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the boom has boomed

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Sydney, 2001.02.16

I've got the feeling that something's in the wind. I get the strange impression that the tech boom has indeed, as someone recently told me, boomed. But things at home are different and I'm starting to wonder if I'm going to be renewed past the three month stint for which I was hired.

rand()m quote

It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row