http://attic.secretstaircase.com ...behind the fraying tapestry, the portrait eyes they guide you... Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:18:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently visited the Schulz museum and had a wonderful/sad time reading all the tributes and homages to Peanuts and to "Sparky." Subsequently leafing through back issues of Newsweek and found an article claiming Schulz had feet of clay--that he wasn't as downtrodden as he'd led the world to believe. ... http://attic.secretstaircase.com/?p=20 The paranoia has been ebbing lately, so I feel less inspired to spew into the interether. Is it exhaustion? Simple awareness that it is larger than any of us can control? Affirmation of, and even glorying in, the notion of being so Known in the universe? The mind boggles. Today is ... http://attic.secretstaircase.com/?p=19 Does one have a moral obligation to contribute to the grand debate? http://attic.secretstaircase.com/?p=18 It costs $4 to print a boarding pass, but $1 to print any other kind of document in the "Business Center" in the hotel I recently visited. This despite the fact that my documents were all neatly bundled into one travel-handy PDF, and the strain on the printer, and on ... http://attic.secretstaircase.com/?p=16 Question for hearing folks: ever test to see if you can hear a range of sounds more like a youngster or a geezer? Apparently your ability to hear higher tones erodes with age. My upper end is more in the g-range, though theoretically I'm not yet there chronologically. Could it ... http://attic.secretstaircase.com/?p=15 Looking back on what I've written here (which is really not much; see below) I wonder where it will all end. If we pull the plug, Alexandria goes dark. I have so many paper books already, but the silverfish are coming. My Sony eReader (probably will pull some more spam ... http://attic.secretstaircase.com/?p=14 I'm profoundly amibivalent about blogs. On the one hand, our whole lives are out there for everyone to see, record, capture, share, remix, steal. So, why not be empowered and create your own version of yourself rather than letting the credit bureau, the TSA, and amazon do it for you? ... http://attic.secretstaircase.com/?p=13 Flying recently I was stopped to have my bag searched. Nothing was found, but the TSA person wrote my name down on a List. Why? What is this List for? I was too cowed to ask. Mooooooooo. http://attic.secretstaircase.com/?p=12 "We are not mining or trawling through the personal lives of innocent Americans" says our President. I for one am skeptical, not only of this assertion, but that Bush is casually familiar with the term "mining" used in a database context. Perhaps I underestimate his techno-literacy, but I think much ... http://attic.secretstaircase.com/?p=11 My hero. http://attic.secretstaircase.com/?p=10