Thoughts on the World

Compassion for Human and Non-human Animals

“Until there is enough food for every human to eat, until people aren’t starving, people should be our focus.” — Not attributed

Let’s start with a simple truth: Our capacity for compassion is not of a finite quantity; we can care…

On making, “What Came Before”

In February of last year, I received an email from a wonderful friend of mine, Kari Nienstedt, Arizona’s State Director for the Humane Society of the United States. She was connecting me to the also wonderful Bruce Friedrich of Farm Sanctuary in an effort to help me share my…

Why it isn’t funny: Joking About Animal Welfare

I thought I would take a minute to bring into clear focus the reasons behind why making jokes about veganism, vegetarianism, and animal activism isn’t funny. Now, I recognize that I may come off as a bit of a wet blanket here, but the facts of the…

Facebook Invite Friends — Check All In One Click

One of the annoying things about Facebook, when managing pages, events and the like, is Facebook’s invite approach. Having to click every friend individually and manually, doesn’t prevent me from doing it, it simply makes it annoying. So, to get…

Mac OSX Lion — Output Sound to Multiple Devices

While setting up for a recent home recording session, I remembered that during a previous one, I found the constant need to switch between audio outputs in Adobe Audition — one for while recording, the other for listening, frustrating. It was…

A Healing Leap: Why skydiving should be at the top of your list

Every once in a while you experience something truly extraordinary; something that gets inside you and ignites you inexplicably. These are the experiences that make life worth living, the work worth doing and the rest…

Think you’re a rational thinker? Think again. An interview with Dan Ariely

What if you could predict the nature of someone’s irrationality? What if you could leverage that ability to produce expected results? No, I’m not talking about about super human powers, though you may…