LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! STEP RIGHT UP!

SIDESHOW BARKER: STEP RIGHT UP, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!  Prepare to be astounded when you witness an amazing achievement of the human senses!  The Sideshow is proud to bring you kind, generous and curious people the story of an infant boy raised in the animal kingdom,  his incredible adaptation to the skills his cetaceous adoptive family […]

Ash Wed’s.+MardiGras Magical Celebration

HEART THIS BLOG LIKE YOU WOULD WANT LIL PUGGLING TO KEEP SHAKEN THAT THANG!!

TED TALKS 10

TED TALKS 10 William McDonough: The wisdom of designing Cradle to Cradle Janine Benyus: 12 sustainable design ideas from nature Stew: “Black Men Ski” Steven Johnson: A guided tour of the Ghost Map Jeff Hawkins: Brain science is about to fundamentally change computing Tierney Thys: Swim with giant sunfish in the open ocean John Doerr: […]

a reputation apparently…

went across the street to see a band I’d never seen before…somebody asked me if I was gonna sing with ’em…that feels kinda weird, but kinda good too…they certainly played a variety of songs, I’ll give ’em that…the sound was not so great but that’s the room and a substitute sound man…They were OK, until […]

TED TALKS 9

TED TALKS 9 Nora York: “What I Want” Paul Bennett: Design is in the details Rives: A mockingbird remix of TED2006 Seth Godin: Sliced bread and other marketing delights Sheila Patek: Measuring the fastest animal on earth Susan Savage-Rumbaugh: Apes that write, start fires and play Pac-Man Thom Mayne: Architecture is a new way to […]

The Gaian Dragon I Ching Calendar : Month of Return

Return to Innocence – Enigma The Gaian Dragon I Ching Calendar Return The Beginning, and the End are One Observe and consider patterns. Really care about people, and your projects. Renounce selfish motivations. Encompass Opposition. Seek a Meeting of the minds. Do not be an Obstruction. Be Receptive. Make the Approach. Deal with Adversity. Shake […]

TED TALKS 8

TED TALKS 8 Frans Lanting: A lyrical view of life on Earth Sergey Brin and Larry Page: Inside the Google machine Golan Levin: The truly soft side of software James Watson: The double helix and today’s DNA mysteries Jane Goodall: What separates us from the apes? Jeff Bezos: After the gold rush, there’s innovation ahead […]

musical courage, etc.

went to a pair of open mics last night…a good night for the most part…a friend of mine had some fairly innaresting song choices at the first one, kinda surprised how adamant he was about ’em…but we did OK…then we went to another o.m. and he did POKERFACE–the arrangement was borrowed, but still quite radical…nobody […]

One Fat Anecdote

As I’ve said before, I’ve gained a lot of weight in the last few years.  Most of my wardrobe comes from when I was about 40 pounds lighter, so it doesn’t fit all that well. In particular, many of my shirts no longer cover the lower half of my belly. Unfortunately, most of the “XL” […]

it could only happen to me

in recent weeks I’ve become infatuated with a certain woman…dunno why I hadn’t paid much attention to her before…she is a Facebook friend and quite possibly a real one as well…there has been some two way flirting, but not much…I’ve always seen her with someone, I assumed they were married…they are not…how did I find […]