June 2010
3 posts
Let the Great World Spin.
By Colum Mccain. A novel about the guy who tightrope walked in-between the world trade center towers. And other made-up people who are somehow connected to each other.
“[H]e was going to hang a slogan, he would slide it from the towerledge, leave it there to flutter in the breeze, like some giant piece of sky laundry”.
Sky laundry. Isn’t that a great phrase? It captures...
A Mission Statement.
What I love most about summer is the free time. Granted, this year there is substantially less of it, but I plan to make use of it in the best way possible: by reading!
It’s true, I love to read. I also love the feeling that comes after the finish of a very good book, where you can just pause inwardly for a moment and think. I find that most of my best thoughts come from books.
My...
Racing
Today I learned why our society is so screwed up. We want to better our society by coming up with a theory which will blow each other’s minds away. The problem is that, normally, someone else is thinking the same thing. So it becomes a race to get your solution out there first.
Darwin could have perfected his theory a little more, but he wanted to get his book out. Not that his theory...