Thought Distillery

As a child, I was rather terrified of just about anything with 8 legs. I can remember many a harrowing standoff between my petrified self and Mr. Arachnid starring at me from my bedroom ceiling with his beady little eyes. How glad I am that I’ve mostly turned all my spider panic into more managable [...]

Lately I seem to be short on words, so for now I’ll simply offer a few tidbits that have kept Mr. Hamster spinning my imagination’s squeaky wheel.
Diesel Hybrid Autos: I would love to see a whole fleet of these on the road powered by 100% biodiesel produced entirely by local vegetable oil crops. With 60mpg [...]

Cool cat could care less
Lousy human elections
Each sunbeam still soothes

Way back yonder, I once listened to a sampling of Captain Beefheart in my Music of Frank Zappa class. Initially turned off by Mr. Van Vliet’s abrasive vocal style, I decided about a year ago to give it another chance. Now the Magic Band is easily one of my favorite, if not most obscure, sources [...]

I am not a violent person. In fact I despise any non-rational conflict. Yet today, filled with rage over various US election results, I find myself wanting to lash out at something - someone - anything.
Will this blog help this anguish? Perhaps - but not this very moment. The thoughts and emotions haven’t crystalized into [...]

It seems that when you mention Oregon to anyone, the first thing that comes to mind is rain. Oregonians have various attitudes toward their climate (which frankly is quite varied - it does NOT rain all or even most of the time). Some hate the gloominess and raininess that fall and winter bring to the [...]

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 [...]

Well, here is an interesting project. Come one, come all and be assimilated by the… er I mean JOIN the social grid. You too can become yet another hunk of data flying around Google’s servers. Whee!

Ah motivation! Can we ever have too much? Well maybe if for ill deeds. But what I’m mainly refering to is motivation to add more (mindless) words to this website. So what motivates me this evening one might ask? Well, for starters I am completely humbled by other bloggers who seem to be much more [...]

Now you can contact the author of Thought Distillery (me) directly. Simply click on the Contact link just below the calendar on the main page to email me messages of love, hate, insight, foresight or even complete confusion. Heck, you can even send your thoughts anonymously if you fear my retaliation, though I’m hardly a [...]