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You've Got A Friend
Everytime I hear this song I think it'd make a good alcohol commercial. So this weekend I dug a bunch of pics up and made my own commercial: Violates a few copyrights and a couple morals, but it needed to be made.
Housing and Drugs
A couple random thoughts: The U.S. is full of folks who care deeply about their food: where it comes from, how it was grown/raised, what effects it has on health, etc. I'm not one of them, but there are plenty. Wonder how many of these folks care about where their ...
In Praise of Boredom
I watched October Sky recently, while it was a fairly standard Hollywood movie, one thing struck me: nowadays those kids would be too busy with gadgets and distractions to build rockets and excel like that. I've been thinking about the greater artists, writers, and feats of history lately, and I ...
Words To Golf AND Live By
I played golf last weekend, and did a little better than usual. Still sucked, but the wheels didn't fall off like they often do. I also just read Seven Simple Steps to Realizing Your Dreams and it struck me that last weekend when I played, I had a gameplan and ...
YZ-125 Top End Rebuild
Today I rebuilt the top-end of my 1996 YZ-125. Compresssion got awful and it wouldn't even run unless I held the throttle damn near wide open. I thought I was gonna have to ditch it in the woods at Wambaw a year ago. So today I yanked it all apart, ...
The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree
For the 3 or 4 folks out there who read this site, sorry I haven't updated in awhile. I have a couple half-posts written, but can't seem to eek 'em out. So I'll throw something out I've been kicking around lately: I'm beginning to theorize that by the time you're ...
Overnight Success
I'm wrestling these days with the "jack of all trades, master of none" idea. On the one hand, if you're interested in poetry, drag racing, architecture and antique clocks, people would say you're a Renaissance man. But you'd also have your fingers in so many pies that you'd never really ...
SuperMemo and MasterMind
Great Wired article about never forgetting anything: The failure of SuperMemo to transform learning uncannily repeats the earlier failures of cognitive psychology to influence teachers and students. Our capacity to learn is amazingly large. But optimal learning demands a kind of rational control over ourselves that does not come easily. ...
Weekly Links 1/10/2008
Some of the more useful or interesting things I've seen this week: Posterous seems like a neat service. I haven't given it a whirl yet, and I'm not sure that I will - I try to corral all the stuff I post on my homepage here, but it's a cool ...
The Problem With Schools
Why do most people seem to understand that our public school system is failing, but nothing is really being done about it? We're throwing dumptrucks full of money at it, and short of a few experimental programs here and there, not doing much else. The price of gas goes up ...
Tension
America saw some serious growth and success in the first half of the 20th century, and I've often pondered the immigrants that came here. I get the impression that the best from all over the world were drawn here like flies to honey. The best of the lower classes maybe, ...
Hollywood Hotties
Maybe this is just an excuse to put up a bunch of pictures of women I have a thing for, but I've had something on my mind lately. I miss seeing movie stars and entertainers age naturally. There's almost nobody around anymore that hasn't had work done or at least ...
Turkeyday Atonement
I'm hearing the phrase "turkeyday" alot in place of Thanksgiving. When did this start? It's about as long to spell and pronounce, so no savings there. Maybe giving thanks is outdated nowadays? *** Atonement: meh. I remember hearing all kindsa great stuff about this movie, so maybe I expected too ...
Lucky or Smart
Which is better, lucky or smart? I've often wondered how I'd fare in a war, and which would be better - lucky or smart. Maybe they're equal, or maybe neither matter at all. Might just be time and chance any way you slice it. But if you could pick: be ...
Gut vs Heart
You hear the phrases "go with your gut" or "follow your heart" a good deal, but lately I've been wondering how to tell which is which? When is something a gut reaction versus a heart reaction? Ideally, you'd be tuned in to your gut/heart/whatever and be able to make decisions ...
Store
Once in a blue moon I get an idea for a product, and then if the stars line up just right and Haley's comet comes floating by, I even turn it into reality. Behold a few that made it: Ever wanted a shirt with an obscure Willow quote on it? ...
Juking the Stats
I guess you know you're an adult when you start worrying about the GDP or how well your lawn is growing. I seem to worry about both these days. It figures that just when I start getting interested in stocks and the economy that both start tanking. Doesn't mean I ...
About
What's a "slipangle"? It' a racing term that means the difference between where your tire is pointing vs where your tire is going. I like it as a metaphor for life: the difference between where you think your going and where you're really going. About Me I'm a most-of-the-time programmer ...