When I find myself in a curmudgeonly state, I listen to episodes of StoryCorps. I used to listen to it on NPR’s Morning Edition on the way to work on Fridays, but my car radio doesn’t work anymore. Now I listen via podcast. I honestly don’t know anything that more predictably awakens my love for humanity than listening to these recordings. All the complexities and quirks of human being are there, and those things are always kind of new and…
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Not too long ago, I was asked by a publisher if I might consider reviewing a children’s book. We corresponded a little bit and I said I would take a look. If I liked the book, I’d say so, and I’d run it by our little boy as well to see what he thought. Well, I got the one book, but then I also received two more books directly from the author. They were all signed, with the date, and…
I haven’t done a roundup in a while. For each blog (alpha-order) I’ve selected my favorite among recent posts. 3-Way Watch Blog – Mercs in a Corporate World AMERICAblog – Condi has to force State Dept. officials to Iraq Amanda’s Engima – More great Wallpapers from WallpaperStock An und für sich – The Complication of Nature and Grace in Aquinas Arianna Huffington – Midnight in America: the Mainstreaming of the GOP’s Lunatic Fringe Atheist Revolution – Christian Extremist Links CA…
Check out photos of the lunar eclipse at The Raven’s Journey! A total eclipse of the Full Moon in Pisces, and I slept right through it… just too early in the morning for me. Here’s video from Chattanooga, TN. Post links to more photos, if you know of some.
The semaphore (four rotating disks of light) atop the Adobe tower in downtown San Jose is indeed transmitting a message. Never heard of a semaphore? There are multiple meanings. In programming, it concerns methodology for mutual exclusion (see “excluded middles” below), parallel processing, and synchronization. Predating the electrical telegraph, the semaphore was defined as an optical telegraph that conveyed information via visual signals – towers with blades, shutters, flags and so on. semaphore I wonder to what extent the Adobe…