Madonna can't do it but I sincerely believe that Duran Duran still has the power to save the world. Thank God for Simon Le Bon!
In the course of talking to the performer I've booked for our Summer Reading Club tour, he mentioned that a colleague, Bonnie Logan, will be appearing in London, ON for a similar tour. I said that there are still quite a few people from London and area reading this blog so if he passed along […]
So I'll have an optimistic moment like yesterday's post and think that “hey, maybe the planet isn't doomed.” Then I wake up today and, while watching the Live Earth concerts, hear Madonna say “if you want to save the planet, let me see you jump!” And I'll feel sad because I know that the planet […]
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The worldwide series of concerts known as Live Earth have started today in Australia and Japan and will be moving around the world for the next 24 hours. Although not directly related to Live Earth, there are a couple relevant sites you might want to check out: Earth Charter is “a declaration of fundamental principles […]
Reddit had a link today to a column from the Wall Street Journal which attempts to explain why the young people today feel so damn entitled. Turns out the blame lies squarely at the feet of Mr. Rogers. Signs of narcissism among college students have been rising for 25 years, according to a recent study […]
I'm sort of working in reverse here. The following is the first eulogy I ever did. I had little idea what I was doing at the time but I knew that I wanted to do something unique and different to capture my grandma (who was both of those things) rather than the traditional “this person was born here, married him/her, did this for a living, died here, is survived by” paint-by-numbers type eulogy.
(Chris liked this photo I snapped of him after a 503 class so much that he asked me to send it to him for possible use in his wedding album.)It seems like a cruel joke that I'm in the midst of posting eulogies I've done for my grandparents and then I get the news that […]
Since I've got a bit of a morbid theme going, I thought I'd post another eulogy – this one was for my Grandma Hammond who passed away a few years ago.
(I mentioned a couple weeks ago that this eulogy had gone over very well and that I would post it when time allowed. A long weekend is ideal for catching up on all those loose ends and so here it is…)
When did this blog go from a wide swath of technology-related stories to “Today's Facebook news is…” But Facebook is booming – I'm finding and being found by old college friends, work colleagues and more. My mom's not on (yet) but I expect that add request any day. The strangest? I was looking at […]
