Women, College, and Value
You know, for every dollar a man makesa woman makes 63 cents.Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents.So, with that kind of luck, it’ll be the year 3,888bef...
Month: January 2021
Young Pioneer
The other day, No. 2 Son (now 13) wanted me to explain colonial imperialism and neo-colonialism, in the context of the American Revolution and with reference to...
Ars Electronica
Zoë Keating‘s cello loops and Imogen Heap‘s witchy gloves remind me that computers can also be playful extensions of human creativity, not just mac...
Unsolicited Solicitations
Do these politicians begging for money realize that their e-mails look and feel exactly like mail fraud?
Meanwhile on the other side of the world…
Perhaps my favorite element of working overnight with folks from India, now that we are all working from home, is the small audio intrusions from my co-workersâ...
Fresh Ears
I’m reading Nietzsche at the moment, and put on Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra (1896). No. 1 Son, who had not before heard any of it, except the ...
Let us now praise famous men
Just discarded James Agee’s book 10 pages in. The topic was interesting enough, as were the prefaces, though they were a bit too self-congratulatory and overb...
Was There Some Kind of Ceremony Today?
Today, I spent my day in front of a computer, in four hours of meetings about meetings, another few writing a script and updating a spreadsheet, and then some m...
Leeway
Many folks have mocked Mr. Trump for his frequent golf outings, on the one hand because he did the same to Mr. Obama, and on the other because they think he sho...
Dear Reader
I would not have slept if I had not been up most of the previous week, but I did, willingly, after 242 pages, to prepare for today. The best laid plans, they sa...
Prepared?
A former employer spies storm clouds on the horizon and notes it is worth the exercise to review backups, disaster recovery plans, and operational resiliency. Y...
Psalm 62
1    On God alone my soul in stillness waits;  ♦from him comes my salvation.2    He alone is my rock and my salvation,  ♦my stronghold, so that ...
The Wide Wonderful Web
Someone I follow on Twitter shared Elizabeth Kingston’s discovery of sea chanty TikTok and I fell down an audio rabbit hole because TikTok has a handy fea...
Breadcrumbs
Who recommended 📚The Samurai’s Garden (1994)? I requested the book from the library and started reading it because I had found the Wikipedia page topmo...
Excuses
It is not at all possible for me to make my bed today.
The Unread
When the pages in the calendar turn, I take some time to revisit the accumulations with which I clutter my days. It’s not you; it’s me. And time.