A Tall Drink of Noodles.

Just about 1 week ago to the minute…I got fired.

I got fired because I wouldn’t FIRE another employee! I refused because I don’t hire people…so why would I fire someone? Makes sense right? Well to my former boss that logic was completely unheard of. I said to him candidly…you’re the boss…you own this place. You should have the common courtesy to sit YOUR OWN employee down and talk to him/her and say that you don’t like their performance because of X, Y, and Z and that it’s not working out or something and you let them go. However you want to put it. He began to raise his voice and attempted to scold me a new a**hole. I wasn’t budging. I didn’t raise my voice at first because I was trying to take the high moral road here, but that was shortly lived when I was called a “MARTYR”. That is probably the worst thing anyone could ever call me. I worked hard for this guy and I get called a “MARTYR”?

I’m sorry, but FUCK YOU!

He told me to get out of his office and that I was FIRED. Incredible.

Oh and get this…the next day I txt’d the secretary that he wanted me to fire to check up on her…since she was fired and all…She was at work…and she was still employed. Is anyone else’s head shaking like a rattle or is it just me. Let’s make this clear. I was supposed to fire her. I refuse to do it. I get fired and she is still employed to this day still. Am I missing something? Am I upset? Hell no! I am the happiest guy in NYC right now. I’m free to do whatever I want now.

I’ve been offered the job of a lifetime. I’ll be working from home doing at stuff that I am good at…go figure. Oh did I mention that I am going to get paid for this? Obviously, I am still going to have to work, but I make my own hours. I work as hard I want to, which doesn’t equate to more money, but when I produce more results for my new employers I’ll be getting a nice commission from my progress. I really can’t stress to everyone out there to do what YOU want to do.

Do something that will make you happy.

I don’t care if you don’t have a college degree or a master’s. There is always something out there for everyone to do. Be realistic…not everyone can be the President of the USA. (Although, after our past few Presidents…anything is possible.) In all seriousness, which doesn’t happen often with me, heh, being miserable at work will destroy your life. I almost lost my mind working at my last job. I see a therapist because of that place. Seriously! No one could or would believe half of the crap that happened at that place. INSANE!

I’m glad I was fired.

I’m glad I stood my ground on personal integrity, honesty, loyalty, love, etc… Never cave into another person’s opinion if you know and trust your heart to be 100% correct. If you know that you are NOT 100% correct, then take in CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM, but NOT a belligerent boss. There is a difference. Just thought I would share my thoughts with you all.

I never thought getting fired would be so awesome!

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It finally came to me yesterday evening, right before I went to sleep. This might seem a bit obvious or basic, but sometimes you’ll see something subconsciously and not know in your waking life. You know…a bad person is not born bad. He/She are cultivated and then harvested like crops from a field. Hitler wasn’t born a monster. He became a monster based upon his upbringing and the environment he found himself in. Not saying that all bad people progress to the level of “badness” as Hitler did, but he serves as a hyperbolic symbol of my point.

We are all products of our environment and vice versa, our environment is a product of us.

I came to the realization that a bad person is bad because either another bad person had negatively influenced him/her, thus potentially destroying their ability to be or see good altogether. Or it’s quite possible that a good person did or said something bad to them by accident or were completely unaware of the damage (on different possible levels) they were inflicting upon them. Example: Lex Luther, the comic arch-nemesis of Superman was not always a bad, bald guy, that plots to destroy society and Superman. Luther used to be very good person with noble dreams of healing people as a doctor until a terrible accident happened and Luther was hurt and disfigured, to which he will eternally blame Superman for.

What does Lex Luther and this post have in common. Good question…

This is my point…

A good person can become bad for a myriad of subtle and not so subtle reasons. Not all bad people are truly bad…just as not all good people are truly good. When a good person is pushed and pushed (physically, spiritually, emotionally or psychologically) further away from being good, it is inevitable that this good person is doomed to become bad. The hope of ever becoming or at least seeing the good in anything becomes more and more remote with each episode of pushing.

I now understand why a good person could become bad.

Is it right for a good person to do bad things on purpose? Of course not. Do the actions justify the means? No, but there is a purpose and a goal to why a normally good person would do a bad thing on purpose and become bad. Can it be understood and rationalized? Yes, although the perspective that the good-turned-bad person is coming from is their own and thus skewed from society’s’ vantage point. If no one understands or listens to a good person’s perspective it’s quite possible that they will either become apathetically introverted or worse, methodically bad. Stories, motives and actions always change, but history shows us that humans are not infallible or immune to becoming bad.

Now I know how a good person can go bad.

I see that the overall principles of the self do not change in a bad person, they grow stronger. The hurt and emboldened self become one entity that rationalizes every negative action with a positive one. The negative impulses that would normally be held back or hidden become the normal and unhidden.

Fascinating…to understand the mindset of a good person gone bad.

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Rise n’ Shine! It’s Tuesday July 21st, 2009. Noodles’ Nugget of Minutia of the Day is: Had a dream last night that I became a designer of 3rd Party iPhone related products.

Talk about being a nerd.

I was actually conceiving new products, mocking them up, creating presentations, pitching companies and making a zillion bucks in no time.

This all happened in the dream.

I then branched off from the original company that hired me and formed my own company to which I hired an incredible team of product specialists and marketing agents…the whole 9 yards…

I was able to make enough money to put myself back into school and get my masters and doctorate degrees.

………….and……….then…….I woke up.

Lovely.

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Rise n’ Shine! It’s Monday July 20th, 2009. Noodles’ Nugget of Minutia of the Day is: Having a Mid-Life Crisis at 32 is completely unsettling and yet at the same time, a truly eye opening epiphany.

I’m just glad I am not going to be one of those 55 year old bald guys with the long pony-tails that drive a new red Corvette, divorce my wife for a stripper, only to lose everything all at once and come to realization that material stuff and surface aesthetics doesn’t mean a fiddler’s fart in the grand scheme of things.

Life means more than things and stuff.

Wake up and live.

(PS – I HATE MONDAYS!)

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Thurman + Rain @ Thurman’s 27th Birthday Party at Last Exit Bar (Brooklyn, NY), originally uploaded by NoodlesMcIntosh.

Just got back from Last Exit in Brooklyn. Thurman was in good spirits while drinking good spirits. Good times. Happy Birthday @TheThurman. Thank you @TheSoundsOfRain for putting up with my BS. (I like to stop quite often and take photos.)

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Rise n’ Shine! It’s Saturday July 18th, 2009. Noodles’ Nugget of Minutia of the Day is: I’m jealous of the Hubble Space Telescope. It can peer deep into space + time and see in wavelengths I can never humanly achieve. I can only see in ROYGBIV. Imagine seeing and interpreting the universe with Infrared light? Or Ultraviolet light? Or X-Ray? Or every wavelength. There has to be intelligent life out there that can see in at least some of these wavelengths. Life has a funny way of existing. You never know.

Maybe jealousy isn’t the optimum word to use. Maybe the word should be enamored.

I’m enamored with perspective + possibility.

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Rise n’ Shine! It’s Thursday July 16th, 2009. Noodles’ Nugget of Minutia of the Day is: Money will destroy your life.

We are always worried about money. If you have to little of it, you go crazy trying to get it and become jaded to everything. If you have too much, you go crazy spending it and lose touch with reality. It’s a fine line to walk across.

What do you do with your money? Save it? Spend it? Give it away? Burn it? Swim in it? Pray to it? Curse it? Make love to it? lol

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Rise n’ Shine! It’s Wednesday July 15th, 2009. Noodles’ Nugget of Minutia of the Day is: What is the purpose of paper towels? Are paper towels for lazy people that cannot keep a small or medium sized cloth or towel nearby? We all use paper towels from time to time, but do we really need to? I can understand using them for picking up smelly or really gross stuff that you really shouldn’t be touching with your hands, but for spills and small messes? Come on…

From this day forward, I will try my hardest to not use paper towels unless it is the ONLY thing around to use.

(Do not get this confused with toilet paper. Totally different, pardon the pun, ball game. lol You really can’t use toilet paper more than once. And if you do…you’re an effing weirdo. lol)

But on to the minutia…

Paper towels, paper, or any flat surface for that matter can not be folded more than 7 times. Good luck getting to fold number 8. It’s impossible, unless you had a press machine or something.

The reason for this is that every time you fold, the number of layers doubles. So 1 sheet of paper becomes 2, then 4, then 8 and so on. Before you know it that little vein in your forehead is popping out trying to fold a piece of paper.

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Rise n’ Shine! It’s Tuesday July 14th, 2009. Noodles’ Nugget of Minutia of the Day is: Today is Bastille Day! Fête de la Fédération or French Independence Day! July 14th, 1789 marks the end of the French Monarchy and ushered in the begins of Modern France as we know it today.

A little known fact about King Louis XVI was that his father King Louis XV once said, “après moi, le déluge.” or “after me, the deluge.” He read the signs on the wall and predicted the fall of the French Monarchy many years prior to 1789.

Don’t believe me? Read it on wikipedia: “après moi, le déluge”

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Rise n’ Shine! It’s Monday July 13th, 2009. Noodles’ Nugget of Minutia of the Day is: Absolute Zero is the coldest temperature that can be possibly acheived in the entire universe. (at least for now.) It is a theoretical number because as of this posting no one has ever reached this magic number. Scientists have come extremely, and ridiculously close to it, (in 1999 rhodium metal was cooled to 100 picokelvin, or 1 tenth of 1 billionth of a degree Kelvin) but not ABSOLUTE ZERO. It is so incredibly difficult to cool something down to that point. ABSOLUTE ZERO according to the major 3 temperature scales are: -459.67 (Fahrenheit), -273.15 (Celsius), and 0 (Kelvin). At this temperature atoms become so still that they start to have an identity complex…so to speak. Instead of the total atom acting like 1 atom, the sub-atomic particles within atom behave in a bizarre manner as if like each particle is the atom itself. In 1924, Albert Einstein and Satyenda Nath Bose came up with a theory that when atoms are cooled down to such a degree that their entire state of being collapses and quantum effects would start. Essentially a new state of matter is formed! Sounds crazy…and it is! When this happens even light can be slowed down to the speed of a bicycle. It boggles the mind. I highly suggest and recommend watching this special from NOVA on Hulu. It’s entitled ABSOLUTE ZERO. Here is the link: ABSOLUTE ZERO

Watch it now…and thank me later.

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