After the Peak

1. In the time of Columbus, most people thought the Earth was flat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus#Navigation_plans
Actually, most educated people, and especially anyone involved with nautical exploration (eg, Kings, scholars, ship captains, sailors) had known the Earth was round since the time of Ancient Greece.  Even more interesting, the story of Christopher Columbus being the kind of genius […]

Follow-up to the life subplot I wrote about here:
About a month has passed, and so it was time to finally go out and get the proper kind of torchiere bulb.  Just got home with it this afternoon, and plugged it in.
Fucking lamp does not work!
And of course, I already threw out the other one because […]

I’m moving to London. I have been for a while. Processes are in motion for this really happening in late-June.
For some reason, everyone’s first response on hearing that I’m moving, is asking, “Why?”
Well, I didn’t exactly have a reason. But since “I don’t know” isn’t a very friendly response (see further: Alberto […]

A couple weeks ago the guy on the couch said something that I didn’t like.  So I bunched up a comforter and threw it at him.  I missed high and it sailed past him and knocked over the living room torchiere.  Glass everywhere.  Not only the torchiere glass broken but the bulb too.
So the living […]

As neuroscience every day brings us that much closer to understanding our the human brain in terms of being just a fleshy machine, the most intriguing feature continues to be consciousness.  Descartes’ claim of its essentiality to existence seems far-fetched — why can’t a rock be?  A rock is, is it not?  Yet romanticism with […]

Fortune cookie say:
You are always welcome at any gathering

This is a little piece of what may be the story of our generation:
Wired News: Stuck Pig
(Medical researchers have successfully revived pigs that have been in suspended animation for hours, after having drained their blood and replaced it with cryogenic fluids.)
Nothing is certain, of course, but it is undeniable that it will be very possible […]

Lee Trevino after hitting a hole-in-one picked the ball out of the hole non chalantly and when the reporters were all gasping he tossed the club in the bag and said,
“I don’t know what the big deal is - that is what I was aiming for.”

it’s so easy to know when i need to just stop thinking
will it be that easy to know when i should start back up again?

have you ever had a big chunk of your memories just disappear one day? you know what they were about, but they just weren’t there? and while you try not to think about it, while you stay in denial to prolong working through the more advanced stages of grief, you […]

Just returned from Miami last weekend, for Josh and Cheryl’s wedding. What a beautiful time. Of course, before I heap praise on their nuptials I have to state for the record that I’ve sincerely loved every wedding I’ve been invited to — each fit perfectly how I picture each of those friends, each was planned […]