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fudgemallow bars
Oh, geez, this is why you people do caffeine, isn't it.
Not this lying-awake-in-bed-for-hours. No, that's one of the reasons why I generally avoid the stuff. But the quality and clarity of thought, as opposed to the mumble-mumble-don't-ask-me-to-think I spend much of my days in.
So, one of the things this leads me to think about is why I'm so ( Read more... ) -
gazpacho soup
I've got a communication course1 coming up this weekend, and so I'm thinking I should write a little about where I'm at before going in.
The way I've been lately, especially the past few weeks, has ( Read more... ) -
Tuxedos chocolate sandwich cookies
The questions I come up with at 4 am in the middle of a heat wave:
If you take an average of the temperatures of each point on the surface of the Earth, to what extent does it fluctuate? (Over human timescales, not geologic ones.) Does it tend to balance out, i.e. if it's hot here, is there typically cold in other places to smooth it out? I mean ( Read more... ) -
popcorn, followed by catfish po' boy
I went to see Moon tonight, on the recommendation of it being a great hard science-fiction film. It was a good film, but it didn't really deliver on the SF end the way I wanted it to.
My analysis boils down to this: Hard sci-fi should make me think "oh, neat, here's this society made possible by this technology, it's fascinating to think about ( Read more... ) -
little big cookie shake
I've been spending a lot of my attention on alternative currencies lately, driven by an interest in the Portland Timebank community and partners. I've been in some discussions lately about different directions the timebank might develop in, and some of these conversations have succeeded in challenging enough of my assumptions about economies that ( Read more... ) -
brunchbox burger with pineapple
There's an open-source open-space conference Friday. It's possible I want to talk about something but have forgotten what it was. What do I host a session on? -
carrot soup
I've just read the first chapter of Change Leadership: A Practical Guide to Transforming our Schools. It's written by the Change Leadership Group at Harvard.
One of the things that stood out for me in this chapter is where they're making the case for not "reform" in education but "reinvention."
America's system of public education, especially at ( Read more... ) -
turkey quiche and blueberry danish
Request for Friday: I need somewhere in SE Portland to be between roughly 4pm and 7pm. I'll be in the neighborhood, and have a few hours to spend between the two that I don't really want to spend biking all the way north and all the way south again.
(Hmm. Maybe I'll go sportcoat shopping. Any recommendations? Bearly Worn might have something in ( Read more... )