Addendum: Owned by Google

So there is a slight disadvantage to this dashboard widget, which is that it has no scroll sidebar, so the more I write the more I push the window down past the edges of my screen, thereby losing my capability to press "Publish".  It is also impossible for me to move the window higher into the vertical nether reaches past my weather report and yet-unsullied Stickie.  It appears that I will be forced to become much more journalistic (succinct and/or episodic -- given my continuing verbosity, as well as gradiose ambition to hit 1000 words a day, I have a premonition that it will be the latter. Incidentally, if I could program/edit programs, I would make a filter that would play a sound effect of choice at the word count threshold of one's choosing, which may or may not be attached to another sound resembling a typewriter "ding" everytime you hit "enter". This, alongside my beloved vision of creating the web server ".dot", and the subsequent mother host site of "dot.dot", is among many in my archive of Unreasonable and Wayward Dreams.  I read on the plane to Budapest about somebody who dropped their career in ___XXX___ financial promise ___ in order to become "an inventor".  I lie. It wasn't on the airplane. It was in something almost as non-descript as an airplane magazine. And it's going to irritate me for a long time--longer even, than my eyeballs are going to irritate me right now since I forgot to take them out before jumping into bed with my thoughts and keyboard--that I can't remember.What I can remember is that I thought to myself, "God, what about her parents. Hard enough saying 'I'm going to take the higher path (if you flip the world upside down) and be an artist."  Imagine if I came home and said, 'Hey Ma, I'm gonna be an inventor." Although this would add to my list of -TORs I could become (reference: What's In A Name? This blog, 2005 somewhere). I am still in parenthesis.  Who was it that coined "parenthetical thinking?" Was it the same schmuck that talked about "rhizomatic thinking"? "Schmuck, in German, means jewellery.  Speaking of parents ...