Temporary Loss of Northitude: In Which I Wax Photographic About Barrow. Here are some great pictures from Barrow, Alaska, where I have always wanted to go but have never gone. Check out his “chalet.” I would not mind living there for a while. Is there room for an art studio, or do I have to [...]
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Temporary Loss of Northitude: In Which I Wax Photographic About Barrow
Posted in Cool People on May 19, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Tribute to Earl Nightingale
Posted in Business, Cool People, tagged Earl Nightingale, Motivational Speaker, Success on May 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I recently bought the Nightingale-Conant program The Essence of Success, a collection of 20 CDs of Earl Nightingale recordings, dating back to the 1950s. In the mid to late 1980s I listened to Earl’s programs on tapes. I subscribed to his program Insight, a monthly magazine on tapes. The first half of the cassette had [...]
Men with Wild Beards
Posted in Cool People, Nature, tagged Beards, Devin, Edward Abbey on April 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Edward Abbey, the late and famous radical nature advocate, in the late 1980ies. Devin in 2012. Coincidence? .
Edward Abbey Doesn’t Sugarcoat
Posted in Cool People, Crack-Ups, Hikes, Nature on April 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I am reading Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey, first published in 1968. Abbey tells of his time as a ranger in the Arches National Park in Southern Utah in the 1960ies. One chapter is dedicated to water and how a desperate hiker can find it. There is a myth about getting water out of a [...]
Darth Vader Addresses U.S. Congress
Posted in Cool People, Political, tagged bobby rush on March 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Or is it congressman Bobby Rush from Illinois?
Working from Home
Posted in Cool People on March 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Papua New Guinea
Posted in Cool People, Travels on March 3, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Fascinating accounts from a very far away world.
Book Review: Steve Jobs – by Walter Isaacson
Posted in Books, Business, Cool People, Technology on February 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Reading Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs was inspiring and motivating on many levels. Out of 1142 Amazon reviews as of today, 690 are five stars, and 55 have one star. Half of the reviews with one star are off the mark. They don’t even review the book, but they rant about Jobs or Apple in some [...]
My Favorite Tweater – Lunatic Carl
Posted in Cool People, Travels, tagged carl hoffman, travels on February 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Lunatic Carl is my favorite tweater. I always enjoy his posts tremendously. His real name is Carl Hoffman, and he wrote the book the Lunatic Express, which I reviewed here. Carl travels to these exotic places and his posts captivate me. My thoughts turn inward and my soul soars as I put myself into his position [...]
Melinda Gates Speaks on Birth Control
Posted in Commentaries, Cool People, tagged Contraception, Melinda Gates on April 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
After months and months of listening to American politicians and pundits droning on about their shallow ideological opinions into birth control and people’s right to choose, mostly from an American hinterland fundamentalist point of view, it was refreshing to hear Melinda Gates at a TED talk speaking on the subject from a global perspective. No nonsense, full [...]
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