Who do you know who sits around talking about Ludwig Wittgenstein. I certainly don’t, and I at least studied German. In fact, I spent six months living with two philosophy students, and they didn’t sit around talking about Wittgenstein. And so, it’s surprising to me that I picked up a novel–a published novel–that seems to [...]
No, it’s not from the book of Proverbs (though it’d be really cool, if it were.) I’m talking about a phenomenon I noticed recently on the critiquing website I use. (You really don’t have to think very hard to figure out what it might be.) I’d begun posting by basically writing up a first-draft of [...]
I don’t know why I never heard it on the public radio station at home, before, but I’ve been enjoying listening to a program called “This American Life” over the Internet, recently. I can’t give an unqualified recommendation. I’d say fifty percent of what I heard was the kind of stuff I’ll be talking about [...]
So, I’ve been working on a project. I’ve started to like the idea of ‘Flash Fiction’–that’s fiction in under a thousand words–and have been (mostly) enjoying the stories I get (for free, check it out) from Every Day Fiction. I loved the idea of boiling a story down to it’s most fundamental, and presenting just [...]
It’s funny. I feel like I ‘embraced’ the Internet at a young age. I mean, I was never a paper-over-pixels kind of guy. And, as for accepting Wikipedia and blogs as news sources, I wasn’t the first person, but I was probably in the first 25 percent, and I think that’s good. But, more and [...]
You might not know this about me, but I’m a miser. Christine’s a little bit cheap, herself, but I’m a miser. I was criticized at work, once, for eating Ramen noodles after college. That’s just the kind of guy I can be. But, like anybody else, I have my weaknesses. Amazon is one of them, [...]