[Review] Everyman

by | May 10, 2011 | Book Review, English

I believe that we can only appreciate life when confronted with the irrevocable finality of death. I have never loved life more than in the immediate aftermath of when I was certain I would die. On those rare, few occasions everything changes. The concept of free will...
[Review] Darwin Among the Machines

[Review] Darwin Among the Machines

by | Aug 22, 2009 | English

George Dyson asks us this most reasonable question: if biologic life derived organically from the basic elements, then is it such a stretch to believe that biologic life will also one day derive from mechanical elements? After all, as Paul Romer asks, what is...
5:25 A.M.

5:25 A.M.

by | Dec 17, 2008 | English, Moleskinned

For two years of my life I woke up, more often than not, at 5:25 a.m. It’s only bad when you’re not used to it. After a week of waking up before sunrise nothing could feel more normal. It’s amazing what we adapt to. Anything. My alarm was always set...

[Changes] Loving Work, But Loving Life Too

by | Apr 9, 2008 | English

It’s midnight and I’m doing what I usually do at midnight – working. In fact, the reason I haven’t really written much of substance here for the past few weeks (months?) is ’cause I’ve been so tired of hearing myself talk about how...

Quejar

by | Dec 13, 2007 | Moleskinned

I don’t complain. I’m allergic to it. Incapable. I don’t know how. I try. And I fail. I realize that complaining, to a certain degree, is the currency of compassion. We sit, a coffee, a glass of wine, an apertif. You complain, I soothe. Then: I...