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Another one: My manager is at my desk, and notices a screensaver running on my PACS workstation (this is a 3 mega-pixel dual landscape monitor setup.) I'm running the "starfield" screensaver that is standard on XP. My manager says, suspiciously, "is that something you added on there?" I explain that it is a standard screensaver inculded in Windows, but she remains vaguely under the impression that I am "hacking" the computers.
Another time, a nurse who had called me to set up a web application on their floor, followed me around telling me about which machines had screensavers on them, and she knew that "we aren't supposed to do that" so could I "take them off." I tried, with no success, to explain that what they were probably told was not to download screensavers. I took the screensavers off of all their PCS, they were running the standard XP "scrolling text."
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There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there
it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your
expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever
gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track.
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