Posted in Least Popular on April 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As anyone who regularly reads my posts knows, I have an obsession about memories. This post is about remembering a NPR radio show about remembering. It’s even more complicated than that, because it’s about finding that radio show from This American Life for a second time. My friend Connell called me up a few weeks [...]
Posted in Global Warming, Least Popular on February 21, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve enjoyed a lot of embedded film clips on the blogs I read so I thought I’d experiment and try to embed a clip here, unfortunately I learned through trial and error and the FAQ page at WordPress that Flash videos are a no-no. That’s too bad. If you want to watch the film I’m [...]
Posted in Least Popular on February 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Last night I had another dinosaur dream. I dreamed I was with two people that time traveled to the past and lived in a large compound. In this dream I was my making my first jump to the past and was being shown around by the others. The opening scene I shifted from now to then and sat with two other people at [...]
Posted in Information, Least Popular, Magazines on June 10, 2007 | No Comments »
I often think about that movie Short Circuit with the little robot named Number Five who kept shouting, “More input, more input.” That’s how I feel about life. I wish I could process information as fast as Number Five.
This morning I cleaned off several chaotic stacks of mail from my desk. I have hundreds of [...]
Posted in Copyright, Information, Least Popular on April 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Libraries used to be repositories of knowledge. Writers wanted their books bought by libraries so they could be preserved for all time. Times have changed and their labors of love are being lost. Quite often when I buy a used book on Amazon.com I get an ex-library edition back in the mail. I recently bought [...]
Posted in Least Popular, Memory on March 13, 2007 | No Comments »
If you searched the net you can find plenty of writers riled up over The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s The Definitive 200 list of CDs they want you to own. Since I’m a list maker myself, see The Classics of Science Fiction, I like to think about preparing a good list. The Rock [...]
Posted in Dreaming, Least Popular on January 7, 2007 | No Comments »
In my dream I was outside, in a public place. There were no buildings. I saw a few trees in planters. A man stood talking to a group of people. I was one of them. We sat on rock benches and I felt I was in a class. The man talking was a teacher, a [...]
Posted in Dreaming, Least Popular on January 4, 2007 | No Comments »
I died in my dreams last night. No biggie, I’ve died in my dreams several times over the years. Dying in dreamland is intense. Yesterday I was having some minor heart trouble and last night I dreamed my heart stopped. I felt myself falling. My last thought was, “Here I go” with a sense of [...]
Posted in Least Popular, Memory on January 2, 2007 | No Comments »
During the Ozzie and Harriet years, when I was seven and people called me Jimmy, my sister Becky and our best friends Mikey and Patty, would beg old tattered terry cloth towels from our moms and pretend to be George Reeves. We’d tie those old faded pastel rags around our necks, stretch out our arms, [...]
Posted in Dreaming, Least Popular on December 30, 2006 | No Comments »
Some scientists suggest that dreams are a side effect of your brain’s processing of daily memories. Others compare dreams to jumbled thoughts of an unconscious mind. This reminds me of studies done on people put into sensory deprivation tanks where they would hallucinate. Are dreams just unconscious hallucinations? I’m also reminded of several brain books [...]
