Technology & MSG

Whoever is operating the fortune cookie machine is asleep at the switch. Lately I’ve been getting cookies with multiple fortunes. Whenever you get duplicates, you want to believe that it’s more applicable.
In Cookie #1, there were three fortunes. All the same.
“People find it difficult to resist your persuasive manner.”
In Cookie #2, there were four. Two [...]

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I found Tom Clancy’s Battle Ready to be an interesting portrait of USMC General Tony Zinni (now retired) and how he progressed in his career through some rather tumultuous engagements.
A lot of the book is set in Zinni’s own words, with minimal narration and filling in by Clancy. This is a good thing, since Zinni’s [...]

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Asha Bandele is a wise lady.
“Writing requires us to take the world on more slowly, to notice its harshness as well as its richness.”
And also.
“Writing reduces the chaos in my mind [and] makes me feel in control of myself and therefore appreciative of the world.”
Well put.

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Over the past week or two I read Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us).
Why the other lane always seems faster, why we suck as drivers, how our eyes and minds betray us on the road, issues of congestion, why dangerous roads are safer, among other topics. The [...]

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Someone at The Washington Post’s Express has still got my blog in their feed reader, because I was quoted in this morning’s Blog Log again. To the nameless person sitting in cubicle downtown somewhere, no doubt toiling again for tomorrow’s column, thank you! I don’t ride the Metro every morning, so thanks to Snay for [...]

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