Monthly Archives: January 2003

For over eleven years I’ve worked for a little Cuban lady. She was a very good boss. It was like working for your favorite aunt. Her management style combined a mother-hen concern for her subordinates with a guard-dog-like vigilance in … Continue reading →

What is it, exactly, that makes “daylight” so “broad”?

Dave Barry has a blog (via Fred). A Blogspot blog no less. This is so cool! No, no. I’m still working hard, promise.

At least for a few weeks. I have to go off and do some intensive work on a project I am launching elsewhere on the web. I will need to concentrate my online energies for a while, and so I’m … Continue reading →

It pours. I came home yesterday fresh from my fishing expedition at CD Warehouse and found four CD’s waiting for me. I quit the Columbia House record club last August and, through a variety of snafu’s, I didn’t get my … Continue reading →

Yesterday was the last day CD Warehouse was in business. All CDs were twenty-five cents. It was pretty picked-over. I couldn’t resist casting my net once more into the Dead Sea of Bargain Bin Land. So after I tossed off … Continue reading →

“You have always been one with the Buddha, so do not pretend you can ATTAIN to this oneness by various practices.” — Huang Po “I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like mist; return to … Continue reading →

‘Don’t Go Far Off’ Don’t go far off, not even for a day, because –because — I don’t know how to say it: a day is longand I will be waiting for you, as in an empty stationwhen the trains … Continue reading →

“As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord’s name.”-Sri Sarada Devi I think that works the other way around too, right?

“Our peace of mind increases in spite of suffering; we become braver and more enterprising; we understand more clearly the difference between what is everlasting and what is not; we learn how to distinguish between what is our duty and … Continue reading →

Wilco beat out Eminem for Wired’s Rave Award for Music.

The Millennium Project at United Nations University wants to know what you think about the future of science and technology. If you want to see the work of bureau-techno-futurocrats at its best, check out the Millennium Project.

Well, I totally missed Overflow’s three year anniversary, which was, from what I can see, on January 10th. I was planning to write a self-indulgent retrospective entry looking back on all my favorite posts. I missed my chance to get … Continue reading →

This is a nice poem by Bernice Lever, established writer and Bowen Island resident: PRAYERI don’t want to live everydayas the last day,grasping and claspingat disintegrating carelike a fish leapingfrom an oil slickinto our polluted air. Grant me the wisdomto … Continue reading →

I’ve had the name Chris Corrigan written on the whiteboard in my office for well over a month now. He’s an expert I’ve identified for a project I’m working on (big things… coming soon…) — a specialist in using Open … Continue reading →