March 2008
34 posts
“If I had the influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the...”
– Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder
“Give me the power to create a fever, and I shall cure any disease”
– Thales, pre-Socratic Greek philosopher.
In an attempt to oust the horrible bacteria or virus that has invaded my body, I am inducing a fever by sitting in a steam room today. But for how long must I keep my body temperature raised in order to smoke out the bug?
Earth Hour 2008 →
Join the movement, take a stand, turn off your lights from 8p to 9p on March 29th and make a difference.
George Speaks, Badly →
“Really, if he can’t fix the economy, the least he could do is rehearse the speech.”
MX San Francisco - Managing Experience through... →
I received approval yesterday to attend this conference in San Francisco next month. I have never been to San Francisco, or a conference for that matter. This should be exciting! I’m looking forward to it.
“The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the present moment, you are...”
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
A Boy Named Sue, and a Theory of Names →
Johnny Cash may have been wrong about A Boy Named Sue afterall. Studies showed that children with odd names got worse grades and were less popular than other classmates in elementary school. In college they were more likely to flunk out or become “psychoneurotic.” Prospective bosses spurned their résumés. They were overrepresented among emotionally disturbed children and psychiatric patients.
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“Calm in quietude is not real calm.
When you can be calm in the midst of...”
– Huanchu Daoren
Kristi (my sister): Write a story about a trip you want to take.
Alex (my 6yr old nephew): I want to go to New York so I can see my ant.
“And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.”
– Homer
Who Are Jack and Jill?
We are all familiar with the popular nursery rhyme, Jack and Jill. And for those who are not, it goes a little something like this:
Jack and Jill went up the hill To fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after.
As children, most of us chanted this verse very merrily, entranced by the way it rolled off our tongues, it never occurred to most of us to...
The $2 Trillion Nightmare →
The war in Iraq will ultimately cost U.S. taxpayers not hundreds of billions of dollars, but an astonishing $2 trillion, and perhaps more. There has been very little in the way of public conversation, even in the presidential campaigns, about the consequences of these costs, which are like a cancer inside the American economy.What large opportunities were lost because of the money being poured...
Ecoterrorism Suspected in House Fires in Seattle... →
Five luxury homes in a subdivision marketed as “built green” […] were destroyed or severely damaged by fire early Monday, and evidence at the scene suggested the fires might have been started by radical environmentalists who viewed the homes as violating rather than complementing the wooded wetlands in which they were built. I never knew there was such a thing as eco-terrorism until today....
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