Whatever the answer, it’s yes that’s the question [insert meta-post here. abstract up. relate it to something unexpected. close with an astute observation. check for comments.]
March 31, 2006
Stella High Blue Time
It could always go wrong Two steps forward, ten steps back. There’s nothing left to see Watch out for dropping shoes.
March 30, 2006
Believe It Or Not
But I’ll roll up my shirtsleeves How do we know for sure? Who goes first? Can I do it? How long will it take? Could it last? Will it be “work?” Is there alignment? Can we overcome fear? These questions and more fill my head and heart today.
March 27, 2006
Welcome to Notio
Welcome, Big Picture readers. Barry pointed you to the Kid’s Today post. Thanks for visiting. You might also want to check out some of the greatest hits: * I’ve written a lot of personal posts this year, including Expressing Anger, Jung’s Typology vs. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Gaston Bachelard: Subversive Humanist, Your Song, Broken in Two […]
March 23, 2006
Mercury In Retrograde
This could explain the last few weeks. In general, Mercury rules thinking and perception, processing and disseminating information and all means of communication, commerce and transportation. By extension, Mercury rules people who work in these areas, especially people who work with their minds or their wits: writers and orators, commentators and critics, gossips and spin […]
March 23, 2006
All The Rage
Finally, I may be in step with a style trend, just this once. Whenever a countercultural trend becomes a mainstream one, there is a natural tendency to look for deeper meaning. Do beards that call to mind Charles Manson suggest dissatisfaction with “the system”? Are broody beards, like the dark and somber mood of the […]
March 22, 2006
Kids Today
My nephew, Matthew, is nine years old. He’s been taking violin and piano lessons for a couple of years. His dad, Alan, my brother, is a technology manager at a big company and has been livin’ the digital lifestyle for a couple of decades now. Matthew’s mom, Susan, Alan’s wife, my sister-in-law, is a graphic […]
March 21, 2006
In Case You Were Wondering
Do you happen to know if there’s wifi available in the Lebanon Coop? There is not. I have asked for it a few times over the years. Being board president doesn’t pull any weight on this, believe it or not (due to a personality-minimizing governance structure which is long-term good and specific-issue annoying).
March 21, 2006
Top ‘O The Morning
I like the brand-new Google Finance for its page layout and information density. Lots of Ajaxy goodness throughout – check out that slider under the long-term graph! Billmon exposes the hypocrisy that is John Snow, Bush’s Treasury Secretary, standing in for arrogant overpaid CEOs the world over. Not that every CEO is arrogant and overpaid, […]
March 20, 2006
Modern Baby Names
Off the top of my head: * Pixel * Bitmap * Ui * Mouseover * Hover * Feed * Titlebar * Favicon * Clickwheel * Earbud * Doctype * Serverside * Api * Voip * Hosted I threw away about half of what I thought of, but there are dozens more. I gotta get back […]
March 20, 2006
Create Your Own Reality
Now that my personal training sessions have ended, it’s time for me to stay in the exercise game without scheduled (and expensive!) moral and educational support. As part of that program, I’m going to do some minor dieting, to really nail down the fat loss in the waist line. This morning I went through the […]
March 18, 2006
On Being A Bad Internet Citizen
I’m sorry, I just can’t help myself: * Cute Overload Kittens * Kitten War * Rate My Kitten * The Daily Kitten * Cute Little Kittens Father, please forgive me.
March 17, 2006
Not So Much To Release The Sorrow As To Embrace It
Dave Pollard posts a letter from organizational development consultant Roger Harrison, “A Time For Letting Go” – parting thoughts on the occasion of his retirement. Via Jon Husband.
March 14, 2006
Lunch Menu
Went to the Co-op to have lunch with some friends. While foraging, I ran into someone I hadn’t seen for a year or more. “How are you?,” I asked. “Eh. [Someone]’s father died, so I’m getting lunch for him and going over there.” I had heard the week before that a key person had quit […]
March 13, 2006
Hot Tip For Online Electronics Buying
I ordered a new CD/DVD player this weekend. I’ll spare you the ridiculously obsessive materialist consumerist research process, even though it might make for a good blog entry. The bottom line was, once I knew what I wanted, and the eBay bidders outbid the value of a used one, and the authorized B-stock eBay sellers […]
March 13, 2006
Tour Tickets
According to the folks at GDTS-TOO, I will have an extra ticket for each of the following Ratdog shows: * Thursday March 23, Northampton, MA. * Friday March 31, Hampton Beach, NH. * Saturday April 1, Boston, MA. If you live in the Northeast, or want to fly in for the shows, and you’d like […]
March 13, 2006
First Things First
Consider: 1) If your shoelaces come untied at an inopportune moment, that could spell trouble. 2) People like choice. Hence: Ian’s Shoelace Site. A critical resource for people who want choices and also wear shoes.
March 10, 2006
Secret World
Seeing things that were not there On a wing, on a prayer Rediscovered Peter Gabriel’s Us recording. Beautiful, powerful. Especially the last song, quoted above. It reminded me of this (unretouched) photograph I took in Austria, at the Vienna State Opera House, in September, 2005: When I took this photo, I was seeing things that […]
March 8, 2006
A New Kind Of Showerhead
I’d like to make a new kind of showerhead, one that has more impact. As a simple example, who decided that showerheads are useful only for cleansing the body? There are many other things a showerhead could do for you. For instance: * If you never wanted to shave your legs again, or somewhere else […]
March 7, 2006
A Good Example Of A Dilettante’s Progress
I Googled “dilettante” to find the correct spelling (used in the phrase above) and in the right column I found a sponsored ad that eBay purchased for that word!! They don’t think their customers are dilettantes, do they?