I was listening yesterday to an interview with Richard Dawkins — author of The God Delusion, husband to Lalla Ward, friend to the late Douglas Adams; all three very good things in this writer’s view. I’m not sure when the interview was done, but it was before The God Delusion came out, so I’d guess,Continue reading “On Word Choices”
Monthly Archives: December 2007
On John Edwards, Viking Warrior
This morning’s Washington Post ran some excerpts from Dana Milbank’s new book, Homo Politicus: The Strange and Scary Tribes That Run Our Government. If the government is a primitive tribe — and yes, there’s some primal sociology at play in politics — then how do candidates stack up in a primitive hierarchy? (Or for theContinue reading “On John Edwards, Viking Warrior”
On the End of Netscape
Netscape, that most venerable of web browsers, has reached the end of the road. Once, it was the web browser. Eighty percent of web users used Netscape. But then, something called Internet Explorer came out, and in the First Browser War Netscape took a tumble. As of February 1st, 2008, AOL will be pulling theContinue reading “On the End of Netscape”
On BrickJournal
I love LEGO. No surprise there. Others decorate their cubicles at work with action figures. I have LEGO TIE-Fighters. If I could figure out a way of getting the USS Constellation to work safely, I’d decorate my cubicle with that, too. (Maybe in the spring, when I have a new cubicle on the fourth floor.Continue reading “On BrickJournal”
On iPhone Pondering
Not having used — or even seen, for that matter — Apple’s iPhone, the post that follows may be well be completely uninformed and ignorant. You have been warned. 😉 I know, roughly, what the size of an iPhone is. And roughly the size of the screen, too. How is the iPhone something you’d wantContinue reading “On iPhone Pondering”
On Movie Sequel Musings
Yesterday some reader out there punched four words into Google, and to this website she — or possibly he — came. What information might that nameless reader have wanted to know about? “Across the Universe sequel.” I mostly enjoyed Across the Universe. I picked up the two-disc soundtrack, and I’m looking forward to the DVDContinue reading “On Movie Sequel Musings”
On Beatles Pedantry
I have seven different versions of the song “Let It Be” on my hard drive. And for some reason I’ve been comparing the George Harrison guitar solo in all seven versions. Harrison, at various times, recorded new guitar solos for the song, as the whole project was worked on by various producers between January 1969Continue reading “On Beatles Pedantry”
On the Founding Fathers
Sunday’s Washington Post ran an interesting editorial by historian Joseph Ellis, author of numerous books on the Founding Fathers, with the headline, “What Would George Do?” The question Ellis asks — how would the Founding Fathers, like Washington and Jefferson, react to the problems facing the nation today, like Iraq, the media, and so forth?Continue reading “On the Founding Fathers”
On Christmas Morning Philosophy
So this is Christmas And what have you done Another year over A new one just begun And so this is Christmas I hope you have fun The near and the dear ones The old and the young A merry merry Christmas And a happy New Year Let’s hope it’s a good one Without anyContinue reading “On Christmas Morning Philosophy”
On Mitt Romney’s Anti-Endorsement
Newspapers have been endorsing candidates at all levels of the political process for years. People running for President, for instance, covet the endorsements of newspapers, both in the general election and the primaries. I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen anything quite like this, before, though. The Concord Monitor, in Concord, New Hampshire, ran anContinue reading “On Mitt Romney’s Anti-Endorsement”