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a PMI event, once a season whether I need it or not

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2013.06.13

Much to my amazement, I noticed that the PMI event I attended tonight was the first I'd been to in three months. I guess the allure of maintaining my credits through free webinars was what did it. While I'm learning a lot regardless of my course of action, it's best to get out once in a while.

Tonight, for instance, I met a fellow cycle commuter who'd lived in Japan. Small world.

Also, I learned that an acquaintance who's been looking for a job in Canada has finally found one. He's a long-time project manager and business analyst who wanted to be closer to his family in Toronto after years of working in the middle east while they lived here. He's found the kind of work he wanted, at the type of firm he was looking for, and I assume the pay is what he's after. One catch: the job's in Edmonton. Still, closer than Dubai.

rand()m quote

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

—Michael Crichton