Zodomatica Bits of Tzaddi’s Life

Much to my surprise, I found an interesting, artsy documentary at the Sechelt Library this week: WIDE AWAKE by Alan Berliner. (Links: Slate - recommended, IMDB - snoring.)
Alan has spent decades suffering with insomnia. The film documents his personal journey to solve the puzzle. It seems he’s tried everything (including valerian root, that’s found [...]

Posted: January 7th, 2008 under Art, Culture Consumed.
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Today is Blog Day, when bloggers around the world have been invited to write about five other blogs. We were asked to seek new sites, especially ones from around the world which are out of the realm we would normally read.
Although I have no shortage of sites to read most of my online reading follows [...]

Posted: August 31st, 2007 under Computers & Tech, Culture Consumed.
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It was a day of sloth in our house… we also watched Scotland, PA. It’s a black comedy set around a 70’s burger joint. The main characters’ last names are MacBeth, but I guess I’m rusty on my Shakespeare as I didn’t make the connection to the plot of the play. Anyway it was pretty [...]

Posted: June 16th, 2007 under Culture Consumed.
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We just finished watching Dead Man, probably one of the strangest movies I’ve ever watched (and liked…). Johnny Depp plays a mild-mannered accountant who travels across country for a job and quickly ends up a desperado in the wild west, accompanied by Gary Farmer as a native american called “Nobody”. Quite the cast of cameos: [...]

Posted: June 16th, 2007 under Culture Consumed.
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Last night I attended Scott Berkun’s lecture covering some of the topics from his book The Myth of Innovation (thanks, VanUE!). It was enlightening and a good laugh. Mostly the discussion was around the perceptions of innovation (epiphany, genious, etc.) versus the historical reality (lots of sweat, hard work, and collaboration). I recommend you see [...]

Posted: May 25th, 2007 under Culture Consumed, Design, Life.
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