Posted in Art and Design, Places on Mar 31st, 2004 9 Comments »
A few years ago my wife Anne and I went to Japan to visit friends. Having taken a fair amount of Japanese art history in school and having been greatly influenced by Japanese ceramics, I felt that I had a pretty good sense of Japanese design.
One of the things that people told me who had [...]
Posted in Movies, Music on Mar 31st, 2004 17 Comments »
The Commitments is about the birth of a “soul” band in Northern Ireland. It is one of our all time favorite movies. The characters are wonderful, the music is fantastic (and really played, not lip synched) and the story is uplifting.
The Amazon link below is to a new edition of the DVD which went out [...]
Posted in Ideas on Mar 31st, 2004 No Comments »
“The most awesome learning feat on this planet - a child’s acquisition of spoken language - occurs in the absence of any formal instruction.”
George Leonard
Posted in Birds on Mar 29th, 2004 No Comments »
Each year a pair of ducks come to our small pond to mate. They arrived this morning although we did not see them land. And, this year they are a different pair, a pair of wood ducks which are a bit more unusual than mallards. They spend part of each day on our pond, [...]
Posted in Our Place on Mar 29th, 2004 1 Comment »
There is an “extra” on the DVD of the movie Bend It Like Beckham where the director, Gurinder Chadha, cooks aloo gobi with her mother and her aunt looking on and commenting. This short piece is worth watching even if you never plan to cook this dish, just to catch the wonderful mother, daughter, aunt [...]
Posted in Tech Stuff on Mar 27th, 2004 3 Comments »
SmartWraps are small plastic “things” that you can wrap things like headphone cords around to shorten them. Ingenious. Not sure how to order or buy yet but I’m working on it.
“Headphone cord management.” I love it.
Posted in Places on Mar 27th, 2004 No Comments »
I was in San Francisco a few years ago, walking along Fisherman’s Warf on my way to Lark in the Morning (a drum shop) and saw this sign. Maybe it’s old but I’d never seen it before and I loved it. I did resist contributing though.
Posted in Tech Stuff on Mar 27th, 2004 No Comments »
Try typing your name in Googlism.com. Pretty intresting.
Posted in Ideas on Mar 25th, 2004 No Comments »
“I never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
Mark Twain
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Mar 25th, 2004 2 Comments »
If it weren’t raining out at the moment I’d be doing this. All of our fruit trees need to be pruned and this one in partricular looks even worse than this (taken 3 years ago).
Posted in Humor, Politics on Mar 25th, 2004 5 Comments »
This is a short poem made up entirely of actual quotations from George W. Bush. These have been arranged, only for aesthetic purposes, by Washington Post writer, Richard Thompson. A wonderful Haiku poem like this is too good not to share.
Make The Pie Higher
I think we all agree, the past is over.
This is still a [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Mar 24th, 2004 2 Comments »
This tree just couldn’t resist looking for more dirt to set its roots into. Amazing how something that grows this slowly will find a way.
Posted in Movies on Mar 24th, 2004 No Comments »
This movie is worth watching just for the character acting which is superb. Ken Lonergan wrote, directed, and acted in it. Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo play the leads with Matthew Broderick in an amazing supporting role. We’ve watched this movie numerous times and none of it gets old.
Director: Kenneth Lonergan
Cast: Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, [...]
Posted in Humor on Mar 23rd, 2004 No Comments »
Flame Warriors is a collection of drawings and descriptions of online personaes. It’s quite funny and amazingly right on the money. It has become popular enough so the guy is selling merchandise. Amazing.
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Mar 23rd, 2004 No Comments »
This was the first “modern” digital photograph I ever took. This old stump is on Prospect Mountain in Litchfield, Connecticut. The picture was taken with an Olympus C2020 on automatic.
Posted in Politics on Mar 23rd, 2004 No Comments »
Pandagon, a weblog from Ezra Klein has this quote from a Time magazine article:
“Administration sources tell TIME that employees at the Department of Homeland Security have been asked to keep their eyes open for opportunities to pose the President in settings that might highlight the Administration’s efforts to make the nation safer. The goal, they [...]
Posted in Humor on Mar 23rd, 2004 1 Comment »
A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a woman below. He descended a bit more and shouted, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”
The woman below replied, “You’re in [...]
Posted in Reading on Mar 23rd, 2004 No Comments »
I just finished reading Under The Banner of Heaven, the newest book by Jon Krakauer, the author of Into Thin Air and Into the Wild, among a few others.
I feel a bit weird saying this about a best selling author but Krakauer is not a great writer but he chooses great subject matter and tells [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Mar 23rd, 2004 2 Comments »
Easy to see how people made paper and skins for boats out of this stuff. The interesting question is, what evolutionary or functional value does it have for the tree?
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Mar 22nd, 2004 No Comments »
This maple is on Prospect Mountain in Litchfield, Connecticut. The heavy “arms” of this group of maples reminded a friend and I of grandma arms.
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