Monthly Archives: February 2008

My father in law just sent me a really cool website to check out. It is called TED.com. The tagline for the website is “ideas worth sharing”. It is a series of lectures by some famous (and famous in their … Continue reading →

This has been a truly great week for me and  I realized that I hadn’t blogged about it yet. On Tuesday I my friend Marla got me a ticket to hear Barack Obama speak at the Toyota Center. Needless to … Continue reading →

37. Nelson Mandela by Finlayson, Reggie (128 pg) A young adult biography of the South African leader. One interesting thing that I learned was that Mandela was called teh Black Pimpernell by his supporters before he went to prison because he worked … Continue reading →

I finally watched season 4 of the office. I drug my heals for so long about this show because I am stubborn and I didn’t want everyone else telling me that I “had” to watch the show. But now it … Continue reading →

OK, by now you have figured out that I probably can’t finish 100 books by the time baseball season starts. It would be something like 2 books a day from now until then. Impossible is the word that comes to … Continue reading →

I realized that I missed last week so this is for the last two weeks (also a nice working in of a useless British term). last week – 225this morning – 224.5I really don’t know how I have stayed pretty stable … Continue reading →

People are always asking me. “So, what are you really good at?” Here is a random sampling of my answers to this oft asked question. Parallel parking, making lists of cool stuff, painting stuff that is easy to paint, fantasy … Continue reading →

If you want to be happy, practice compassion. If you want others to be happy, practice compasssion. His Holiness the Dalai Lama

In an effort to be fair to all the candidates I listened carefully to each of the speeches that the candidates made today after the Potomac primaries. I was really interested in hearing John McCain. I heard something that I … Continue reading →

One of the arguments between Hillary and Obama is who is more electable in November. My thinking has been that Obama is more electable in the general election and the following seems to support that position. The key for the Democrats … Continue reading →