Thought Distillery

I find it perfectly natural to talk about computer programming, investing, growing bamboo trees, and extended backpacking trips all in the same breath. However all I get in return are looks of confusion. Am I the only one who understands me? Is the bigger picture really that difficult to grasp?
"A squid eating dough in a [...]

Normally I’m a stairs kind of person. Its not that I dislike elevators, I just think that as long as I’m physically capable and can spare an extra minute why not just get a bit of exercise? Or maybe its not an exercise thing. My earliest memory of stairing over elevatoring is a lighthouse visit [...]

This last weekend brought a zany bunch of people to Corvallis for the annual Davinci Days Kinetic Sculpture Race. The krazy kontraptions are completely human powered and compete in a 3 stage race up the streets, through a mud bog, and down the river. In the end, everyone was a winner because the fun was [...]

Last weekend I finally made a trip to Oregon’s Cascade Mountains. I thoroughly enjoyed myself tramping over the patches of snow and was fascinated by the landscape ravaged by a recent volcanic past. You can see a few pictures in the updated gallery.
Anyway, as I lay beneath my homemade quilt I was very attuned to [...]

Inspired by the zany projects of fellow Indiana University alumnus Mark Horowitz, I present Pogo Chronicles Part I: The Vision.
The Scenario: A group of parched individuals sit at a table in the park in dire need of cold and refreshing carbonated soft drinks. Too exhausted to move, they look with puppy dog eyes far across [...]

Now before anyone thinks I’ve gone pink triangles, the title of this post refers to a very intriguing French film staring the lovely Audrey Tatou. Like many people, I simply fell in love with this actress upon watching Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain so naturally I was quick to jump on the wait list at [...]

Today I made a few updates to this blog. The biggest change is that entries are now archived individually along with their comments. The timestamp link at the bottom of each entry leads to this default archive. A side effect of this is that readers can now read comments directly in the entry archive, or [...]

With my recent Scrabble and Anagram themes, I can’t help but post this link to a Scrabble Anagram Poem.
It seems that one could come up with a million variations of amusement centered around this classic game. You could even use Scrabble scoring to turn your lunch of alphabet soup into a competition. Hmm, I think [...]