By J. Timothy King on August 12, 2009
This morning, after I dropped the Missus off at work, I headed down Washington Street toward Mishawum Road, where I needed to make a left turn in order to get to the highway. Now, this particular intersection has two left-turn lanes. That is, if you want to make a left turn, you can either get […]
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Inspiration, Leaving Normal, Stories, True Stories, Wishcasting Wednesday | Tagged herd instinct, innovation, psychology |
By J. Timothy King on July 28, 2009
This morning, at my daughter’s sleep study, as we were waking up, I had a profoundly encouraging and empowering daydream. It wasn’t an intentional visualization, something I wanted to see come about, but purely a spontaneous daydream, of the sort that encroaches upon your consciousness in those fuzzy moments just after you awake. Last night, […]
Posted in Inspiration, Job-seeking, Software Development, Stories, True Stories | Tagged career, dreams, interviewing, programming, psychology |
By J. Timothy King on July 23, 2009
Jeremy Brooks, looking surprised A quick anecdote… Jim “Suldog” Sullivan’s post today about being groped by a woman (and then later, by a drunk man), it reminded me of a “groping” anecdote of my own, one that interestingly didn’t make it into the Love-Idiot book. I went rollerskating with some friends, in particular, a girl […]
Posted in Humor, Love and Relationships, Stories, True Stories | Tagged love, romance, sex |
By J. Timothy King on July 20, 2009
The biggest block of time in my software-development career I spent working in an extraordinary job, a very special place to work, with a very special group of people, for 14 years. Throughout the dot-com boom, I stayed there, ignoring the promises of exciting work and increased salary. But before I worked there, I tried […]
Posted in Leaving Normal, Software Development, Stories, True Stories | Tagged career, Damon/IEC, EFG, Kurzweil Music Systems, programming |
By J. Timothy King on July 15, 2009
The following story is derived from parts I wrote for Love through the Eyes of an Idiot. I met Margaret in February 1992 at a Bible study. We talked. She looked young for her age; she was a little older than I had originally thought, but I didn’t see how that mattered, because we were […]
Posted in About Tim King, Books, Love and Relationships, Love through the Eyes of an Idiot, Stories, True Stories | Tagged love, marriage, romance |
By J. Timothy King on July 14, 2009
In my day, I went on my own share of bad dates. Here’s one from Love through the Eyes of an Idiot. It all started after I developed a crush on this girl, a little young for me, but her mother liked me and trusted me. We sat and talked sometimes. She was small, cute, […]
Posted in About Tim King, Books, Love and Relationships, Love through the Eyes of an Idiot, Stories, True Stories | Tagged dating, love, romance
By J. Timothy King on July 2, 2009
An open letter to Delilah Rene, the (now) nationally syndicated radio DJ Dear Delilah, Last night, I had some extra time before I had to pick up Margaret from work, so I took the kids on a tour of Dedham. (It was on the way.) I passed the house where you used to live, where […]
Posted in About Tim King, Books, Love and Relationships, Love through the Eyes of an Idiot, Stories, True Stories | Tagged Delilah, friendship, love, relationships |
By J. Timothy King on May 13, 2009
On March 28, at about 5 PM, 9-year-old Sarafina, probably in tears, talked to the 911, while her 23-year-old brother was stabbing her two sisters with a kitchen knife. When police arrived, less than a minute later, he was decapitating 5-year-old Bianca, the youngest of the family, while Bianca’s uneaten birthday cake still lay on […]
Posted in Personal Improvement, Stories, True Stories | Tagged crime, dream interpretation, dreams, psychology, Sarafina Revelus, true crime
By J. Timothy King on May 6, 2009
Ever since man has been able to think, he has tried to understand his dreams. He has called on dreams for divine guidance or for self-understanding. Many methods have been put forward for interpreting dreams. Some theorists have written off dreams as mere random thoughts that intrude into our sleep. Others have gone through great […]
Posted in Personal Improvement, Stories, True Stories | Tagged dream interpretation, dreams, Ivan Tyrrell, Joe Griffin, psychology |
By J. Timothy King on April 21, 2009
(This is a continuation from part 2 of “Depression and the Software Developer”.) [Note: This is a recounting of an experience from several years ago. Read the story from the beginning in order to catch up.] According to psychologist Joe Griffin, the cycle of depression starts when innate needs are not being met. Among these […]
Posted in Confessions of a Veteran Software Developer, Personal Improvement, Software Development, Stories, True Stories | Tagged biography, depression, Ivan Tyrrell, Joe Griffin, programming, SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder, Software Development, software engineering, stress |