Monthly Archives: August 2002

I can just be walking along and break into a chuckle for no reason that is apparent to the casual observer. Usually when I do this it is because something I saw or overheard reminded me of one of Kevin … Continue reading →

I’m starting over. Three chapters into Thomas Merton’s “Seeds of Contemplation,” I realized that this book cannot be read like a normal book. So I’m going back to read and contemplate more deliberatively and reflectively. The words and thoughts are … Continue reading →

Gracies has got to be the coolest alternative culture collective I’ve ever seen. Check out the variety of happenings and grassroots inspiration going on there. I came to Gracies via a cobweb site I found while trolling for Yerba Mate … Continue reading →

I was browsing Red Rock Eater Digest (link’s on my sidebar) when I came across this link. It’s a page of MP3 downloads from a jazz musician named Steve Coleman. He is the brains behind a concept called m-base which, … Continue reading →

I went to school with this guy. Vato de Futuro Wayne Pethrick has a cool home page. He’s one of the sharper crayons in the box over in the UHCL Futures program and I still have occasion to work with … Continue reading →

Seeing as how I skipped lunch, industriously working at my desk, I was looking for a snack while out running errands on my way home. I passed this place in a strip shopping center intriguingly named “Bubble Island.” It appeared … Continue reading →

Wow, apparently Futurescan has been named a “blog of note” on the Blogger homepage. I guess I should update more often. Indeed it is supposed to be a collaborative blog, but I have been the only “Vato de Futuro” to … Continue reading →

On weekdays, especially now that school has started, I have a little window of time to spend with my kids. I get home at 5:00 and my kids go to bed at 8 or 9-ish. That leaves me three hours … Continue reading →

I love it when two apparently unrelated realms of human endeavor intersect. I especially love it when I come across two delicious examples of it in the same day. Serendipitydo! First the Internet Scout pointed me to a page of … Continue reading →

I found another web ruin (last updated 1998) that stands as a cyber Mount Rushmore of sorts of the preeminent minds of our time. This Technoprophets page apparently was a class assignment at pre-9/11, pre dot-com bust Duke University. I’m … Continue reading →

It’s hard to know when you’ve just experienced an artistic performance that is a classic for all times. Are time and perspective absolutely necessary to bestow superlatives of timelessness? Did the peasants in the pit of the Globe Theatre have … Continue reading →

The last piece of TV flotsam I witnessed on my sick leave was a showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show on American Movie Classics last night. It was weird watching that film without having a lighter and a squirt … Continue reading →

I’ve had a gut-wrenching two days. Not emotional trauma gut-wrenching but intestinal illness gut-wrenching. So apart from spending a lot of quality time with my loo and laying around willing time to move faster relative to my conscious perception of … Continue reading →

I am wearing, for the first time in years, my wedding band. I am so married it is ridiculous, but ever since my ring shrunk (ahem) to the point of cutting off my circulation, I have had it in a … Continue reading →

This last weekend several hundred teenagers hanging out in a K-Mart parking lot were arrested by Houston Police for “criminal tresspass.” Just about everyone here thinks the arrests were ridiculous and the whole affair caused a big stink. Much debate … Continue reading →