Posted in What I'm Reading on 03. May, 2010
I read this article about dealing with a difficult mother awhile ago and it keeps sticking with me (not because it has anything to do with my own mother…really Mama…love you, mean it!) but just the conundrums of dealing with anyone we care about…friends, relatives, significant others…and what’s most important. Mainly it’s just a beautiful [...]
Posted in What I'm Reading on 03. May, 2010
I have been inexcusably absent from my blog lately and I owe a better post than this. I started this blog with a goal to write at least once a week, and that’s still my goal, but life gets complicated sometimes. The best laid plans of mice and men…
I just attended a big Diversity Summit [...]
Posted in Blog on 11. Apr, 2010
I was talking to my Dad today and he was telling me about going to his Citadel Alumni luncheon and hearing one of the Battalion commanders, a female cadet, give a talk. He said that she started out her talk by describing how she had never even considered going to the Citadel even though her [...]
Posted in Blog on 05. Apr, 2010
It’s April, which means semi-annual weigh-in month for those of us in the Coast Guard. I’m blessed with good genes and athletic ability, so this has never been something I had to worry about, but the military’s obsession over weight continues to bug me. This week the New York Times had an article on how [...]
Posted in What I'm Watching on 27. Mar, 2010
I’ve been exploring a new blog I discovered called metacool. It really captures some of the things I hoped to explore with this blog. The author, Deigo Rodriguez, is a real gearhead and loves racing and cars, which is a neat twist and has really raised my appreciation of the sport and of the design [...]
Posted in Blog on 14. Mar, 2010
I spent the better part of yesterday drawing on the computer. I couldn’t have been happier. The type of drawing I do, on Adobe Illustrator, drives most designers and artists nuts. It takes buckets of patience. I love it. The helicopter above was handdrawn by me on Illustrator and probably took 4-5 hours (spaced out [...]
Posted in What I'm Reading on 11. Mar, 2010
The New York Times Magazine has been outdoing itself these last couple of weeks. This past weekend’s magazine had an article entitled Building a Better Teacher all about whether or not good teachers can be created or if there are just people who are good at it and people who aren’t.
I saw a lot of [...]
Posted in What I'm Reading on 08. Mar, 2010
I apologize for being a bit absent from the blog recently. I was in Florida at a conference which I will hopefully have an opportunity to blog about soon. First I wanted to write about an article from last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine called “Depression’s Upside.” The whole article is interesting, but the part [...]
Posted in Blog on 01. Mar, 2010
The Beautiful Math of Coral
I wanted to share one of my favorite TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) videos from www.ted.com.
I love this video for several different reasons. The first is that it shows how complicated problems in a field are often solved in places other than that field. When she asks mathematicians why they didn’t [...]
Posted in Blog on 19. Feb, 2010
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I caught this interview with Malcolm Nance about his new book An End To Al-Qaeda which I ordered (the Amazon smiley box of happiness arrived today!) for my all night Autotrain trip to Florida this weekend.
Malcolm Nance Interview
Although I haven’t read his book yet, I thought what he had to say in this interview was [...]
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