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Posts from January 2014

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#FridayFive: Ducks

#FridayFive: Ducks January 31st, 2014 @ 5:54 am PST

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On Mystery

On Mystery January 30th, 2014 @ 6:39 am PST

One thing is that I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs, in different degrees of certainty, about different things. But I’m not absolutely sure of anything and […]

The 1973 National Personnel Records Center Fire

The 1973 National Personnel Records Center Fire January 27th, 2014 @ 6:38 am PST

A few weeks ago I did a little web searching on a mission to see if it would be possible to acquire duplicates of any or all of my grandfather’s service medals. He fought as a member of Merrill’s Marauders in the Pacific Theater in WWII and I know he had been awarded (at least) […]

books

Happy Birthday, W. Somerset Maugham January 25th, 2014 @ 2:34 pm PST

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” W. Somerset Maugham, January 25, 1874 – December 16, 1965

#FridayFive: Teenage Wasteland

#FridayFive: Teenage Wasteland January 24th, 2014 @ 7:49 am PST

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Los Angeles

Vegas, Baby January 23rd, 2014 @ 10:34 am PST

So Money: An Oral History of Swingers

On creativity

On creativity January 23rd, 2014 @ 7:06 am PST

Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work. Gustave Flaubert

Roger and Elaine

Roger and Elaine January 21st, 2014 @ 7:15 am PST

On men and women

Prohibition!

Prohibition! January 17th, 2014 @ 5:36 am PST

It’s the 94th birthday of Prohibition! The Eighteenth Amendment, the Volstead Act, took effect on this date in 1920, a year after it was ratified. Congress passed the Act even though President Woodrow Wilson had vetoed it. It made the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor illegal. It took almost 14 years before the 21st […]

Maui, 2013

#FridayFive: Places in Maui January 17th, 2014 @ 4:28 am PST

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