BurningbirdJust writing
My brother asked me what I wanted to keep of my father’s and I answered without hesitation, his cane. Upon further reflection, I also asked for his books, and I’ll borrow the photos long enough to make digital copies. I bought Dad the cane years ago when he starting slowing up a bit, at the […]
One last post for the evening, and this features one of my more favorite passages of Kierkegaard, from On Authority and Revelation: The book on Adler. All [speculative, tendentious] premise-authors, whatever their relative differences may be, have one thing in common: they all have a purpose, they all wish to produce an effect, they all wish that […]
On the bathroom wall at Shaw Nature Reserve, I saw a sign with these words: “Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Joi Ito points to an article by a reporter talking about the untrustworthy nature of Wikipedia. It would seem that a school librarian wrote to this reporter saying, that Wikipedia is …not an authoritative source. The librarian, Susan Stagnitta then continues: “Anyone can change the content of an article in the Wikipedia, and there […]
Now that the book deal I had spent four month wrangling over has fallen through, I pulled the about page until I can figure out what it will say. (Oh, did you miss that particular rant? You’ve got to move quick in the Burningbird world, or you’ll miss the good stuff. You can, however, still […]