| 10/02/2008 10:00 PM |
| The Glasswalk Experience |
It’s becoming clearer that the only thing that could possibly console me in my old age is wealth. I am also realizing that middle age can be a great time, filled with opportunities to do things you could never possibly have done before.
“WHY WALK ON BROKEN GLASS?
We all have potentials that we leave unexplored.
Fear [...]
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| 01/27/2008 11:01 PM |
| Confessions of a Fishkeeper |
I bought my first aquarium when I was 10 years old. It was one of those “everything” for $8.99 deals, where you got an Ambassador 10 gallon tank (trimmed in slick black plastic), an air pump, an inside filter, 2 feet of airline tubing, a packet of fish food and a plastic bag with 10 [...]
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| 12/20/2007 02:52 PM |
| Mas MOSFETs, please |
I’d like to appropriate the term “MOSFET” for use by technology marketers, and to confer upon it the following signification in our jargon: A MOSFET is a new technology intended to recreate the effects of an old one.
Some years ago, when I was an audiophile and used to spend a lot of time reading high-end [...]
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| 11/16/2007 11:40 PM |
| Doodling |
I just realized the reason doodling is so important is because it is so telling of us. We doodle only when we are so very distracted by something else, that a part of our bodies (and with it a part of our minds) has felt free enough to produce without effort. That’s kinda [...]
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| 08/12/2007 12:22 AM |
| Road Trip Installments |
These are some short notes I penned at motels and road stops between Portland and Chicago, during a roadtrip I undertook with a friend last October. They were intended for another blog, which never materialized. So here they are, instead.
Portland, OR (10/18/2006)
An old friend of Joe’s let us park the rig on a [...]
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| 07/27/2007 04:40 PM |
| The art of the deal |
2HousePlague (04:00 PM) :
you’re a history buff, yes?
hudson (04:01 PM) :
not too much, but I like interesting things
hudson (04:01 PM) :
what’s that?
2HousePlague (04:01 PM) :
[a business letter]
2HousePlague (04:01 PM) :
it’s an interesting letter written by an enterprising fellow a long time ago
2HousePlague (04:01 PM) :
basically, he has no money
2HousePlague (04:02 PM) :
but he’s trying [...]
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| 05/14/2007 08:28 PM |
| Stone Soup |
Once upon a time in Eastern Europe there was a band of gypsies who’s thing it was to go house to house whenever they were hungry and hadn’t any means. They’d ring a random doorbell and ask whomever answered for a pot to cook in and a stone.
“That’s all we need for [...]
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| 03/02/2007 12:51 AM |
| Powerless Day |
I’ve never been the sort of person to sit and stare at something I’ve made for a long time after making it. I like to move on. If you had asked me right after I “finished” writing Ferus Rex whether it was going to be the only novel I ever wrote, I would have [...]
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| 02/11/2007 11:51 PM |
| Moving the Assemblage Point |
Those already familiar with Carlos Castaneda and his anthropological field work in Northern Mexico will recognize the term “Assemblage Point”. It is much used throughout Castaneda’s twelve books, which chronicle his experiences with a Yaqui Indian named Don Juan Matus between 1960 and about 1975.
Assemblage Point relates to the description of [...]
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| 01/17/2007 02:22 AM |
| Working smart |
I used to think that “working smart”, as in the expression “Don’t work hard, work smart“, was essentially the same thing as being lazy. Because the smart work of some seems to go further than the hard work of others, those who have a capacity for smart work don’t seem to work very [...]
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