December 31
I started 2006 with a list from 2005: summing up the year, and such. Maybe it should be something of a year-end-blogging tradition: a cap to the “blog every day for a month” exercise. However it shapes up, I’ll keep (or massage) the original questions and add one of my own [...]

Perhaps it’s a little abstract… but then that’s the point.
Everyone with whom I have had more than five minutes worth of conversation these days wants to know: “What did you enjoy most about Europe?” — and I stumble through the fragmented and chaotic answer that, simply, there was just so much to see and so [...]

Life is odd, I suppose. And it’s very difficult to not sound too cliché whilst still being honest and reflective on the interesting time in which we live. Case in point: Saturday morning I woke up around 6 AM to a beeping alarm and the faintest glimmer of sunlight through the attic [...]

Old novels fall off packed shelves.
I fell asleep while reading some old Asimov last night. I fell asleep in the big chair in the living room, wrapped in a comfortable blanket. I fell asleep while watching Spike TV after 10 cups of coffee and you’re still not here. That prelude of a delussional [...]

What did you do in 2005 that you’d never done before?
Business Taxes. Yup. Filed a good ol’ T2 for Starkware.
Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Resolution: Avoiding the Walmart — and I didn’t even go in their parking lot in ‘05!
This year, of course. I’ll [...]

Inspiration seems to come too slowly these days. I mean, I have a few ideas. But only a few, and that’s all they seem to be right now: lingering concepts that need some feet to carry them into the world.
And then come the metaphors.
Things just need to coalesce into [...]

There’s something about the future of things. The clouds are blowing across the Western sky tonight. A cool breeze is pushing their chill into the city and there is a scent of rain.
I’ve been adrift on the future, as of late. It’s a tough place to be, stranded just a few seconds [...]

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
- Sir Francis Bacon

If I were certain about anything, I’d be boring, I suppose. I imagine it has something to do with the argument that suggests we [...]

I think part of this issue is around defining who I am. It’s a development thing. A blogging-maturity. What is the point of doing something if it has no point?
I’d like to think there is something more to this than a chaotic collection of garbled thoughts. I took that break a [...]

I’ve been tinkering with words a lot lately, spinning illusions out of nonsensical ideas.
I’ve been shaping concepts around patterns that make no sense, editing bits of style and grammar into the delicate whisps of their naked elements.
I’ve been venting my creative brain core with amusing pleasures of word and wit and whimsy, purging ideas [...]

Scribble fly knows not his boundaries. Hat trick. Alas.
I’m step-casting tonight, simply, only, completely basically because the air becons me to be outside, but I lack the post-party motivation to go further than my front step.
Words are bubbling at the surface these days. It’s a tough metaphor to fill, usually. It’s [...]

I had not expected to do so this soon, but I opened up the first book of the Requiem for Homo Sapiens the other day, turned to page one, and started reading. I had originally expected to let it dwell for a while, festering like a pot of rich, meaty stew blending the flavours [...]