I almost missed this.

h/t to Gizmodo

A user on Reddit.com posted a personal story about how his life is out of order and how depressed he feels and how he believes something is wrong with him. It is a long but decent read. I thought a reply to this post was very well worded. While targeted towards this particular user, I feel that it is good advice for anyone feeling down. Here it is.

Kind of depressing, but a lot of folks have been down this path. I think most get out of it, but end up miserable for years. I don’t know your philosophy on life, or if you even have one but I can tell you how to move the ball forward just a bit. You should devote tomorrow to cleaning your apartment. Not picking it up and moving the garbage around clean it. Stop at nothing until it is perfectly spotless. When you have finished that task start to organize your life on paper. Work at it. Do it better than you have ever done anything. I am much older than you and I’ll tell you one lesson I’ve learned …

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I request a meaty post from Chad updating everyone re: where his life is currently.

Hey everyone. I haven’t posted in a while. Love the blog, just never get around to posting. Driving through life at 80 miles and hour and keep missing my exit, if you know what I mean (don’t even think I do.)

Anyways- I just wanted to write that things are going great. The school quarter wrapped up a week ago, and then I flew out to San Francisco to AdobeMAX where things went great, and now I am back at Rochester and heading to Boston from Tuesday to Sunday for thanksgiving break.

On a few topics that deserve more elaboration, AdobeMAX went great. I gave a presentation on the New Media Showcase which was my senior project along with other juicers and talented youngin’s and the presentation was about not only the showcase but sort of a general philosophy on new media and education and the like. Again, this deserves more attention, but the talk went spectacularly. I was at a special Adobe event at Adobe headquarters before the actual MAX presenting to educators and industry leaders and the like. I was the first in a series of talks, and I got to talk for 40 minutes. I really felt like somehow the talk came together, and I really ended up impressing a lot of people. People were coming up to me and the professors all day saying what an excellent job I did and I actually was being referenced in future talks throughout the day. One guy told me that when I got up there, he didn’t expect me to say anything “important” or enlightening or anything that would get him thinking. He said that I just blew him away and that some of the stuff I was talking about really got him thinking. Anyways- it rocked. Real hard. Adobe gloating done.

On to school, school went awesome. Army Ants wrapped up great. I need to capture video on the school computers of the game so I can post it here and elsewhere. I think the game went really spectacularly.

Finally, Darkwind Media is rocking out hard. Luster is blossoming into a fine young gentleman. We will be releasing our first public demos soon, which show off some neat shaders and also take that platform and create a visualizer out of it. Real cool stuff. Be sure to “stay tuned”

That’s all. I need to post more. I need to comment more. I read everyones post and I am glad everyone is doing well. Peace my friends. Keep on Juicin’

P.S. Future posts to come: One on “What Android means for the future of mobile devices” based on my own speculation and a second on “Army Ants : A Post-Mortem”