Tap. . . Tap. . . Is This Thing On?

Greetings, loyal rss aggregators, assorted robots and extremely dedicated readers. After a summer hiatus, this blog awakens refreshed. Sure, blogging is so passé that it’s cast as a quaint, dated practice in Julie and Julia but that won’t stop me. During the summer’s silence, time pushed me past a few milestones.  I’m not normally given …

A Few Thoughts on Things, Equipment, Technologies (With Heidegger)

I know it’s quiet around here. I’ve been on the road and catching up. It might ramp back up as I am now getting back into writing (which in my case always begets more writing). — I’m currently wrapping up the draft of my “Is Music a Thing” chapter and dealing with smart questions posed …

A Few Words in Praise of Public Health

Now that h1n1 has degenerated from a worldwide crisis to a party favor, people have been complaining about how various public health authorities handled the crisis, when the flu turned out to be a regular flu. While I’m certainly not keen on the paranoid behavior of Japanese bureaucrats who effectively shut down the Society for …