I enjoy good conversation and a good beer or two... "Beer is far more than a drink, it is a token that a man can move his limbs and stretch in safety."
- Erich Remarque
I’ve been looking at the Great Courses lecture series from The Teaching Company for quite some time and finally found some great titles at the King County Library.
I’m currently listening to Great Battles of the Ancient World with Professor Garrett Fagan of Penn State. Really interesting stuff with great perspectives. If you have [...]
You can set up alerts in Google to automatically notify you when news stories (or other content) appear on the internet. This is great if you want to stay on top of specific topics but don’t want to manually look for the stuff every day. If nothing new is available, you won’t be notified. Otherwise [...]
Although I suppose I shouldn’t be, I am continually amazed by the depth and breadth of high quality learning material that is available for free online.
Let me take a step backwards. One of my favorite (and as usual, cancelled) television shows was American Gothic. This quirky, superbly written CBS series was created by [...]
You never know when it will be your last post. If this was my last post, there are some things I would want to say - especially to my kids.
Please, learn from others’ mistakes. That includes me. That’s why I’m writing this.
Despite all temptation, *never* think that you know it all. You might know a [...]
Rather than bringing to mind a utopian, alternative energy reality, Cyclecide’s bicycle circus at Bumbershoot inspired in me post-apocalyptic visions of Bartertown or Piers Anthony’s Battle Circle series. Not that that’s a bad thing. Those worlds have long been a part of my creative conscious.
Cyclecide creates familiar carnival rides in human powered form. [...]