Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

  • Distracted from distraction by distraction

    I ran across a small quote from Four Quartets from T.S. Eliot.  Looking up the whole thing, I found the opening of part III to speak to me.  Amazing how poetry can do that through the ages. Here is a place of disaffection Time before and time after In a dim light: neither daylight Investing…

  • My new range toy

    Usually that title goes for things that send things down range.  In this case I’m refering to something that you send things towards down range.

  • 90 second book review: Waking up to the dark

    At last a book that made it into my to read pile from something other than a podcast (although I must admit that I think I at least heard of the research mentioned at the start of the book on a podcast at some point): Waking Up to the Dark – Ancient Wisdom for a…

  • Interesting essay from RAW

    https://c4ss.org/content/41386 Had not heard if E-prime before. The corruption of good and bad into good and evil does ring true to me.

  • They forgot one…

    The county I live in (Grant) is dry (no alcohol sales) but there is a special vote on Dec 22nd to put it to the public to see we want to go wet. I got this in the mail today: A list of all the bad things that will happen if we go wet. I…

  • 90 Second Book Review: Influence

    Influence made it onto my to read pile from listening to some now forgotten episode of the Tim Ferriss podcast.  It actually may have been a few episodes that I listened to in close proximity.  Each time it was referenced as one that “everyone” has read and since I hadn’t I added it to my…

  • What do you mean?

    On the way to drop my son off at a film shoot for a commercial this morning (ah, the joys of homeschooling!), he asked me if I thought the attacks in California yesterday were terrorism.  I told him that depends on what you mean by terrorism.  If you mean what I think alot of people…

  • My new third place

    I first heard about the concept of a “third place” in a magazine article I was reading about starbucks a few years ago. Recently I was reading a book that referenced another book (which I haven’t read, but is on my ever expanding Amazon wish list) that clued me in on the fact that the idea…

  • Wicked