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This is cool. I can’t think of anything else to say. When I use twenty layers for an image I feel like I’m using a lot – this one is made from over 500,000!

You can pan and zoom in on the image when you follow the link below.

This is the largest image I have ever created, pushing the boundaries of the software and hardware as far as they can go. It was unveiled at the Photo Plus Expo in New York on October 28, 2010 as a work in progress. A 25 foot light box was constructed to display the piece that has been printed on a new material being introduced by Epson.• The image size is 60 inches by 300 inches.• The flattened file weighs in at 6.52 Gigabytes. • It took four years to create.• The painting is comprised of almost three thousand individual Photoshop and Illustrator files. • Taking a cumulative total of all the files, the overall image contains over 500,000 layers.

via Times Square.

Where there is time, there is change. Where there is change, there is time.

Time is either involved in creating momentum or complacency and decay.

Time is for growing and dying, never for living. Living happens only in the now.

“Someday” “back then” “later” “if this happens” and things like that are not places in time, they are places in the imagination where delusion usually grows. Places in time have numbers.

It is impossible to do anything in time. We can only plan things in time. We do things now.

Whatever your concept of God or higher power, there is no interaction in time, only the present.

Creativity requires time. So does entropy.

Time is the one thing you can’t get more of, find elsewhere, or buy, so don’t depend on it for anything.

Its much easier to do something now than to do it the rest of your life. Its impossible to do things later. Later is an illusion.

Learn from the past, be thankful for the learning, and apply it in the present.

Don’t rely on or become attached to the future, there’s zero chance it will exist exist as you hope or expect it will if it becomes the present.

If you can accept the present, you won’t regret the past or need the future. If you can’t accept the present, its because you need the future, regret the past, or both.

I was just talking with a friend about coffee – again. I admitted that if coffee is not an addiction it will probably do until I find myself actively addicted to something else. Incidentally, I am perfectly happy accepting myself with this particular “addiction” if that is indeed what it is.

Here I’m using my new definition of “addiction” borrowed from Neale Donald Walsch: If you can’t be happy without it, its an addiction. If you just like it, but can accept being without it (which I did for a month) its a preference. Or, as I would call it – a life enhancer.

Since my caffeine fast in February I have spent some time thinking about this whole thing, asking others about their use of caffeine, etc. I’ve also become more conscious about how much I’m taking in – an more consciousness is always a positive thing.

Here is an article that breaks down the amounts of caffeine in a bunch of different foods and drinks. All I have put in my mouth from the list is coffee and tea. If you find yourself enjoying much of the rest of it, you may be surprised at how much caffeine you are taking in every day.

How Much Caffeine Is In That? | Wise Bread.

The time between my retirement from the Navy in November 2008 and now has been the best in my life. I just read Steve Pavlina’s 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job and while I am still digesting it all, one point resonated soundly right out of the gate.

Social conditioning. I’m not so sure having a job is as bad as he says – for each “con” I bet I can come up with some “pros” while at the same time, he certainly isn’t wrong with any of it. I just don’t feel enslaved by my job. In fact, I’m pretty stoked about the way I look forward to going to work every day and I enjoy the people I work with.

Here I am at my job. Rep. Shimabukuro helped us out with our Open House by giving the key note speech. She's a very cool person.

Anyway, social conditioning: Steve makes a great point when he describes how risky depending on one job or income stream is…

Many employees believe getting a job is the safest and most secure way to support themselves.

Morons.

Social conditioning is amazing. It’s so good it can even make people believe the exact opposite of the truth.

Does putting yourself in a position where someone else can turn off all your income just by saying two words (”You’re fired”) sound like a safe and secure situation to you? Does having only one income stream honestly sound more secure than having 10?

I remember a time around spring of 2009 when I had been off work – funemployed – for months. I wasn’t sweating it. I didn’t really need to in terms of keeping a roof over my head, paying the bills, or putting food in my family’s mouths. I was talking to this guy who I’m sure is the type who’d tell you to “trust God” about everything. However this cat doesn’t seem to trust God for the big stuff like arranging happy abundant lives.

I mentioned that I wasn’t sweating the load over finding a job and letting it play out. I can honestly say I was expecting the Universe to take care of it. I kept an eye on jobs coming up here and there, applied for a few that looked fun, but left out the worrying. I sure as hell wasn’t going to struggle into the first job that would hire me.

When I related this plan he got all uncomfortable like I’d just told him I was going to try some eye surgery on myself. His message was basically “don’t trust anything but having a job – do whatever it takes to get a paycheck coming in.”

As it turns out my faith was well placed, or my plan worked, or however you want to look at it. I have a really cool job that I like a lot. I started at a wage higher than I was willing to work for and higher than other jobs I’d applied to hoping to get – twice the pay of some of them to start and I’ve had over a 10% raise since!

Another thing about this job I like is that it is temporary. I used to be addicted to the “security” of a permanent job like the military. These days I’m happy with taking life one bite at a time. When it is over next September I get to take time off and try something new.

It’s all about perceptions.