Slow. Methodical. Thoughtful. It is the only way to proceed when playing with fire, figuratively speaking. While I allow myself to be impulsive at times, this is not one of them. So, I find myself in the predicament of “Amélie Poulin”:http://imdb.com/title/tt0211915/, relying on _stratagème_ in … Read More →
Category Archives: People
Seethe
Life offers many lessons, and one is abundantly clear: for some situations, there is no answer, no right solution, no yellow brick road.
Communism Falls
!(alignright)http://www.sensoryoutput.com/wp-images/postings/castro.jpg(Fidel Castro)! Literally. “Fidel Castro tripped and fell”:http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/10/21/international0937EDT0520.DTL while stepping off-stage, breaking his knee and arm. He quickly got up to reassure the crowd of 30,000 that he was still OK. I saw the video, and it wasn’t really that bad except that Fidel is … Read More →
Hicksdesign Redesign
“Jon Hicks”:http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/ has “implemented a redesign”:http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/597/its-not-quite-finished of his blog, powered by “Textpattern”:http://textpattern.com/. I really enjoy his designs and mastery of CSS(Cascading Style Sheets), and this one is no exception. In brief, the use of white space is wonderful, a nice reprieve from the clutter of … Read More →
When the Internet Gets Personal
Most of the time, the internet is a safe haven where people can loosely hide behind an online handle. People exchange ideas, discuss, battle it out, but in the end, all is well because we go to bed in real life knowing that our realities … Read More →
O, human beings
Human beings weld a great deal of power: we have the capacity to exist as self-aware, intelligent, logical creatures. That state, however, sits at the end of a very long contiuum on which a person can *choose* a spot. “That really is what it is … Read More →
OrbyOnline returns!
Tom has "updated the design":http://blog.orbyonline.com/archives/2004/06/29/its-alive/ of "OrbyOnline":http://blog.orbyonline.com/, switched from "Moveable Type":http://www.moveabletype.org/ to "WordPress":http://www.wordpress.org/ (nicely), and has promised to start posting regularly after a brief lull for a few months.
Repartie
And as quickly as I reveal my wish to act slowly, methodically, and thoughtfully, circumstances might request otherwise. Opportunities arise once in a lifetime, so I have unexpectedly landed at a crossroads, paradoxically contemplating whether I stick to the original _stratagème_ or jet down some … Read More →