Jason Thibeault's Blog: From My Pen, page 83

Quote: Suck It Up, Buttercup

“Life isn’t fair. Sometimes it hits you in the face like a softball. Deal with it.”

- Sam, aka “Demon Boy”

Remembering an Important Day in Human History: July 20, 1969

Conspiracy theorists aside, today is the anniversary of a hallmark in human history: the first step on the moon.

What makes this date significant, beyond the scientific achievement, is that it galvanized a nation in a very turbulent decade in U.S. History. Despite all the anti-war protests, despite the racial tensions, despite everything else, the U.S. came together as a nation, banded together the globe, as humanity broke free from the confines of its atmosphere and established itself within...

Pain, The Mind, and the Vastness of Life

Could the mechanisms by which our mind deals with pain (i.e., blockout the memory of the actual pain) be related to our need for a God as a black to the overwhelming vastness of the world/universe? If so, realizing that we are insignificant, the “vastness” is “painful,” and God becomes a way to mitigate that pain.

A Desire of Homogeneity?

I am going to start this post talking about religion (as an institution and a meme) but please realize that the concepts I am discussing relate to any particulate ideology attempting to suppress other ideologies (or alternate “truths”).

Religion, that is a systematic structure designed to self-replicate (both biologically and culturally via conversion) beliefs in God, seems to me fundamentally flawed and dangerous in its desire for homogeneity of thought and purpose. In the eyes of religious p...

The Consumerization of IT

Before the advent of the Apple App store, corporate IT environments were walled gardens. Phones were often provided by the IT departments and although they couldn’t be locked down like their desktop counterparts, employees were often forbidden (by IT policy) from installed third-party applications because of security risk and support overhead. But that has changed with the explosive growth of smartphones. As new applications appear that offer productivity enhancements and connectivity to corp...

The Debt That All Men Must Pay

Throughout humanity’s history, we have assembled together in groups. Whether for the purpose of civil organization (like town’s and cities) or for like-minded company, or for protection, our nature has been to gather.

But that act of gathering together insinuates a trade-off. We must give up certain, inalienable rights that ultimately make for a more ordered group. For example, if we all went to a meeting and spoke up at the same time, it would be chaos and the meeting would degenerate into an...

Why a Digital Presence?

This post was originally published on the Limelight Networks blog as part of my responsibilities as Sr. Director of Marketing Strategy.

This is the second part in a multi-post series about creating, managing, delivering, and optimizing a digital presence.The first partintroduced you to the concept of a Digital Presence. This second part digs into why a digital presence is important and the impact it has on your business.The next post in this series will explore the digital presence workflow an...

The Colors are All Wrong: It Should be Really Dark Gray…

I love Washington and the Seattle area (having spent a lot of time there working with MSFT when I first joined Limelight Networks) but live there? I don’t know if I could take summer falling on a Wednesday and everything else rainy and dreary. Notice how they left that out of this infographic (despite it being really cool and pretty):

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Photos: Truly God’s Country

If you haven’t been to the SouthWest or experienced it raw, harsh, and unabashed beauty, you are truly missing something where skies can stretch for eternity punctuated by puffy white clouds or storms of ferocious intensity. Nat Geo recently put up a nice gallery of SouthWest images:

http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/trips/southwest-united-states/southwest-photos/

Tears Are Being Shed

With NASA closing the era of the space shuttle, it makes me wonder what will happen to our space program. Although the shuttle was extremely costly to operate, it was it’s signification that was important. It said to the universe out there that man, like Nixon coined, had added the heavens to his domain.

I can only hope that continued research and innovation in commercial rocketry and bold future administrators will find other means by which to continue humanity’s reach into the starts.

UPDATE:...