I am currently reading Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World by Craig and Marc Keilburger. On pages 44-45 I came across a few paragraphs that ring so true for me and echo so well some of the…
Category: Observation
Things that have made me go “Hmmm…”
Dump Deconstructed
Since I am a renovator, I am obliged to haul demolition and construction debris to the dump from time to time. I expect this gives me a somewhat different perspective on this topic than folks who don’t make that trek…
2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl
I may have had a mini-epiphany brought on by reading something in a book I purchased a week ago called 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, written by Daniel Pinchbeck. I wasn’t really sure what it was about — some kind…
Less Egregious Orchids
“Ever felt pangs of guilt for being born in Canada?” “Not sure what you mean.” “Well, I mean, my wife and I watch HGTV all the time. She’s a designer, so when the kids aren’t monopolizing the TV we flip…
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 Blackberry scourge
For those of you out there who feel that an electronic PDA or Blackberry is the shiznit, you will have a difficult time convincing me. Six months ago I left a job of five years that required me to carry…