Archive for July, 2009
Published July 31st, 2009
It is a still, windless night - almost airless. I toss and turn, avoiding my back, wishing the air felt cold. But it does not. It has been dark for hours, but the sun has not yet set beyond my flesh. It burns like a tortured soul.
I take some pills. I was out today, having […]
Published July 20th, 2009
Today marks 40 years since the greatest engineering feat in all of humankind - putting man on the moon with the Apollo 11 mission. I mean no hyperbole - today’s cell phones are orders of magnitude more powerful than the computers used during the Apollo missions. They really did achieve something that could have been […]
Published July 8th, 2009
July 4th weekend. Independence Day, for those of us in the USA. How many of us really think about that anymore? What it really means? I don’t know. Mostly we use it as an excuse to drink, grill, eat and blow stuff up. But then again - maybe that’s exerting our freedoms in a very […]
Published July 1st, 2009
It’s good to see that the ultimate decline of civilization into anarchy isn’t quite here yet. I guess I’ll keep putting money in my 401K and trying to be a good person. That’s pretty much all I get out of a recent study by the AAA. They looked at cell phone use in California since […]