailed account of the experience along with before and…
