May 2, 2019 – Here are some links for your pre & weekend reading. Enjoy. Photo above taken by Ms. Jen in early april while on a walk through Irvine Regional Park in California What’s the Opposite of a Cellphone Photo? Fintan O’Toole: Are…
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Tidbits for Monday, or the Week, Reading…
‘Roma’ star Yalitza Aparicio is so much more than her Oscar fairy tale Cory Doctorow: Disruption for Thee, But Not for Me Technological disruption is everywhere from AirBnB to Uber to… Mr. Doctorow hits the nail on the head on the Silicon Valley’s obsession…
Tidbits for Your Weekend Reading
Encounter with the Infinite: How Did the Minimally Trained, Isolated Srinivasa Ramanujan, with Little More than an Out-of-Date Elementary Textbook, Anticipate Some of the Deepest Theoretical Problems of Mathematics—Including Concepts Discovered Only after His Death? Ms. Jen says – Well written article on Srinivasa…
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Photo taken by Ms. Jen with her Nokia 808 PureView. One of the true delights about my post-Christmas trip to London last year was to see how differently the days after Christmas and after New Years were lived out in the UK versus the…
What I Have to Offer
Tues 09.11.12 – Eden Kennedy linked to filmmaker Eliot Rausch’s video of an exerpt from Charlie Kaufman’s BAFTA lecture last September. It is just what I needed to be reminded of today. To all of you who have lost friends or family members in…
Tidbits from Sunday Blog Reading
Living Small on Battening Down the Hatches, while Charlotte has a freezer full of pork, I have a freezer full of lamb (from the OC Fair). Wendell Berry’s Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front poem: “Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in…
Fantasy, Science Fiction, Imagination, Faith, and Modernity
There has been quite the internet blog-o-sphere to do revolving around Michael Weingrad’s essay “Why There Is No Jewish Narnia“, which led to D.G. Myers asserting that “Fantasy is a Genre of Christianity“, where upon E.D. Kain proposes that it is not Christianity but…