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Conferences are awesome! (Preliminary reflections from Argentina)

So much food!  And good food!  And booze!  Man, I was impressed with Austral airlines for their astute attention to my slowly emptying wine glass...I was pretty rocked when we hit the w...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:31:00 GMT

This crab will break your legs. Snap off your head. It will put you down under the ground.

The business of survival, of the day to day, is a property of the fourth dimension (time).  The current that time and need create carries our frail day to day bodies along, which are themselves d...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:08:00 GMT

Inland Empire

So, for all of you that have seen Inland Empire, I'd appreciate your feedback.My perception of this, the new DL film, which has been described to me by a friend as a bloated pastiche of all of his fil...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:13:00 GMT

a treatice on electronic democracy

The following is part of something I wrote for a class, but I wondered if other people have been thinking about this and would care to comment or contribute.  Pepper, I'll bet you've got a couple...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:21:00 GMT

Greatest Farm Disasters, parts I &II

There are days when I believe life on Soldias farm has infiltrated my blood.  The horses listen to me.  I don't talk to myself anymore, the need is gone.  Silence is more comforting th...
Posted by on Mon, 29 May 2006 21:33:00 GMT

Bikini Bull Riding: analysis and practical applications

So, how 'bout nubile, scantily clad girls flailing around on mechanical bulls?  This is the tagline I used last night to entice some of my red-blooded co-workers to accompany me to the Sunda...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:15:00 GMT

Escape from pasture-traz, or more accurately, Invasion of the Ruminants

Back in October I came home from work to discover that someone (probably a wayward UPS delivery truck) had driven through (and consquently broken) the electric wire "gate" that kept the cows in their ...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:43:00 GMT

How not to influence horses

I'd never spent much time around horses until I came to live on the Wallace farm.  The first time I was to bring them in from the pasture in the evening, I approached them casually and politely i...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:35:00 GMT