I've been reading Wade Davis' book Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures in fits and starts over the last year or so. You cheat yourself of a chance to better understand just what you are if you choose to ignore his well researched insights into humanity's current condition.
I've been using, installing, administrating, figuring out, breaking, fixing, hacking, tweaking, and pushing WordPress since back in 2006 when I created this blog (I never bothered much with WordPress.com until much later when a client asked me to customize the look and feel of a site hosted there).
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It's dark out when I wake up and dark out when I return home from work. And it's cold. Why am I smiling? I've become a user. A habitual daily user. Such nice tiny white caplets too. They go down easy with breakfast, dinner, or lunch. No ill side effects either. Vitamin D3. Watching The Botany of Desire this weekend on PBS, Michael Pollan, et al made it clear to ... +more+
One of my favorite distractions is the Ukulele and one of my favorite things other people do with theirs is holding benefits for the rich. Playing a small instrument leaves you plenty of room for irony and good will toward others. Last year everyone pitched in and helped Warren Buffet (a pretty mean Uke player himself) and this year it's Yoko Ono's turn. I doubt I'll make it this ... +more+
Ten questions about the nature of privilege:
The following post is taken from notes I made January 3, 2007 (ho-hum and garment rending are duly omitted)
“’What is the Third Estate?’ asked the title of the most celebrated pamphlet of that winter, by the renegade clergyman Sieyés, ‘Everything. What has it been until now in the public order? Nothing. What does it want to be? Something.’ Anyone laying claim to any sort of privilege, Sieyés went on to... +more+
I'm not doing so well at that whole head in game thing. Not today. I have a lot of distractions. Of course, it would help if I could decide exactly what my game is, I suppose. Then again, see also my post on specialization. Anyway, I've caused some minor disasters at work. Okay, maybe they aren't minor. I suppose that depends on who you ask, but we agree on the disaster part. So, ... +more+
Okay, maybe I wasn't clear about one of the greatest things about the InSight Photography Project in my last post about it. John Willis, one of the co-founders reiterated last night at the board meeting that the point isn't just to provide young people an opportunity to learn about photography and themselves, but to provide that opportunity regardless of their ability to pay. That's ... +more+
Maybe it's the cover of the latest issue of Wired that clunked its way through our mail slot yesterday, but I started thinking about fear in the shower this morning. Pretty quickly my thoughts drifted to theatre and what I didn't do with it since earning my two degrees. I'd be kidding myself and lying to you if I didn't admit that Fear played a ... +more+
I began the day with a not wholly original post on the dissolution of French identity, this time slanted toward the destruction of their revered fine food culture. Let's face it, the French have been decrying the dissolution of their culture (and by extension all the rest of Western culture) due to American insanity pretty much since de Tocqueville. That said, the Reuters entry is a thoughtful ... +more+