Chris Dee
- Gender: Female
| Total Posts | Last Post | Last Seen | Joined |
|---|---|---|---|
| 934 | 11/07/09 05:48:19 | 11/08/09 14:17:52 | 12/11/06 |
| Visitors Now | Visitors Today | Most Visits | Total Visits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 53 02/10/07 |
811 |
Recent
- Chris Dee on Cat-Tales Graphic Novel? Well, the beginning...
- Chris Dee on M&M Battles
- Chris Dee on Female Superheroes
- Chris Dee on Cat-Tales 58: Demon's in the Details
- Chris Dee on Heartbeat msg
- Chris Dee on Biased, Stupid, Opportunists or Lazy? This one we can fix.
- Chris Dee on Buds
- Chris Dee on Light Cats
- Chris Dee on Election Day
- Chris Dee on Cat-Tales 56: Armchair Detective
- Chris Dee on Why I don't hate Mondays
- Chris Dee on Joe Straczynski's "Faith Manages"
- Chris Dee on It's got a great beat but...
- Chris Dee on I don't want to jinx this, but...
- Chris Dee on Investment Strategy
- Chris Dee on We're all still a bit mad here
- Chris Dee on Blinders
- Chris Dee on The DEE...but then again
- Chris Dee on 10,000 Times
- Chris Dee on Lighting
- Chris Dee on New Chapter Day
- Chris Dee on Superman Trivia Question
- Chris Dee on The Men in Black
- Chris Dee on Holes
- Chris Dee on Disneyland
Latest in Chris Dees Blog
-
Spring Cleaning
It was time for some serious computer clean up, beyond the once a month defrag and manual checking of the anti-virus and anti-spyware software.
Those of us who took a creative writing class in high school or college probably know that old chestnut of walking around with a notebook and jotting down ideas or bits of poetry as they occur to us in our daily lives, and then turning to this miniature tome of inspiration whenever we are in want of an idea. I personally find it impossible to imagine such a thing without casting one of those poodle skirt and ponytail girls from Pleasantville High School as the would-be writer. It's so "Golly Gee, Mrs. Johnson, that sure was a swell writing tip you gave us last week. I'm never without my notebook now and, gee willickers, I already filled up 3 full pages with some keen ideas for short stories."
Beyond that unsavory feeling, I always feel that keeping little logs like that is ultimately unhealthy for the... -
Garbage In, Garbage Out
2 of my ex-clients are their own worst enemies. In one case, it might be deliberate. One of those subconscious self-destructive tendencies that there is no cure for but therapy. If someone is out to sabotage themselves, they'll succeed and there's nothing anybody can do. All you're going to get if you support, forgive, and overlook the behavior is to wind up on the list of things they have to drive away or destroy to achieve the alone-and-miserable status they think they deserve.
The one ex-c, as I said, is a question mark on that score. The other definitely is not, and that's good news/bad news territory, because GOOD-it can be fixed. BAD-if it isn't, then he too winds up in the alone-miserable-failure heap when he doesn't need to be.
The failing both ex-cs have is GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out. They tend to hire crappy people who come cheap - and there is a very good reason for that. It's like...
