The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, is a literary fiction about a man and his son eking out an existence sometime after Armageddon. Yes, folks, this was an Oprah book not too long ago, but I avoided it at the time. I had a feeling it would dark and somewhat dismal and I didn’t think I [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2007
Oct 26
Gleaning the Net
Here is a collection of links I’ve enjoyed this week. I hope you enjoy them as well.
· The Orange Box – Portal
Portal™, coming in the Fall of 2007, is a new single player game available for the PC, as well as the Xbox® 360 and Playstation® 3 console systems. The game is designed to [...]
Oct 19
Money and Happiness
Long, but well worth the read. I’ve tried to summarize the best points here.
In a typical survey people are asked to rank their sense of well-being or happiness on a scale of 1 to 7, where 1 means “not at all satisfied with my life” and 7 means “completely satisfied.” Of the American multimillionaires who [...]
Oct 18
Photos Not Taken
Unphotographable is a catalog of exceptional mistakes. Photos never taken that weren’t meant to be forgotten. Opportunities missed. Simple failures. Occasions when I wished I’d taken the picture, or not forgotten the camera, or had been brave enough to click the shutter.
And more…
In October 2004, I traveled to Ethiopia for a two-week trip. I’d been [...]
