http://socialvoice.liveworld.com/blog/Things-Blog-Night/275 SocialVoice Community: Recent Topics in Things That Go Blog in the Night en LiveForums Enterprise 4.1.2 (www.liveworld.com) Sat, 25 May 2013 14:17:53 -0700 45 http://socialvoice.liveworld.com/blog-entry/Things-Blog-Night/Certainty-Vs-Curiosity/1100001498 http://socialvoice.liveworld.com/blog-entry/Things-Blog-Night/Certainty-Vs-Curiosity/1100001498 In which I engage in a bit of self-congratulatory speculation about the meaning of a recent Pew Research Center survey. There's been a bit of news Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:00:41 -0700 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:00:41 -0700 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:45:53 -0700 2 dland dland dland 1 311 FaithPoliticsWork/Life http://socialvoice.liveworld.com/blog-entry/Things-Blog-Night/Pain-Space-Time/1100001452 http://socialvoice.liveworld.com/blog-entry/Things-Blog-Night/Pain-Space-Time/1100001452 This week, my family caught an episode of the Discovery Channel's "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking" on the subject of time travel. As it turns Sat, 22 May 2010 09:52:02 -0700 Sat, 22 May 2010 09:52:02 -0700 Sat, 22 May 2010 11:06:38 -0700 2 dland dland dland 1 311 FaithPersonalWork/Life http://socialvoice.liveworld.com/blog-entry/Things-Blog-Night/Fabulous-Mr-Fox/1100001363 http://socialvoice.liveworld.com/blog-entry/Things-Blog-Night/Fabulous-Mr-Fox/1100001363 Tonight, my family enjoyed the new Wes Anderson stop-motion animated feature, "Fantastic Mr. Fox". What a delight! It's a family-friendly adventure, Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:39:41 -0800 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:39:41 -0800 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:41:34 -0800 1 dland dland dland 0 311 Arts_&_Entertainment http://socialvoice.liveworld.com/blog-entry/Things-Blog-Night/Em-Inch-Theyll/1100001304 http://socialvoice.liveworld.com/blog-entry/Things-Blog-Night/Em-Inch-Theyll/1100001304 Since at least 2006, Microsoft has given away free Virtual PC disk images of Windows XP (and eventually Vista), with Internet Explorer 6 (and Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:40:02 -0700 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:40:02 -0700 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:46:48 -0700 1 dland dland dland 0 311 Software_development http://socialvoice.liveworld.com/blog-entry/Things-Blog-Night/Radical-Fundamental-Difference/1100001204 http://socialvoice.liveworld.com/blog-entry/Things-Blog-Night/Radical-Fundamental-Difference/1100001204 This is a long and slightly rambling piece on a couple of ideas: The deep similarity between the seemingly-opposed terms "radical" and "fundamental", Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:08:23 -0700 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:08:23 -0700 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:18:53 -0700 4 dland dland dland 3 311 LanguageUser_Experience http://socialvoice.liveworld.com/blog-entry/Things-Blog-Night/People-Want-Know/1100001168 http://socialvoice.liveworld.com/blog-entry/Things-Blog-Night/People-Want-Know/1100001168 Today in the Google search bar in Firefox, I typed the words "how to", while trying to figure out how to find out what text-encoding is in effect for Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:25:59 -0700 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:25:59 -0700 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:23:48 -0800 3 dland dland dland 2 311 ideasLanguageoutletSocial_Softwaresuccess http://socialvoice.liveworld.com/blog-entry/Things-Blog-Night/Jazz-Club-Etiquette/1100001160 http://socialvoice.liveworld.com/blog-entry/Things-Blog-Night/Jazz-Club-Etiquette/1100001160 It's part of the etiquette of live jazz and blues music to applaud at the end of solos, even as the next one begins or the whole combo kicks in to Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:18:20 -0700 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:18:20 -0700 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:13:37 -0800 4 dland dland dland 3 311 Arts_&_EntertainmentoutletWork/Life http://socialvoice.liveworld.com/blog-entry/Things-Blog-Night/Remembering-Kevin-Takashi/1100001038 http://socialvoice.liveworld.com/blog-entry/Things-Blog-Night/Remembering-Kevin-Takashi/1100001038 Monday, June 22 would have been our first son Kevin's 16th birthday. These two poems, especially Emerson's "Threnody" helped me cope with his death. Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:47:16 -0700 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:47:16 -0700 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:53:39 -0700 3 dland dland dland 2 311 Personal http://socialvoice.liveworld.com/blog-entry/Things-Blog-Night/Catalog-American-Museum/1100000956 http://socialvoice.liveworld.com/blog-entry/Things-Blog-Night/Catalog-American-Museum/1100000956 Item 3234: 63-Note "La Cucaracha" Cylinder (Hirschelbaum 243), Ca. 1953 Beginning with his 1947 15-note rendition of "The Muffin Man", Shlomo Sat, 23 May 2009 19:28:10 -0700 Sat, 23 May 2009 19:28:10 -0700 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:53:53 -0700 4 dland dland dland 3 311 Humor http://socialvoice.liveworld.com/blog-entry/Things-Blog-Night/Quotno-Seen-Comingquot/1100000790 http://socialvoice.liveworld.com/blog-entry/Things-Blog-Night/Quotno-Seen-Comingquot/1100000790 OK, just a quickie today: Over and over, we're told of the current financial crisis, "No one could have seen it coming." I disagree. The 2,000 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:05:44 -0700 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:05:44 -0700 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:54:32 -0700 1 dland dland dland 0 311 HumorPolitics