Or, why I decided to form a terrorist cell to serve a sadly neglected cause Okay. How many of you remember when they promised us in grade school, back in the Seventies, that they’d convert this country over to the metric system by the time we were in college? Remember that? Remember the “brave new [...]
Or, what few, vapid ideas Mr. Farlops could think of to spur discussion in his bulletin board. History is not a fractal and history is not a cycle. History is an infinite landscape that always changes, and while looking self-similar in parts, never repeats. Progress doesn’t lead to some final resolution. Progress replaces old problems [...]
Music My musical tastes tend towards the eclectic. Perhaps a good expression to use in characterizing them is “college radio.” The stuff you hear on college radio at 3 in the morning gives a good example of what I listen to. Pop music from Africa is horrifyingly cool. Also, despite being a geezer, I have [...]
Chairman Mao made everyone in China ride bicycles. It was probably one of the few environmentally sound decrees he made. I heard that his population growth policies weren’t very smart but, he was the champion of bicycles. Now the situation in China has reversed itself–sane birth control policies yet everyone who can afford one is [...]
What’s this site all about? I don’t know actually. I’ll say it’s three things: A collection of links to sites I am building and maintaining or have built and worked on. A showcase and test-bed for my, hopefully, temperate Web noodling. A repository for some of my creative urges and some of my friend’s creative [...]