I'm breaking my LJ silence because this shit is important.

For the past week, I've been blogging over at the new Innerspace about this program I'm putting together. I call it Roscoe Learns to Think. Over the course of three months, I and many others are going to practice and develop our powers of observation, multitasking, singletasking, and memory ( Read more... )

 I just finished this article on Greg Mortensen’s Three Cups of Tea, and his continuing work in Afghanistan and throughout central Asia. I saw the book in Borders not too long ago, but couldn’t afford it. I’m going to have to pick up a copy, and soon.

Because this, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win a war. And, for some reason, nobody ever ( Read more... )

"I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love when every day is just a struggle to survive...but I do insist that you DO survive. Because the days, and the years ahead, are worth living for. One day, soon, man is going to be able to harness incredible energies, maybe even the atom, energies that could ultimately hurl us to other ( Read more... )

"Write about what inspires you, what terrifies you, and what turns you on." - Laurie Bland

If this doesn't inspire you, you are cold and hard inside.

I shivered the first time I heard this, right around the first chorus, a wave of gooseflesh reverberating through my body. Sometimes I try to put myself into the thoughts of other times...and the ( Read more... )