Making the world a better place

So...

in the train again, for the way back home... this will most likely be a short post (as much as I can be short with my 6' 1.5" :-). I need to get some stuff done for my job, which is starting to drag a little too much behind for my own taste... But I feel the wind changing now, I think I'll soon unleash the power of the MAD Googler and solve all the world's problem in a few hundreds lines of code... Yeah right...

Actually, with my previous employer, I once realized that I wasn't really helping humanity by simply writing code... I must be here for a reason... I have special skills (as we all do, I don't think I'm "that" special) and there must be a way for me to put them to good use... All these people that have worked so hard and had such brilliant ideas in the past few millenniums to make the world what it is today... Can I be one of them for the generations to come? I would sure love to...

For a while, I thought that my day job was just a plan B until plan A would get in motion, so that my songs, my stories and/or my movies would be broadcast all around the world to spread the words: "Have Fun!!!"... And the world would be a better place to be, thanks to my participation and the choices that I made in my simple and humble life to help others have a better one.

I describe this in more details in a short philoscientificomic essay that I wrote almost ten years ago (already?)... It is in French though, but I may decide to translate it one day. Let me know if you would like to get the English version when it becomes available. In the conclusion of that text, I come up with three laws to govern the meaning of our lives, similar to the three laws of robotics that Asimov came up with about 50 years ago (yeah, I know, Copycat, Copycat, Copycat... whatever...).

But as I'm getting older, shorter of breath, and one day closer to death, I have less and less faith in my capabilities to change the world with my artistic creations... I actually have more chances of changing the world with my biological creations (and I love every single cell of those two princesses), as they may develop better skills or make better choices than I did and take up the task of making the world a better place for generations to come... That wouldn't be too bad as a backup plan ;-)

But life has such interestingly funny twists... As I started to lose faith in my plan A of an artistic career, my plan B got to be more and more interesting. And I now have the feeling that as a Google employee, I actually have more chances of making the world a better place... I know... Still thin... But still... Much thicker than when I used to work for Avid Technologies...
OK, I'll stop here before I get to say bad things about my ex... employer... of course... I would never say anything bad about my ex-wife... of course... Come on... who does that? Who?... Really?

BYE
MAD... really... :-)
P.S.: On the bridge again, the view... the view.... wow... :-) Sun setting on St-Lawrence river... wow... I would take a picture but the windows are way too dirty... ho well...