Monthly Archives: June 2005
Smartmarriages Afterparty
We’re off to the Smartmarriages conference today, just in time for the weekend event to be wrapping up. We’ll pull in about four hours or so after most everybody else has pulled out. We’re not going for the conference part,which … Continue reading
Special
“Living in forests far away from other people is not true seclusion. True seclusion is to be free from the power of likes and dislikes. It is also to be free from the mental attitude that one must be special … Continue reading
Poem: For the Thief
I stole this from Mighty Girl, lest it get lost into the digital ether one day. Thanks, Mighty Girl, for finding this poem and introducing me to a great new (to me) poet: Alison Hawthorne Deming. For the Thief Thank … Continue reading
One Smart Cockroach
I had forgotten about Don Marquis and his creation archy, a cockroach smarter than most humans, until this poem landed in my inbox. I know lots of people like warty bliggens the toad. Somedays I am him. “warty bliggens the … Continue reading
Fathers’ Day
Fathers’ Day was yesterday. My Dad was somewhere in Oklahoma, not answering his cell phone. (Check your messages, Dad.) As with Mothers’ Day, it’s hard to expect to have adequate recognition for a year’s worth of parenting crammed into a … Continue reading
As it is
“Reality as it is becomes the right view of the meditator. Thinking of it as it is becomes the right thought. Awareness of it as it is becomes the right awareness. Concentration on it as it is becomes the right … Continue reading
Poem: Reader-friendly Cummings
I like this poem I found at lunch. My urge when I read Cummings with all his typographical oddities is to translate each poem into the way I would read it at a reading. Below I succumb to the urge: … Continue reading
Us Power
There’s this interesting story in Business Week about how technology is enabling mass collaboration and an emerging phenomenon of group intelligence: The nearly 1 billion people online worldwide — along with their shared knowledge, social contacts, online reputations, computing power, … Continue reading
Chipless RFID
An Israeli company called InkSure has reported approval of a patent for a conductive printable ink that can be used to produce “chipless RFID.” The goal price per chip for RFID has been five cents a piece. This technology can … Continue reading
Vanity Slides make the first Blog on TV
So, we have this DVR which is the irresistible force that pulls me in the opposite direction of my personal GTD efforts each evening. We also have set it to record, among many other shows, Two and a Half Men. … Continue reading
Art Implosion
This is what happens when you let artists from the Houston Art League get hold of a house that’s about to be demolished. Pretty wild picture from Gerry Mancasa. Check it out.
Beauty of an Aged Face
‘The Old Woman’ As a white candle In a holy place, So is the beauty Of an aged face. As the spent radiance Of the winter sun, So is a woman With her travail done, Her brood gone from her, … Continue reading
The Extrapolist
“If you draw the timelines, realistically by 2050 we would expect to be able to download your mind into a machine, so when you die it’s not a major career problem.” “We can already use DNA, for example, to make … Continue reading
Happy Accident?
This is not exactly hot off the presses, but apparently scientists hypothesize that the Female Orgasm is a “happy accident” and serves no evolutionary purpose, kind of like nipples on men. Let’s see, women get the big O and men … Continue reading
On Second Thought, Another Creative Conversation
“Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet they don’t just exchange facts; They transform them, reshape them, draw different conclusions from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn’t just reshuffle the … Continue reading