8 May 07
Another BFO (Blinding Flash of the Obvious) today: When I come home tired, cook a meal, and realize that I don’t feel like I have any energy to write… …I can choose to write anyway.
7 May 07
As I re-read the first chapter of Covey’s The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People today, I experienced another blinding flash of the obvious. Covey wrote about the “P/PC Balance.” “P” stands for Productivity, and “PC” for Productive Capacity. He encourages finding time for both work and your capacity to work. I realized that I […]
6 May 07
I seem to be mostly recovered now. I’ve noticed a fair amount of extended blog activity about the Law of Attraction. If you haven’t heard of it, to quote Wikipedia, “‘Our thinking creates our reality.’ In short, if one’s consciousness is in tune with the ‘whole,’ creation becomes a resource from which we can manifest […]
3 May 07
Ha! From the 1934 Fresno Bee: Gigantic Robots, Controlled by Wireless, to Fight Our Battles. If only. (Not a Photoshop contest; this is from Paleo-Future, a site about early visions of the future.)
30 Apr 07
Still sick. But I can’t complain; my garden is in full flush, I have a good job with fun co-workers, and I’m blessed with a huge amount of entertainment. It’s worth the occasional cold.
29 Apr 07
Last week’s trip seems to have given me a touch of…something. I won’t describe the grotesque details, but safe to say I am sick. I hope it won’t last; I want to go to work tomorrow. I comforted myself by watching Versus, a movie by the live-action Japanese director I saw last weekend, Ryuhei Kitamura. […]
28 Apr 07
And I’m back. The trip was precisely fine: informative and uneventful. I didn’t have a great time—I never like changes to my comfortable life, and yes that worries me on occasion—but nothing remotely bad happened. ‘Twas strange, though, being in a company town. Cedar Rapids is mixed zoning, strip malls glaring at industrial plants that […]
22 Apr 07
I’ll be travelling on business this week, so expect few updates to this site. To completely change the subject, if you ever get the chance to watch the Taiwanese film The Puppetmaster, be prepared for an excruciating documentary style in which every shot lasts, on average, three minutes. And in which the theme appears to […]
21 Apr 07
I’m back from an anime and manga panel discussion at the Smithsonian. I sat literally a few feet away from Monkey Punch (creator of Lupin III), Mitsuhisa Ishikawa (president of Production I.G.), and Ryuhei Kitamura (live-action movie director). A few random notes: In one month in 2007, 250 manga magazines are published in Japan, and […]
20 Apr 07
Some of you may remember the cooking show that I made and posted on YouTube last winter. I’ve reposted the website, where you can browse and watch the videos.