A few nights ago, while watching a show on the History Channel I heard the following quote:
It is not the choice you want, but it's the choice you have.

As soon as I heard it I decided it was a quote worthy of writing down. The context for the quote on the show: black slaves in the US deciding whether to stay enslaved and alive, or to attempt running away and fighting for the British (Revolutionary War) and getting freedom while also risking death if they were caught running away. Obviously both choices are hard, but one must be chosen. Also, like Kyle Reese once said:
The future is not set... there is no such thing as fate, but what we make for ourselves by our own will.
All of us will sooner or later get into situations that will produce choices we may not like, but we must remember...we always have a choice. The take home message for the day...don't live with regret. (school, family, jobs, everything)
[tags]History Channel, choices[/tags]

I have been completely swamped with work for the last week, but I wanted to share some random points of interest that I have stumbled upon over the last few days.

I sat down to relax after a long day of coding to watch a great show on the History Channel called: Hooked: Illegal Drugs and How They Got That Way Opium, Morphine, and Heroin. This was filled with awesome tidbits of information like:

The Chinese first got hooked on smoking tobacco, then they added some opium to the tobacco...then they got hooked on smoking opium. Before this, eating little bits of opium was the most popular way to feel the effects of opium
Morphine was used to treat alcoholism, and even though alcoholics then became morphine addicts, it was more socially acceptable at this time (around prohibition) than to be an alcoholic because morphine addicts were less likely to start fights or beat their spouses
The hypodermic needle was invented to get morphine to into people's systems faster

Grant Lee Phillips, one of my favorite singers, released a new album this week and it is amazing. Anyone who is looking for a great summer album, be sure and ... [more]