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. …
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…
The Good Delusions
I heard someone on a radio show recently talking about the beauty of nature. She went on to explain that if you are “in the moment” and in tune with what is going on around you — let yourself tune in, as…
Don’t Monkey With My Sun
It would seem that someone (more than once!) has had the hallucinagenically-induced idea to control global warming by building mirrors in space that would partially reflect the suns rays. To paraphrase Babbage, I am unable to apprehend the state of mind that…
The Fickle Green Wave
Humans are the most fickle of creatures. We have invented fashion as an antidote to boredom and it is this tendency to continually seek, invite, or invent change that is at once our most valuable attribute and our most vexing shortcoming. With respect to global…