There are options if we just try different things I’ve had some conversations with people recently who, like me, have been watching the situation in Ukraine and wondered about the impact on our supply of wheat. Ukraine provides 10% of the world’s wheat. With the war, that supply is in…

It’s an interesting new world — Remember watching any of the Star Trek shows and seeing them in the holodeck? The space crew members created scenarios with their computers where they could move around and interact as if it was the real thing. Science fiction projecting a future where nothing was impossible. During the Queen’s Platinum…

Hobo has opinions and decides to share them. — Hey Shadows, it’s about time I got my paws on the keyboard. You’re really stingy about sharing some time. I’m going start by telling you, I’m really unhappy at you giving that stranger cat a featured image recently. My pic had better land on this one. You do know I…

Queen Elizabeth’s skit with Paddington Bear sparked my curiousity — As much as I enjoy the pomp and ceremony of events like the Trooping of the Colours to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majest Queen Elizabeth II I think the part I enjoyed the most was this: I remembered reading the Paddington Bear books as a child. The…

My note-taking and workflow process. In April I wrote a post about the Zettlekasten or slip-box system most people would associate with the work of Nicklas Luhmann. He wasn’t the first to use the slip-box system, his prolific writings from the contents of his caught people’s attention. The search for…

Memes are found every where. Where did they start? — Any scroll though social media feed will likely surface plenty of memes. They are all over the place. Some don’t seem to make any sense. Some are funny. Some make you think. Others express a very real point. I was surprised to learn the term was coined by Richard Dawkins…

Reflections on Bertrand Russell’s Commandments — Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher born in 1872. To many he was considered to be one of the foremost philosophers of the twentieth century and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. He was known as a campaigner for peace, most notably during WW1 when he…

Not much is new under the sun Ever heard the saying, “There’s nothing new under the sun”? We think that much is new in our world. Usually when we scratch the surface we’ll find what appears to be new is different ways of using things we already knew about. The…

You can’t grow as writer if you engage in spamming others. — We all tend to be busy in our lives. There never seems to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what we really want to get done. Sometimes it’s because we’ve let squirrels draw our attention away. Sometimes it is because we’re off on our estimates of how long…