Curtis Olson wrote: > After being out there and seeing that whole hollywood mess first hand, > I'm not sure I'd consider a star as a compliment. Then for the rest of > eternety you have people walking on you, spilling crap on you, spitting > on you, dropping gum on you. It's all incredibly shallow and > meaningless. I'm not sure why people get so excited about it. > At least the masses have got past worshipping tree trunks and mountains, but they still have a need of a different brand of pap, it's called "CELEBRITY".
> I'd rather do something positive, or help someone, and maybe (hopefully) > never get any public recognition, but in the long term, you know you are > making the world a bit of a better place at least for a few people. And > you never know what big cascading effect some small positive action can > have. What looks like no big deal to one person can be a huge deal for > the person on the receiving end. > > When I'm long gone, I'd much prefer that there is still some cascading > positive ripple from my life going forward, versus having some physical > star that people can step on and spit on. Of course if I did have a star > out in Hollywood, then people would have a place to assemble the flower > arrangements. :-) > > Curt. > I often get strange looks when someone is mentioned and I say I've never heard of them, then they proceed to bore you with details of the subject's private life, at which point I switch my ears off. If I were remotely interested, I'd spend money buying a trash magazine instead of Today's Pilot and waste lots of time sitting in front of a goggle box. Do something positive and join the ranks of of the unknown, die fulfilled. The gods need the worship of every moron. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
