Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

Not sure what corner, what cross streets or even what city, but a corner was turned  nonetheless. My retirement savings balance is now higher than the only debt I carry, our mortgage. The weird thing is, that matters way less to me than I thought it would.

I hadn’t read any of when I saw this, but have since read through The Last Question and We Can Get Them For You Wholesale.  They were both great reads so sharing the whole list from Johnny Lists. 1. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell — The story of a big game hunter finding himself stranded on an…

Listened to a Tim Ferriss podcast on the ride up to Detroit this week where he interviewed Amanda (F*ing) Plamer who just so happens to be married to Neil Gaiman, author of this and some other great quotes: “I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach…

The few readers I have may have noticed that I have fallen off the blogging wagon again.  My goal to post every day turned into every week and now I’m back to having no goal.  There are two underlying reasons for this “failure.” This: And this: The first is a picture of a bust of…

I had the pleasure of international air travel this past week, so among other things that meant lots of time for reading.  The selection for this past trip was “A Clockwork Universe” by Edward Dolnick.  The book includes a number of vert interesting anecdotes, which all add up to a number of different points. The…

In 1985, at the age of 12, I left the US for the first time and travelled with my family to Germany and Austria.  I was a member of the Cincinnati BoyChoir (yes, 2nd soprano and everything…) and we were “competing” against the still world famous Vienna Boys Choir on their home turf.  In the…

It may have saved me a little bit (or maybe a lot) of wasted time – the worst thing to waste.  (HT to Hamlet’s Blackberry for bringing these back to me): As with our colleges, so with a hundred “modern improvements”; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil…

Still reading quite a bit. Just finished “Lies My Teacher Told Me” (it was OK – not sure I reccomend it though) and then finally started and finished “The Lean Startup” which if you have tough projects to get done is a must read IMHO. Now I am on to “Hamlet’s BlackBerry” which describes the…