Experimentation and experience points.

If you’ve ever played games like The Sims or World of Warcraft (or, if you want to go old school, Dungeons & Dragons), you understand the concept of experience points. I previously mentioned it supposedly takes 10,000 hours to master any given skill. What can be misleading is that in The Sims* you can rack up [...]

More good fortune(s).

I really need to do something about the ventilation in my wannabe studio before I end up brain-damaged. Anyway, here are two new additions to my slowly growing ‘fortune cookie’ collection. Click to zoom, be forewarned that my photography skills are lacking this evening. I blame CFL lighting and the beeswax/damar high. And I blame [...]

You will need to relax today.

This may be called a perfect weekend. It started Friday evening, with an after-work happy hour with two beloved friends. We had agreed that the ‘no alcohol in November’ addition to my patience list was going to have to be modified with ‘except on Fridays.’ I know I’ve mentioned this before, but there is something wonderful to [...]

Photo of the day: 10.14.2011

The only reason I spotted this photo was because Coby snuck outside to the front yard when I wasn’t looking in order to pet our neighbor’s ancient golden retriever, Buster. This dog apparently has free reign of the neighborhood, and can be spotted spontaneously diving into the ocean and swimming without anyone around. Buster is [...]

The inward journey

I have been fortunate enough to participate this year in a Pacifica Graduate Institute program called Engaged Humanities and the Creative Life. To put it mildly, it has been mind-blowing. For the final assignment of one of our first classes, we were asked to produce a creative work and write a statement.  This is what [...]