Category: Personal

And thank you Suw!

As if I didn't have enough ways to procrastinate already.

The last week has been one for quiet time with family. We’d be counting blessings in any case but the events on the other side of the world bring that home all the more forcefully. Obviously, we’ll be adding to our list of charitable donations through one of the many organizations
organizing and providing relief efforts.

For all of you, I hope 2005 brings you closer to your own goals whatever they might be. Back to more vigorous blogging soon.

I’m off to a few days R&R. The picture is from our trip to Alaska this last summer. Couldn’t pass on the chance to stand on a glacier.

A good holiday season to all of you in whatever flavor suits you.

The confluence of Tivo, the blogosphere, and my otherwise busy schedule have now netted me 4 hours of found time since I can now delete the episodes that I recorded safe in the knowledge that they have so little connection to the the story or the author I enjoyed years ago. Make it three and a half hours, after accounting for the time I did enjoy reading LeGuin’s comments.

Ursula K. Le Guin
on the television version of her Earthsea books: “When I looked over the script, I realized the producers had no understanding of what the books are about and no interest in finding out. All they intended was to use the name Earthsea, and some of the scenes from the books, in a generic McMagic movie with a meaningless plot based on sex and violence

[EdCone.com]

Finally got a chance to look at this one from two weeks ago. Worth thinking about on multiple levels, not just on the question of why this should somehow not be fit to televize. A very good friend of mine from b-school days is very involved with UCC. I think I need to follow up
with her to get some more of the story.

The forbidden United Church of Christ ad.. Here is the television ad the networks refuse to play.
It is more than worth 30 seconds of your time. It’s message: No matter who you are, you are welcome here, at the UNITED Church of Christ.

And oh, uh, what you will see at the web site is a very powerful demonstration of how the Internet can be an alternative way to get a message out..

After all, this ad is near the top on Daypop..and I’m hoping it rises..
[Jim Moore’s cybernetics, politics, emergence, etc.]

Fortunately, I have my Etymotic ER-6 earphones. I’ve been using them with my iPod for the past year and if the number of flight attendants who have to wave their hands at me to get my
attention is any indication, cell phones in flight shouldn’t prove to be too much of an issue.

Remind Me to Stop Flying.
Cell phones in the air are inevitable: Interesting piece from the New York Times running through the last few months of tests and proposals on putting cellular picocell stations in planes and allowing cell phone use on a broader basis. The highly quoted Paul Saffo wins the prize for summarizing the problem: “The last thing I want is a bunch of jabbering
business geeks,” said Paul Saffo, a technology industry consultant who travels 200,000 miles a year on United Airlines and said that flying was his only escape from e-mail and phone calls. “The only quiet time I get is when I fly. It’s my meditation time.”… [Wi-Fi Networking News]

Another fascinating post from Theresa Nielsen Hayden. Very thought provoking.

Real emergency preparedness. A jump bag or go bag is a pre-stocked fanny pack, backpack, etc., which you keep next to your front… [Making Light]