Several weeks ago I spend a few days on Nakagomi Orchard (facebook page) WWOOFing. The idea was to get away from city life and spend time away from technology by volunteering on a farm in exchange for food and board. I never expected to see entrepreneurial spirit in full force. Our host, Nakagomi Kazumasa was [...]
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Although it’s not much to go by, if you look at the registrars for the possible names “iTablet” and “iSlate” only iSlate uses the same registrar as the other Apple . I guess we’ll find out next week. Markmonitor’s header reads “Brand Protection, Domain Management, Anti Fraud Solutions”. Sounds like something Apple would be [...]
Perhaps the most important thing you can do when you set a goal is to decide what happens after you achieve them or fail in your pursuit. This past three months has been a hectic one in many respects. One of the many things on my agenda was to lose weight. I’m not overweight by [...]
Been exercising more and more, losing motivation and the whole nine. Still managing to keep the weight at a so-so level but not feeling that extra bump to go the whole nine yards. Now I’m about to enter the last 3 weeks of my program far from my way too ambitious goals. I want to [...]
Last week I replaced my office chair with an exercise ball. I actually bought two, one for the home and one for the office. I was looking for more ways to do something about my sedentary lifestyle as a desk monkey. Sales people get to make phone calls and go out of the office (so [...]
Blink is Malcolm Glaswell’s take on the art of making snap decisions that in many cases out perform a long, drawn out response. We’ve all been in situations where we thought, planned, and deliberated so long on something and it still ended up turning out wrong. Blink takes this phenomenon of “thin-slicing” and examines it [...]
Women in Love is a continuation of DH Lawrence’s story of the Brangwen sisters first introduced in Rainbow. This novel revolves around the two Brangwen sisters and their loves, Gerald and Birkin who also share an unspoken love of each other. The novel takes an a completely different style from Rainbow. The first half is [...]
Eyeless in Gaza is a novel exploring the spiritual roots of virtue and vice through Anthony and Brian. Anthony is shy and delicate, armored in intellectual cynicism and passivity. Anthony’s lack of conviction and moral cowardice lies in contrast to his outward beauty and intellectual powers. Brian is a kind and gentle soul with a [...]
The Rainbow is a sensuous novel following three generations of Brangwens, a well to do farming family in the rural midlands of England, starting with Tom Brangwen, his Polish step daughter and finally Ursula (his grand daughter). D.H. Lawrence was a controversial writer of his time for his exploration of sensuality and this novel is [...]
My eyesight’s really taken a turn for the worse these last two years. I started wearing glasses for the first time in my life starting this year. When I was a kid I was diagnosed with a mild case of lazy eye where I relied on one eye more than the other. As an adult [...]