I’m not the Smartest; but I am determined, I’m curious, and I’ll try solutions from other domains or from the Blue itself. I’m not Confident; but I’m humble, and I listen, and I learn. I’m not Accomplished; but I’ve taken risks, and I’ve explored, and I’ve experienced, and I’ve created. I’m not an Expert; but I study, and I adapt, and I practice, and I appreciate, and I hone my Craft. I’m not yet ashes; I refuse to be dust.

Runkeeper is a Boston Baby, one of our darlings in the local tech community. Their philosophy is about the love of running, that it can be fun for anyone at any skill level (hey I’m only at 5k myself). It’s about motivation and maintaining the long run (see my pun?)…

I’m re-reading John Boyd’s The Last Starship from Earth, and an interesting scenario pops up in the middle. The character, a brilliant mathematics student named Haldane IV, is under investigation and trial. One of the jurors / investigators is a leader in the State’s Department of Sociology, and he is…

“There’s a weird intellectual pleasure in exploring the odd, the offbeat, and the arcane. It reminds me of when I was doing historical research for the novel The Difference Engine, set in the nineteenth century. You start the process by paging through the Official History. Then you dig back farther into the stuff that the official history mandarins merely footnote. There you find a reference to something that almost no authority is willing to cite. Then dig down just one more layer and: Whoa!”