It does seem to like this everywhere

Sometimes it gets so hard to care…

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An explanation

I am more afraid of falling in love than any other of the addictions that I wish to avoid. [Addiction is a form of repetitive behavior. Many kinds of compulsive repetitive behavior are useful and/or necessary.]

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Employment strikes

I am again a bookseller! Thank you Half Price Books, on the left side of Madison!

Books for Industry

This BoingBoing article set off an odd mixture of feelings:
Boing Boing: Furniture made from books

Second Editions is a Berkeley-based business run by Jim Rosenau, a software developer and carpenter. He builds furniture out of books — mostly books (“I remove some of the paper and replace it with a sturdy armature of salvaged lumber.”).

The [...]

The world notices The World

As part of my decompression from the election, I am trying to read blogs dealing with more than politics. Having SlashDot as my home page helps. Another endless source of fascination is BoingBoing, a site that collects curious and stimulating items from a techno-scifi perspective. This week Cory Doctorow picked up on an article from [...]

Live from Massachusetts

Blogging from the Essex Conference Center in Essex, MA, just because I can. I’m up here for what seems to be currently called the Convocation on Ministery With Youth. The plan is to begin the process of evaluating and potentially making big changes in the way the UUA does youth ministry. What are our unserved [...]

Greetings from Boston

I had to post once from Pickett and Elliot House here at the UUA in Boston. I’m at my first YRUU Steering Committee meeting, and have now officially survived it. We managed to chew off a big chunk of the “Common Ground 3″ problem/opportunity in a manner that honors the difficulty we have with the [...]

The sound of marching feet, boy…

I’ve been doing canvassing work for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) for the last month, through Grassroots Campaigns. It’s a little odd for me to work this directly with the party, but I’m happy to do nearly anything to press regime change in this country. I’m enjoying the work on several levels. I love talking [...]

What April?

So what happened to April. Well it was a pretty frantic month! The first clue is that I’m moving to Madison, WI this week. I don’t know if I’ll be able to post until I get set up there. My email will stay the same.