John Borwick’s blog

I’m experimenting with merging my work and home e-mail repositories. I put Thunderbird on my Thinkpad and ditched checking mail on my work desktop or my mac at home. I have all my e-mail sent to my work account, which I then divide into “Next actions–home” and “Next actions–work”. That way, if something urgent but personal comes while I’m at work, I can deal with it. When I work at home, I can send e-mail the same way I would as if I were at work.

I’m doing this partly because of my work-supplied Cingular 8125. I can check my e-mail on this thing. However, to do the message-filtering I want to do, I have to use Exchange, and I have to set up Exchange server-side filters. Then I can see my work and personal e-mail on the 8125 when I’m really bored or if I want to see whether I’ve heard back from somebody.

I’m also on AIM again, much more than before: “GanchoPrime”. I don’t have any of my old contacts, so hit me up if you haven’t in the last week or two.

I’m starting to read “Thus Spoke Zarathustra.” I bought it a few years ago mainly because the title is awesome. I think Will Emigh and I then talked about how ridiculous the title is.

Well, this sounds pretty dumb, but I was watching “Little Miss Sunshine” the movie where one of the characters reads Nietzsche. I thought to myself, “yeah, Nietzsche is probably pretty cool,” and I realized that I have assumed that sometime in my life I would read Nietzsche–that it would be impossible to live and not read Nietzsche.

Then I realized that the only way I was going to read anything by Nietzsche was if I actually up and did it. And guess what? I LOVE THE BOOK. I don’t know why, and I’m sure that most people who’ve read “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” would be offended that I like it, but I am at a point right now where I’m reading several texts and they all seem to coincide. Everything from “the 80/20 Principle” to Zen Buddhist texts to Nietzsche says to discover yourself. Nietzsche (er sorry, Zarathustra)–who I don’t agree with on this point–just thinks that people who don’t discover themselves should die off.

So, I just looked up whether, in North Carolina to get married, you have to have a blood test. No: you don’t need a blood test in order to get married.

I also found out that in NC, “cousin marriages” are legal. In other words, in NC you can marry your first cousin. However, “double first cousins” cannot marry. According to Wedding Vendors.com:

Yes, cousin marriages are allowed. First cousins may marry, but double first cousins may not marry. Double first cousins occur when the couple is related through both parents. For instance, Jerry marries Sally and Jerry’s sister marries Sally’s brother. Their children are double first cousins.

Good To Know.