Those imagined chthonic forces
Saturday, February 6th, 2010From a description of a nightmare, a querying of the difference between scale and measure, and why losing the latter is not a good idea.
From a description of a nightmare, a querying of the difference between scale and measure, and why losing the latter is not a good idea.
Bill Bishop’s The Big Sort and Archie Bunker’s inability to avoid rubbing up against people explored as an issue of urban form and domestic architecture.
A strange semi-waking dream amidst cacophonous caterwauling offers a mystery: why did the dog bark?
If I type “troll” into my browser, I’m immediately taken to Wikipedia’s page on Troll (Internet). That’s appropriate, since it was internet trolls – those icky anonymous assassins – I was thinking of when I decided to write about “my” ugly reader. Usually, when I post, I imagine a beautiful reader – someone like myself: […]
Advice on getting organized isn’t hard to find these days – it seems every other person has clutteritis and needs a feng shui intervention. I’m not immune to the lure of the organized life either: were I able to arrive at an oasis of oversight, it would feel like coming to my true home. … […]
Although I had planned some longer blog posts about the interaction of the natural and the social worlds, how they collide and also drain away from one another specifically here in Victoria BC, I need to blog first about an intriguing book I’m currently reading: A Farewell to Alms by Gregory Clark. I was initially […]
I watched Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona recently. It was enjoyable and fun to watch – to a point. It had all the classic hallmarks of a Woody Allen story, as it revolved around the American (and now also European) upper-middle-class set – which made it watchable, but also made it annoying. The acting was […]
Replying to a couple of comments on Fred Wilson, reblogging here: Good points. In your blog you do, however, focus in on a specific area (as per your blog’s title, a VC). That makes it all hang together, and focuses your insights. Others might think out loud, but it’s unfocused (although in the aggregate, it […]
The other day Philip Greenspun wrote a provocative (that is, a typically iconoclastic) article, Universities and Economic Growth. It’s well-worth reading, so click through and take a look. (h/t @KathySierra) I just want to use a small passage in that piece as a jumping off point for another observation that’s completely unrelated to Phil’s agenda. […]
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