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...
Jun 28th
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...
Jun 14th
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...
Jun 3rd