Name a book that changed your mind or opened your eyes.
I came across this prompt on Plinky, a nifty site I came across through another blog a few days ago.

How To Be a Perfect Person In Just Three Days by Stephen Manes
How To Be a Perfect Person In Just Three Days! by Stephen Manes.
I read this book during childhood a few times. It had the protagonist doing silly things like tying a broccoli around his neck in a vain attempt at following the steps to be perfect that were outlined in a book he had found. The last step was to stay up all night drinking weak tea. Sounds pretty easy in the age of the Internet, right? Except all he could do was move his arm to bring the weak tea to his lips, anything else would make him fail. He fails and fails hard.
This book made me realize there it is impossible for anybody or anything to be perfect. It’s important to try for your best but perfection would quickly become boring! Would anybody appreciate the good things they have in life if everything was good or would somebody’s good qualities stand out if everything about that person was perfect?
Maybe reading this book worked too well and I never aimed for my best in a lot of things – excepting writing, coding, and English courses – but it kept me from becoming miserable about the fact that I am far from perfect.
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It’s been a while, been neglecting my blogging duties in favor of coding, coding, coding. I’m rewriting and trimming where I can (two not released scripts but ones I hope to eventually release, a lyrics/albums script and a quotes script).
Went to Disneyland recently, both Disneyland and California Adventure. The food is just as terrible as I remember (seriously “taco sauce” AKA ketchup for Mexican food?) but it was awesome to be able to get on Indiana Jones and Pirates of the Caribbean. California Adventure has a little tortilla factory that gives you one just made tortilla for every visit. The parks are still very kiddie but being a kid isn’t so bad at Disneyland, no? I hadn’t been back in years, last time I got a yearly pass I got burned out. My father used to take us multiple times a week so that we could get various collectibles they were passing out. Can barely remember what though I remember them passing out pogs and slammers (remember those? you should if you’re a child of the nineties) for about a week. I saw so much Disneyland that year I loathed the thought of going for over seven or eight years, it just made me ill. Oh well, now I have a pass and going in small doses is the best way.
I recently found out that php scripts should not have ‘PHP’ in the title (e.g. phpMyAdmin, phpFan, phpWhatever), wonder how that works for phpFan. :/ I’ve read two blog posts on the topic and some people were saying it was all right if it was a PHP script but I somehow doubt it. There are so many scripts with PHP in the title, some very popular like phpMyAdmin or phpBB, and nothing has ever happened. However, I’m thinking of renaming phpFan but not sure to what.
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claire Gel Gabrielle Angelica
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Mar
2009
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