Grinding Out New Year Resolutions
The Boston subway system forms a fitting metaphor for my annual resolutioning activities
Category: About human behaviors
Note from Tim Egan’s “A Pilgrimage to Eternity”
UPDATE: My full review can be found on goodreads.com at http://bit.ly/2RcstVw . I’m slowly working through “A Pilgrimage to Eternity – From Canterbury to Rome in Search of Faith” by Timothy Egan. In chapter 8, “The...
Random Thoughts on Stupidity
Clouds of Stupidity – A Short Poem Ignorance in abundance My mind struggles with ambiguity An occasional bolt encompasses a few disparate ideas Just as suddenly, the clouds of stupidity reobscures the truth. ———- Hanlon’s Razor…...
From what is humanity defined? Are we about to be deprecated?
Is humanity defined by what it has accomplished? Or rather, from what is out of it’s grasp? Regardless of how humanity began, whether through divine intervention or through the chance combinatorics of elementary particles in the...
Should we trust robots? Do you trust your cat?
Every night, Fred, my pet cat of going on four years now, curls up at the foot of my bed, purrs, and sleeps soundly. In the morning, he wakes me for his breakfast with irresistible insistence....
Texting vs Talking
Was reading an article recently about dialog communications and how texting has replaced talking in a lot of modern communication. (http://alistapart.com/article/conversational-design) It had an interesting diagram that displayed a time line of human communication going back...
Life, one anecdote involving a small group of bored high school kids
One spring weekend, a small group of three or four teenage boys hatched some plan to drive to a neighboring town, meet up with an acquaintance which purportedly had free tickets to a movie. As so...