A few thoughts about how people look at people. [More]

Sometimes people forget that ideals are ideals - goals to be attained, not entitlements to be demanded in defiance of all common sense. [More]

There’s a partial solution in our hands to the ongoing energy crisis that we are overlooking.  Perhaps this is because it’s a little inconvenient, it’s a pretty serious change (but a ridiculously easy one) and the energy savings are fractional – for real impact, it would require almost 100% participation. Are you ready for the idea?  Here it is: Urban Headlight Zones. To wit:  In areas that are already adequately lit by municipal or state fixtures – cities, urban highways, tollways, anyplace that is well-lighted at night (we can even define well-lighted if you want) – elimin... [More]

So it’s been a pretty crazy year for me.   One year ago I was living in North Carolina with my folks.  I’d been in NC for 15 years, and had long since decided to leave.  No offense to my many wonderful friends there, each of whom I love to some degree and for some reason, but it was never my place, I never wanted to be there, and I never felt like I fit in anywhere.  I’d long since decided that I wanted to move back to Kalamazoo and put my roots down there, but had no idea how I was going to make that happen – vague notions of expanding my web design business into a mult... [More]