(I'm really bad about posting my blog posts here, so I decided to post here and THEN post on my blog. Every other post is at http://kayrote.wordpress.com/)
It's easy to think that we haven't immortalized ourselves, or at least not enough. I'm pretty sure that, at the time I'm writing this, the only views on my blog are myself and the occasional Google bot. But, I think it's worth noting that even though people haven't read us now, they will in the future.
II remember a couple years ago I had an interview for a big internship. Aside from being my first interview, it was also done by a panel of 4 different department heads. I was nervous as hell, but I'd done pretty well preparing and only two questions caught me off guard:
1.) What would you describe as the difference between a mission statement and a vision statement. (I'm applying for a minimum wage internship, not your CEO position!)
2.) Do you like paintball?
I knew I had no shot with the first question, and told the panel that I would happily entertain them with something I thought of on the spot, but truthfully I didn't (still don't) know. The second question was really weird, though. I didn't understand why they'd ask me that, but I responded along the lines of "Never tried it, but it looks like fun", they smiled, and we moved on. As I was driving home, I asked my parents why I'd be asked about paintball. Turns out that when one searches for "Kyle Rota" in a search engine, they get a bunch of football articles, the usual twitter/facebook/LinkedIn/etc profiles, and a lot of profane, entertaining, but unprofessional posts on a paintball forum.
Turns out, there is a similarly aged Kyle Rota in Arizona who has quite a mouth on him. Which also explains the question about how long I'd lived in Washington, my best guess is that someone on the panel had searched my name and was trying to figure out whether we were the same person or different, and then which posts belonged to who. My point? Well, assuming there is one, it would be that we've probably immortalized ourselves sufficiently in this project - it may just be a few years before anyone else notices.
In response to the question on a mission statement v. a vision statement, I would like to take for example our project. We as humans are temporary, our existence (as far as we know) is limited to the length we are alive on this earth. A mission statement, with reference to this project for example would be to successful immortalize our existence rather than our being through the use of technology. While a vision statement I think would best be stated with the idea that our lives are only recordable as far as the technology will allow. We have set ourselves up for failure in this project and humans in general have, to say the least, "a lofty subconscious direction". Our project is a prime example of augmented reality and a desire for the unobtainable.
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