There Goes My Hero

Tomorrow I'm going to meet with a hero/mentor of mine. He's a doctor and a musician (like me!) and has a crazy head like me too. I'm going to ask him how he deals with being pressured from all sides at all times. Actually, I already know how he deals... he just doesn't ever pull any punches. He says what he wants to all the time and although he won't intentionally hurt your feelings, if they get hurt it's your own fault. I'm not sure what I'm expecting him to tell me, but I'm hoping it'll help me stand up to my dad a little bit so he'll let me make my own choices in life.

In other news, I found an interesting program called Zinc that lets you make desktop applications with Flash. Sounds awesome because I wrote a piece of software a few years ago that transfers music from an iPod to your computer and people love it. The problem is that I haven't updated it in forever and it basically blows chimp now. So I was toying with the idea of re-writing it before med school starts.... and I know Flash WAY better than RealBASIC, which is what I wrote it in last time. Plus, Zinc is cross-platform so I can make a Windows and OSX version from the same source code which means I can start charging for it! I was thinking of charging $2 for it. Any thoughts on that? I thought it would be a good slogan to say something like "Two bucks. Come on! Come Ooooooooonnnn! It's only 2 bucks! Come Ooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnn." haha

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