The sign of matured writing is in how an author treats the “profound.” It’s something you can see in every aspect of someone’s writing–their words, style, and especially the topic and ideas they’re discussing. Why “matured?” Because I think overcoming the profound is the last hurdle to good writing.
In your effort to evoke emotion, share [...]
Humans are social animals, and no social event is probably more important to us than eating together. We’ve done it for millenia out of necessity. The hunters and gatherers hunted and gathered as a group, and it was easiest to prepare and share that food as a group, too. In my imagination, those shared meals [...]
Orthography isn’t my subject. One of the best ways for me to remember how to spell a word is to break it up into smaller words, even if those smaller parts don’t have any real meaning for the word. This is one that always bothered me until…
res
These letters are easy to remember.
tau
Like the Greek letter.
rant
As [...]
These are the nachos of the gods. Yeah, I’m looking at pictures of food on Flickr. Suzanne and I are planning a trip to Asheville in February, and Salsa’s (a restaurant) is at the top of the list of recommended cuisine to try.
This picture alone has ruined all other nachos for me, ever.
On Daniel’s suggestion, I’m writing this article on my personal approach to getting stuff that I don’t want to do, done. I’m a huge fan of “Getting Things Done” and “The Four Hour Work Week,” but for the severely attention-challenged, such systems have their own difficulty in implementation. Somewhere between my ADHD and the need to [...]
I’m watching “Braveheart” on TBS, commercials, edits, broadcast quality and all. Six inches away from my tv is the same movie on DVD, on a shelf filled with DVDs. Almost none of which I’d ever actually watched (saw the movie in the theater or something, just didn’t watch the disc).
I wonder if this is true [...]