From the monthly archives:

February 2009

The more things change

February 7, 2009

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Often we hear the phrase, the more things change the more they stay the same.  To challenge that notion, I offer the following account from Pausanius on the practice to learn the future at the oracle at Trophonius.  Not quite your typical Saturday at the strip mall.
“After this he is taken by the [...]

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Lost Senior Partner

February 7, 2009

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Dream: It’s early on a Saturday morning and I’m standing outside my car along a park in a city.  A woman recognizes me and comes over.  What are you doing here at this hour?  I explain that one of my firms partners tends to tie one on each Friday night and they send [...]

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Elements of Theatre: Suspense/Surprise

February 6, 2009

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Playing this afternoon, I began to wonder just how few tricks there really are for the stage when you boil down the elements to the bare bones. The element of suspense and/or surprise certainly remains a core building block.

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Because you can’t see it all

February 6, 2009

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We are planning a journey into the Big Apple for my son’s seventh birthday in a couple of weeks.  He wishes to return to what he calls the Great Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and also wants to go to the place that has the knights.  So this will be his first trip [...]

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The Fever Dreams…

February 5, 2009

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I had quite a few dream images while ill.  These stuck.
1.  A man comes into my grandparents house and says they will be leaving now.  He holds my grandfathers walking stick.  I get up and grab the stick saying your free to go but you can’t have that.
2. My twitter [...]

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Keeping it Simple

February 5, 2009

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Sometimes when there has been a definitive break you want to hit the ground running so that it seems one has not missed a beat.
Not this time.  This re-emergence into the magnificent potential that unfolds across these platforms will be taken with the luxury of any painless yawn.  A simple pleasure [...]

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Super Bowl Spinal Tap

February 2, 2009

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Probably won’t surprise my readers to find out that the Super Bowl isn’t a must see in my book.  I’m hanging with the fringe in that regard, but sometimes the game has it’s own vortex that draws you in unexpectedly.  So after three days of struggling with a variety of [...]

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Fever Dream

February 1, 2009

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Dream:  In a restless delirium due to fever, kept seeing the Wordpress dashboard and messages being sent to developer Matt Mullenweg. Unable to add any message of my own as the situation keeps replaying itself, perhaps a dozen times.
Amplification:
The current bout of illness has really taken me to the mat [...]

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