Twenty years ago at the Institute, it was recommended that we read How I Raised Myself From Failure To Success In Selling. Later (much later), I found my maternal grandfather’s copy in an old foot locker of his school books. Since I finished Managing Humans the other week, I thought I might finally get around […]
I finished a consulting project yesterday that had been taking up most of my free time for the past couple of weeks. It has been nice to relax so far this weekend without that constant worry: “Isn’t there something else productive that I should be working on?” And for the first time in quite a […]
Biblical textual criticism of Winnie-the-Pooh.
Meme’d by the lovely Aelki. One can never have too many books (much like toilet paper). Number of books I own: Well, there are 220 on the two shelves pictured (not counting the books in the reflection). I have a bunch more in boxes, and five more are sitting on my desk right now. See […]
The Vatican is blasting Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code. I’m not Catholic, but I completely agree with their assessment. The book does not make a distinction between verifiable fact and rampant speculation in it’s presentation of Church history. Because of that, its near-blasphemous indictments against Christianity and Christ Himself will almost certainly confuse […]
CNN.com reports: BAY CITY, Michigan (AP) — Keeping library books too long could soon land some readers in jail. Frustrated librarians want the worst offenders to face criminal charges and up to 90 days behind bars. “We want to go after some of the people who owe us a lot of money,” said Frederick J. […]
I talk about today’s private-industry space flight and how Tom Swift did it 50 years ago.
I succumb to the Page 23 meme.
Last night I cleaned out the refrigerator (with photos), investigated Walmart’s renovations, bought a new book, and got up early this morning to try to jog.
Here’s the cover of a book I had almost forgotten about: Alfred Goes House Hunting, in which a tiny teddy bear looks for a home in the woods because the playroom is boring. The story goes that somebody gave it to my parents when they were looking for their first apartment 27 years ago, or […]
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