Wednesday, September 22, 2010
I’m trying to build a time machine to get back to the present, but I’m all out of fluxcapacitor. It’s a boring place to be, to know the future, but the anticipation of surprise, is what kept ninjas alive. Here’s some tips on forecasting the future: Few things that will try to derail and cloud […]
Sunday, September 19, 2010
The Nashville air was filled with country music and the extremely segregated feel of the city made me uncomfortable. Cowboy hats were adorned by the patrons of the Coyote Ugly saloon and line-dancing is still more popular than ass-grinding, both which I’m clueless how to do. The gem that I stumbled upon was the Hatch […]
Friday, September 10, 2010
They wanted me to read to them. The book, carefully chosen, was about Oliver the Elephant who wanted to grow up and be a dancing circus elephant. So I asked the kids what they wanted to be when they grew up. I had just read the page about the girl who wanted to be cowgirl […]
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
College spreads your wings and then shoves you out of the nest into the working-world. You think you’re ready, so you enthusiastically pump your fists into the air, hum “I believe I can fly!”, and plummet towards the ground of the professional world. When you jump, you actually DO believe that you can fly. This […]
Saturday, August 28, 2010
When Buckminster Fuller was 32 he started the practice of consciously choosing every word he used. The deliberate analysis of each word seemed to free him from the cultural boundaries created by the limitations of language. It allowed him to rethink and reanalyze common words and change it’s use to effectively communicate his ideas. If […]
When I was 14, I woke one one morning and decided to live a 100 more years. Since I’ve already decided my year-of-death, deciding on the length of my career was even easier. I’m designing until I’m 85 years old, that gives me a total of 65 years of design time, 10 of which I’ve […]
