January 15, 2004

There were 4 posts published on January 15, 2004 (this is page 1 of 1).

Another Lucid Dream

I had another lucid dream (or LD) this morning, breaking a slump of sorts. I think I had already hit the ol’ snooze bar once before it began. Seems when I sleep on the “shallow” side, I tend to remember my dreams more. I think that’s why the LDs show up more often at that time.

The LDs I’ve had have hardly ever compared to the intensity of my very first one. I think my emotion and excitement helped make that first one special. My recent LDs have not been all that exciting, actually. Typically, I’ll be drifting through a dream where I’m back on my ship. Since I’m quite sure I’m no longer in the Navy, it is easy for me to recognize that I’m in a dream. At that point, things will get more vivid and I’ll try to derail whatever might have been going on up to that point.

I think what would help me in my LD explorations would be to decide beforehand what the hell I want to do in them. When I happen to recognize I’m dreaming, I come up short in knowing how I want to direct them. With no ideas to guide me, I tend to fall back into dreaming. Boooorrrrring.

HAHT Commerce Sold In Firesale

Looks like my former startup company, HAHT Commerce has been acquired. They were purchased by Global eXchange Services for $30 million. This is after investors sunk +$47 million into the company since its inception.

Its kind of a sad, firesale ending to the company. At one point, I was loaded in HAHT options. It wasn’t long before I realized how diluted they were becoming. I never exercised them, and its probably for the better.

I wonder what will become of my former coworkers.
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I’m Turning Greg Fishel

I caught myself doing something yesterday during a demo which surprised me. I was in the middle of my speil about our product when I realized my cadence sounded familiar. The it occured to me: I’m trying to sound like Greg Fishel, the WRAL meterologist.

It wasn’t a conscious decision. I just noticed that I sounded a lot like him. True, I have heard him speak on the air a lot, and maybe I admire his flow of words. It wasn’t easy learning how to speak on my feet the way I do. It helps to have a model to pattern yourself after. In this case, it’s a forecast model. Ha ha! A little joke there.

Seriously, with that and my weather geekiness at having my own weather station, things are starting to get a bit weird.

P.S. While I was fishing for a Greg Fishel link for this post, I came across a story on Bill Leslie’s new-agey CD. While I haven’t heard any of Bill’s music personally, I seem to recall he was John Tesh’s roommate at UNC. And that pretty much tells me all I need to know about his music.

Then again, I could be wrong. But what are the odds of that?