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Slashdot Science Story | Scientists Create Artificial Meat. I don’t think I like the idea of this at all. I think most of us are already too far removed from the source of our food. I like knowing my burger came from a cow and my bacon from a pig. This just sounds too much like [...] Image by SendakSeuss via Flickr In a recent email my father observed that I haven’t updated the site in a while. He has also become the external voice to echo that voice inside me saying “write”; repeating the prod in every correspondence. More importantly, he encourages me to write routinely. So, I’ll dedicate today’s writing to [...] Random bits from the day that I might try to tie together, or might leave out there for any random readers to draw their own conclusions. A while back I had the opportunity to interview with the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation for an Information Systems Manager position. There were roughly 50 applicants for the position. I [...] View Larger Map I just read Taming the Bicycle, in which Mark Twain tells of learning to ride a Penny Farthing bicycle. I would like to take the time to thank all those engineers, inventors and cycling enthusiasts who have brought us the modern bicycle. I don’t know that I would be as tenacious as Mr. Twain in [...] I don’t remember exactly when I discovered 43Folders; more than likely while searching for information on David Allen’s Getting Things Done. I’m almost certain that Merlin Mann’s site was my first taste of what those in the know call productivity porn. I found his insight addictive. Soon I got turned on to other sources and [...] I should not judge Mr. Armstrong, but I cannot help but think, on the news that he will will race again, of A.E. Housman’s poem The time you won your town the race To-day, the road all runners come, A few years ago my friend Tsuyoshi Fukumoto introduced me to Pandora and my sense of wonder in music was restored and exponentially expanded. I introduced a few other folks to it, feeling like a kid in grade school who was going to trump everyone during show and tell. My pal Paul Salcido wrote me [...] Generally, I find that I am reading more than one book at a time. I will read a few chapters of a fictional piece and then pick up something historical or self improving. I go back and forth between the two, or sometimes three, unless it is something totally captivating that allows me to focus [...] I bought new undies today – Hanes’ boxer briefs, tagless, comfort waistband. I have worn a size medium for a while, but apparently medium has changed. On a pair of boxers only a couple of years old, also Hanes’, the label medium reads 32-34, on my new pairs medium reads 34-36. We’re getting fatter. But I [...] |
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