week #3, thing #6, flickr, mashups...

Flickr was fun. Mashups I found to be challenging. Sooo, I took the path of the least resistance. I thought to myself it was a lame thing to do, but when you start thinking the challenge a crisis, then it's time to take that path. Then, I read how that particular path is not viewed to be all that negative. Here we go, my first trading card. I wonder what it will be worth in twenty years.

















Senlin once wrote:
"Water takes the path of least resistance as it is pulled downhill by gravity. No one would suggest that this is the 'wrong' path, it is just the path that is determined by the laws of nature. Because water always takes the same least resistant course, it carves out its path. You could say that the grand canyon is a result of eons of water traveling along the path of least resistance. Yet, when the concept is applied to human behaviour, it somehow connotes laziness or lack of ambition. The least resistant path does not have to be an easy one. Is there merit in struggling, just for the sake of the struggle? If two paths lead us to the same place, is it not wiser to take the least resistant way? I'm not sure, but I do think that we could all benefit from being more like water. We're mostly made of it, after all - maybe we shouldn't be fighting our basic essence."