Posts Tagged With "perspective"

The Value of Past Days

abstract & thinking, history & archives »

[27 Apr 02012 | 614 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

A number of months ago I published a post about the purpose of time capsules. I attempted, in that vague sort of way I attempt most things in my writing, to argue one purpose of time capsules as a way of …

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A Cache of Time

abstract & thinking, history & archives, technology »

[9 Nov 02011 | 318 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

I’ve never participated in the creation or the discovery of a time capsule, so maybe I don’t know what I’m talking about. But, that said, the idea makes me curious.
Some of the things I’d been reading in the days before I …

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e-Relics

history & archives, meta & methods, technology »

[31 Oct 02011 | 296 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

Have you ever lost something and then found it again? I’m always doing that sort of thing with my data. And isn’t that to be expected? After all, with nearly eleven years of blogging under my belt, and another six or …

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Moonwalker Forty-Two

fatherhood, scientist & skeptic, skepdad »

[20 Jul 02011 | 1,544 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

A day involving news about space travel, the moon, and the number 42. That’s my kinda story.
Or, at least, that is to say, forty-two years ago today the Apollo 11 moon mission touched down in the Sea of Tranquillity on the …

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Of May Two-One – The Country Club

history & archives, work & business »

[17 May 02011 | 367 views | 5 minutes of your time ]

What I learned about the art of politics working at my last job is both simple and complex; It is simple because if one understands the nuances of high school popularity, there are many, many parallels that can be drawn between the …

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Integrity

informology »

[25 Nov 02009 | 149 views | 4 minutes of your time ]

Having just spent the day with my daughter preparing for an upcoming vacation — queuing laundry, finalizing dog care, and tidying the house — I thought it was (if not timely) interesting that the University of Alberta School of Business held an …

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Monumental Icons

writing »

[16 Dec 02007 | 378 views | 2 minutes of your time ]

December 16
I came across an image the other day that was some art — or a screen-cap — or something from the Lord of the Rings. Remember in the first movie when they are in the boats going along the river? …

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What I’m Not Doing This Month

fatherhood, work & business, writing »

[13 Nov 02007 | 285 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

I’m not writing. After years of guilty Novembers, pursuing the banality and pure quantity of NaNoWriMo, I declined to participate this month on a mere handful of excuses. They are…
1) I should really be working on my other writing project. …

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One Thing…?

critters, fatherhood »

[3 Jul 02007 | 456 views | 2 minutes of your time ]

With less than (as scheduled) three months until the baby comes, I’ve been thinking a little bit about legacies. I know there are a lot of parents out there with loads of good advice, but for this particular request I don’t …

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