Have you been reading about the controversy regarding Marissa Mayer, the new CEO of Yahoo? She's terminated all telecommuting at the company, which has stirred up a hornet's nest over working from home, working parents, collaborative teams and the very nature of work ( Read more... )

My country seems to think it is locked into a cold equation. (Google for the short story by Tom Godwin if you can, and read it. Baen Books has it online and various colleges have uploaded it as well. I read it in college and have never forgotten it.) That is to say, most Americans believe stark, hard choices have to be made to remedy our ( Read more... )

In the spirit of continuing to clean off my desktop, here's a few rambling thoughts on current topics in life and politics. The last ramble was in response to a question I've seen posed a few places lately in various forms, including this thread at Making Light.

( Questions and Answers, Specific and General )

I am new to this whole digital download thing, but I do like learning about and trying out new music, so I've been getting mp3s from Amazon (mostly). #1 also bugs me to download stuff for his little Sansa Clip. He's not allowed to download; he's too young ( Read more... )

I have been reading Samuel Johnson's account of Dr. Boswell's trip to Scotland. There were three quotes I bookmarked for further use, and I wanted to explore them here.

First Quote:

"Books are faithful repositories, which may be a while neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once ( Read more... )

Everything's done; what do I do? Why surf the Internet looking for links, of course! And in the spirit of Christmas, I share...

NORAD: Santa Tracker. Google Earth has one too, but I like NORAD. Plus you get Santa Cams on YouTube!

History of the NORAD Santa Tracker, via The Agonist blog.

Crazy economic thoughts from David Brooks, deconstructed by Sean ( Read more... )

I've been reading a lot about Scotland lately, in sorta preparation for what may be my NaNo novel this year (I'll give you a taste of it before I start, but it's ambitious and will probably founder badly, I warn you.)

Anyway my nighttime book is How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman, and I very much enjoyed the chapter on Adam ( Read more... )