From one of my favorite people, Bucky Fuller:”Really great artists are scientists, and the really great scientists are artists and both are inventors. I think that all humans are born artist-scientist-inventors but that life progressively squelches the individual¹s drive and capabilities.”-R. Buckminster Fuller
February 28th, 2004
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I know it’s easy for me to say since I don’t live where it snows more than once every 5 years, but I miss snow. I grew up in Pittsburgh and never hated the snow – that wasn’t the reason I moved to the warmer climes. These images look like paintings, but they are actual [...]
February 16th, 2004
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flapped its wings, would it cause a tornado in Texas? That question seems to have taken the place of “..if a tree falls… and noone is around to hear… does it make a sound?” I like the Chaos Theory, however, in place of that old philosophical question, since Chaos deals with complex systems and the [...]
February 14th, 2004
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For me, Exit Clov is reminiscent of the Bangels, Over the Rhine, a little of Cowboy Junkies. I didn’t hear any Ronettes in their songs, but I guess it’s in the ear of the beholder and all that. I think some of you will like them. Check them out and DL their 4 mp3s at:
http://www.exitclov.com/home1.htm
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February 10th, 2004
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I mentioned this briefly before, but I wanted to say it again because I am so encouraged that there is an organization that is doing such wonderful work – The Howard Hughes Institute.
“The Institute is a nonprofit medical research organization that employs hundreds of leading biomedical scientists working at the forefront of their fields. In [...]
February 6th, 2004
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Guidance counselors are supposed to be student advocates. In the new paradigm of transforming counseling, a counselor is supposed to be looking at larger pictures of student achievement and be able to make recommendations for improvement. Well, I did that and my only word of caution is to be careful that you’re not stepping on [...]
February 5th, 2004
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