I have learned that managing a renovation is like being both the conductor of and the dancer to a live band that isn’t particularly good at carrying a tune. And occasionally a musician will fall off stage and break something.…
Author: onestring
Key to a low maintenance life (#3)
Rent.
Key to a low maintenance life (#2)
Keep short cropped hair.
Lightning Struck
Lightning struck the spot where you were standing The universe yawned and reclaimed the atoms of your essence You were just another conductor
The Golden Rule
“What I’m saying is that religion thinks it holds a monopoly on morality. No religion, no morality. I call bullshit. In fact, I would say it’s possibly a fear of having no morality — or rather, being told that one…
More Geo-Engineering Hijinx
Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I’m not sure about the former. — Albert Einstein It appears that the notion of reflecting the sun’s rays in order to deal with global warming has not died…
I Am An Evolutionary Success — Maybe
“Mike, look at me.” “I am looking at you.” “No. Look at me. What do you see?” “Okay… I see a thirty-something software guy, balding and growing a paunch.” “Aha, you mock me to camouflage your own glaring inadequacies, but…
Ishmael revisited
In my life I have read only two books a second time. The first was aeons ago and I cannot now recall what it was. The second was Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, which I just finished a month ago. This…
The Nature of Art
After being told by an art dealer that art is “anything that moves you”, a friend of mine once quipped, “Well, stepping in a pile of shit moves me, but I don’t call that art.” The art dealer’s defintion was too…
The Hipster PDA. Yeah, it’s real.
For a long time I have been looking for a good way to track all the things that I need to take care of in my life. I tried all kinds of electronic systems and daytimers and gave up on those. …