Entries Tagged 'And so it is.' ↓

We’re going to see a play, some art galleries, eat some good food and weather a hurricane. Your basic NYC trip.

Hurricane hits Saturday night, and the apartment we rented is at the Zone A/Zone B boundary line in the map below. Zone A is mandatory evacuation. Provided our flight doesn’t get canceled, see you on the other side!

Whenever I pick up Laura’s old school phone I’m always amazed she doesn’t use predictive text (T9) for texting. Trying to be a helpful husband I then talk about how useful it is and turn it on.

Then I forget to turn it off. The following exchange is a good reminder to let working systems be…

This blog has been the end result of a quite substantive number of searches recently for the keywords:

‘The Secret’  + ‘And so it is’

Apparently they’re going to make a movie out of the not-at-all-related-to-this-website book called ‘The Secret’, for which you may read my favorite review of the book here ‘The secret saved my life‘ by Ari Brouilette. My cursory plumbing of the internets to figure out why the phrase ‘and so it is’ is related to the movie turned up …well, this blog. So there you go. Something must be brewing, but apparently it’s still a secret.

This blog is likely the top result (hey!), because in a fit of guarded, privacy-hoarding introversion I named this blog ‘secret’, and quite coincidentally I have a category here called ‘And so it is‘. Which has a few nice things in it, if I do say so myself.

Actually, I’m quite sure I’m using the power of The Secret right now (and some basic keyword fixing) to acquire all traffic related to this search query right now! Because – well, let’s be honest – it makes me giggle. So there you go, there is a connection.

Just to really go the full length, here’s a picture of The Secret, and so it is. Which, after you’ve viewed it, will allow this search query, and this blog entry, to remain just as obscure and, I don’t know, secretive? As it was upon your arrival:

Secret - And so it is

It seems like a generation of heroes are on the move this week. Howard Zinn and now JD Salinger. Ah – on the same, sad day – Jan 27. You’ll be missed.

I really enjoyed this letter from JD Salinger regarding the denial of movie rights for Catcher in the Rye. via Letters of Note. You cannot say the man did not care about his characters.

“Not to mention, God help us all, the immeasurably risky business of using actors.”

There’s an excellent post over at  Fake Steve Jobs about what, I expect, we all consciously or instinctively know about our culture right now. Fake Steve’s rant is inspired by this great comparison of the fears of Aldous Huxley vs George Orwell in comic form, the words of which were taken from the book Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Stuart McMillen, which will definitely be going on my must-read list.

Brave New World is still one of the most amazing books I’ve ever read.

I recently finished Feed by M.T. Anderson, which was an incredibly adept, modern take on Brave New World and highly recommended.

Now then, I’m off to play Risk on my iPhone. And did I mention it’s efffking hot here?

WTF? I live in Portland! The city will drown in a sea of heat wave.