Caring… Quakebook 29 Mar 201130 Mar 2011 This might be a new speed record in book collaboration and instant publishing. 2:46 Quakebook. Call for submissions: Twitter's @OurManInAbiko. Three weeks later: an online version of the book. It's…
Brain… If You Build It, They Will See It 14 Mar 201114 Mar 2011 Some people go to all the trouble of designing and producing buildings, only to make them ugly. Why not hire an architect who understands proportions? Select beautiful colors for the…
Animation… Modern Magic 5 Mar 20119 Mar 2011 “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” ~Arthur C. Clarke This weekend, I watched ITT Tech Tempe's graduating design students present capstone projects of architectural plans, or animation, or…
Books… Friday Flick: Book Pusher 11 Feb 201113 Feb 2011 Nancy Pearl is my new book pusher. Every library and every writer needs a Nancy. This inspires me to check out all 1,800 of her favorite picks. It might take…
Blogging… A Slice of Sky 26 Jan 201126 Jan 2011 As soon as I discovered William Herschel's music and bio on KBAQ, I wanted to adopt the man as an honorary ancestor. William Herschel (Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel) professional musician and…
Change the World… Therapeutic Draft 15 Dec 201029 Dec 2010 Almost everyone I meet admits to a book-writing dream, usually a flaming bestseller about what the aspiring author has suffered: twelve chapters detailing the ordeal, and one on the happy…
Change the World… Hope in the mail 30 Jun 201029 Dec 2010 Do you keep some "hope in the mail"? (Wish I knew which writer said that first.) Waiting for a literary agent to sell a book reminds me of my infertility…