I Balanced Brisket Dreams, Solar Questions, and Long CIO Calls
May 23, 2020 Lehan Edirisinghe
I spent hours on a CIO candidate, thought about solar practicality, money, Freemasonry, and negotiation psychology, and let brisket, coffee, and craft fantasies carry the day forward.
Wishing I Could Taste the Brisket
Wow this looks really good.. I wish I was there so I could try some of this brisket...
Questioning the Practical Efficiency of Solar Panels
Sun light is unlimited, but the real question beckons science: is it energy efficient to produce the technologies which harness energies, is it practical to build the solar panels that'll last a few decades?
A CIO Candidate, Freemasonry and Life Beyond Video Games
Sat 23 May
2:30 p.m.
I had a meeting with Gayan ██████████ for like 3 or 4 hours over the phone. He wants to be CIO.
I had lunch. I'm watching YouTube. I'll probably charge my phone or go buy a charger and cut my hair at a place my mum recommends.
I wish my gay barber Daniel █████████ was there to cut my hair like Damian Lewis in the Billions TV show I like so much.
I noticed I don't really play any video games anymore. I just don't. I like to do business and reading and stuff like that. I listen to music to relax.
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4:15 p.m.
I'm getting sleepy. I don't think Gayan ██████████ is going to do much. He won't cut it.
6:00 p.m.
I'm getting pretty sleepy. I think I have to go to Udhantha's birthday in the evening. I spoke to Jacques Huyghebaert, a masonic scholar, we agreed to meet up for a chat.
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I tried being a mason at 18, but I was in Singapore. I had to go to school at Singapore Institute of Management 6 out of 7 days.
I was too tired to do it then, no time, I spent Sunday doing laundry and shopping. Maybe. But I wanted to have fun. I joined at the right time, 21 or 22 is the right age to join.
Then, I went to England, I originally enquired to join at 21, then when I was 22 and about 3 months, I joined in December or something.
9:45 p.m.
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I'm so wealthy, we have 3 houses on the road, we renamed it after my grandmother.. I love it.
[Udhantha's birthday]
Asking What People Can Do for Cyberspace Command
Sat 23 May
2:30 p.m.
Exhibit 3. Company Policy
"Ask not what Cyberspace Command can do for you, ask what you can do for Cyberspace Command."
Turning Cattle Into Meat With Emojis
Sat 23 May
2:30 p.m.
Exhibit 4. Cattle in for the slaughter
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Moo moo moo 🐂🐃🐃🐂🐮🐂🐃🐂🐃🐂🐃🐄🐃🐃🐂🐄🐮🐃🐃🐄🐂🐃
[OUT]
🥩🥓🍖🥓🥩🍖🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🍖🥩🥩🥩🍅🍅🍒🍓🍉🍎🥫
Rewriting “Purple Rain” as a Song About Making Money
Sat 23 May
3:00 p.m.
Exhibit 5. Makin' Money
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Bathing in cash money
I never wanted to be your weekend employer
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Pal, I could never steal you from another firm
It's such a shame our business deal had to end
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And let me guide you to the company profits
Making money, making money
Making money, making money
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Only want to see you
In the cash money
Songwriters: Prince Rogers Nelson
Purple Rain lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Using “I’m the Captain Now” to Win a Negotiation
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2. Say "look at me, mf, look at me, I'm di Captain now."
3. Get what you want.
4. Win upper hand in a negotiation.
Promising to Pass Advice to Sri Lankan Health Authorities
Thank you Madam, will pass on advice to health authorities in Sri Lanka
Painting Grandma, the Artist’s Curse and Chasing Perfection
Sat 23 May
8:30 p.m.
Exhibit 9. Painting
I love painting. My oil painting of grandma wasn't perfect. After looking at it flipped, I saw mistakes, I suffer from the artist's curse where you can't see the mistakes in what you make.
I'll work on my craft hobby throughout my life to paint people accurately. I need to use modern, advanced technologies, techniques, tools, instruments, tricks, the best paint and be extra patient.
I love creating things out of a blank canvas. There's just something so special, magical and majestic about making something out of nothing.
My grandmother's painting was rushed and completed in less than 3 days. Less than 5 hours at most per day. She demanded it be done quickly when I told her about her "surprise".
I think I'll use advanced computers, sensors, scanners, underdrawings or underpaintings, fancy lasers and projectors and other devices to make sure everything is as close to 100% accurate.
I'll use many, many thin layers of paint to get to perfect. I think that's the secret. I think another secret is to study the art of painting carefully, practise, use the lasers to guide me, really work on it.
I actually made her 666 forehead scar on this painting. It's my most valuable possession because it's a biblical article and artefact that's blessed with prosperity.
My office is blessed, only I'll be allowed to buy and sell in this world. It was probably one of the best things I did in life. I knew she was going to go. It was the way when it was time to say goodbye...
Quoting Patrick Bateman on Whitney Houston and Self-Preservation
Sat 23 May
9:15 p.m.
Exhibit 10. Self Preservation
"Did you know that Whitney Houston's debut LP, called simply Whitney Houston, had four No. 1 singles on it?
It's hard to choose a favorite among so many great tracks. But 'The Greatest Love of All' is one of the best, most powerful songs ever written about self-preservation and dignity.
Its universal message crosses all boundaries and instills one with the hope that it's not too late to better ourselves
Since, Elizabeth, it's impossible in this world we live in to empathize with others, we can always empathize with ourselves.
It's an important message. Crucial, really. And it's beautifully stated on the album."
Patrick Bateman
Vice President
Pierce and Pierce
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Ministerial Job Requests and a Moment of “Eternal Flame”
Sun 24 May
12:00 a.m.
Exhibit 11. Recommendations
I just spoke with my mum's brother ████████████████████. He told me his minister friends are asking him for special appointments, and then, sending people over to ask him for jobs at Cyberspace Command.
Crazy..
"Am I only dreaming?"
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Is this burning an eternal flame?
Close your eyes, give me your hand, darling
Songwriters: Susanna Lee Hoffs / Thomas F. Kelly / William E. Steinberg
Eternal Flame lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG Rights Management
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