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Staving off the melancholy

30 August 2010

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Ever feel like you need a little inspiration?  A little motivation?  Here are two things that inspire me.  One, is a song that Dave posted earlier today on his Facebook profile. The music is fine, but I really love the spoken words by Nick Hornby, particularly the line about choosing to watch TV tonight: The [...]

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Quoteworthy

12 August 2010

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“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have no quarrele with him?” Blaise Pascal

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architecture

12 July 2010

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In about an hour, I’m having a lunch with a new friend of mine…he’s an architect. I’ve always been fascinated by architecture.  I see architecture as the blending of right brain and left brain capabilities – lots of math and problem-solving, but with a strong sense of ascetics as well.  It seems like a job [...]

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