We’ve been here before. I’m a bit of a sucker for the pop-culture and philosophy book series, and recently added another two volumes to my collection, a collection that now counts as a “Collection” because it contains seven volumes. For those unfamiliar, there are now a couple publishers who now regularly put out [...]

It is why I continue. You don’t need to understand much more than that. There is method to this madness that has encapsulated my steps as I walk another stretch on this strange adventure. There is purpose here, and you can sit back an observe without feeling anything awful such as guilt [...]

I was listening to the latest DNTO podcast yesterday on my homeward commute and the topic happened to be, in paraphrase, the ‘origin of good ideas.’ In other words, those great little imagination constructs that are the seeds of incredible things… from whence do they come?
The aforementioned programme alluded to this too, but as [...]

funkypig: The art that you seek is in the illusion of something great.
8r4d: Prophetic. What the frak are you talking about?
funkypig: Art. Illusion. It sounds impressive, no?
8r4d: No.
funkypig: I thought I should say something. I’m supposed to be that nagging voice in your head. I’m supposed to be that glimmer of motivation [...]

Back in September I set for myself a few physical fitness slash lifestyle goals with a juicy reward playing the role of ‘carrot’ as a motivational factor to push the whole get-in-shape and eat-better masochistic agenda I implemented around the same time. Six months on I would qualitatively rate my results as a pass, though [...]

1) For those who are confused, this is a photo-per-day effort, and NOT a blog-post-per-day effort. As much as I know you enjoy reading my ramblings on a daily basis, logistically it ain’t gonna happen. Deal.
2) I finished reading JPod this weekend and thought I would catch up on the television version last night. [...]

December 31
Well, this is it. The last day in December, and with thirty successful entries behind me it’s time to look way back. This is New Years Eve, and one of the things about running a blog for over half a decade is that eventually things become habitual — repeatable — traditional, even. [...]

December 15
We’re half way through December and, as luck would have it, I’m on holidays. That’s right, from start to end, I’m on day one of an eighteen day break from all things work. So, what’s the plan?

Day 15: Mom’s cooking is actually quite good. When she can finally taste the shortbread, she’ll see [...]

December 12
If you don’t think contemplation on a new lens is appropriate topic for this blog, you haven’t been reading me long enough. Recently, every single one of those pretty pictures you see posted here comes through one of my three lenses. And, alas, the more one works with better-than-average, (but still below-pro) [...]

I had a baby dream last night. It was a confused mess of a dream, as dreams often are, and involved odd bits of rushing to the hospital, trying to call people who should be called, wondering how things moved so fast — then so slow — then being caught up in irrelevancies and [...]

I was thumbing through some odd links this morning, and came across an interesting set of articles on parenting and fatherhood. Since it my last non-dad father’s day coming up this weekend — the last in which I’ll be simply a son, and not a dad myself — I thought this might be interesting [...]

Odd jumbles of random events in one’s life often result in the painful culmination of something called self-realization.
We all do it, you know. We are bred into this culture of self-focused emotions where rather than express things to each other we bundle them up and “teach people lessons” by subtle and secret means [...]