Having freed myself a little of the restraints of keeping personal information personal (in my About page) I feel I can discuss a broader array of topics. I’m going to start with my stargazing. I had acquired a telescope not long ago. The story goes something like this: I had access to a 15 dollar [...]
So do you think words have a lot of power? I often wonder about power, the concept and its application. Authority is said to have power, the power to make us comply in fact. The question is do words have power or does the author of those words carry the power. I guess the simplest [...]
Directed by: Michael Bay Well let me start with: wow! I’m a skeptic and not a fan of action films in general. So I probably wasn’t the most keen person in the world to see this. But being a fan of the old tv show and in fact wanting desperately to see the effects I [...]
The question I have for today is: does it make sense to have a library in one’s home? I want to mention that being a researcher qualifies as needing a library for obvious reasons he/she needs access to books of their field of research. What about anyone aside from researchers?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6270020.stm Good news. Must have been a nightmare.