"The downside is as follows: the Jean-Luc Picard who you wanted to be
..."
Isn't that the Jean-Luc Picard who celebrated his 135th birthday with cigars, good scotch and an evening at the brothel on Rigel-7?
Story submitted. Great book.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Cunnington" cunnington@sympatico.ca To: squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 11:39 AM Subject: PR Team Request: Submit this story to Slashdot
Please read the press release for the book 'Squeak By Example', and submit the story to Slashdot.
http://www.squeak.org/PressRoom/NewSmalltalkBookNowAvailableSqueakbyExample/
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Q: On the contrary, that is who you wanted to be: someone who was less headstrong in his youth, less impulsive, less like me. The downside is as follows: the Jean-Luc Picard who you wanted to be, the one who did NOT
fight
the Nausicaans, had quite a different career from the one you remember.
That
Jean-Luc Picard never had a brush with death; he never came face-to-face with his own mortality; he never realized how fragile life is, or how important each moment must be. So HIS life never came into focus. He
drifted
through most of his career, with no plan or agenda... going from one assignment to the next, never seizing the opportunities that presented themselves. He never led the away team on Millica 3 to save the
ambassador,
or took charge of the Stargazer's bridge when its captain was killed...
and
no one ever offered HIM a command. He learned to 'play it safe' ... and never got noticed by anybody.
Chris Cunnington PR Team leader
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