Snippets for the Multitasking
I just love people. They're the strangest folks I know. I mean really, the things we find to do with our energies is so counterintuitive if this whole show is only about survival. Take StoneFridge, for instance. But then again, it was constructed at the edge of Los Alamos, so perhaps there is some survival value to the effort, after all. Thanks for link to Pratie Place, always a source for the wonderfully strange things that people do and say.
I dunno. It sounds good. But it's from the Great Satan of Software, at least according to some. Check out Windows Defender.
And while I am wearing my writing-about-writers writing hat, let me suggest you check out "Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing: An Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle from the New York Times, Writers on Writing Series." My favorite is rule #10: Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.
Grist Magazine is running a multipart series on Poverty and the Environment that looks like a good investment in time as a world citizen informed-type person.
Comments
Regarding the selling of public land...
1. It's a dumb idea. Even though the dollar value of private land is higher than public land, it is probably not in society's best interest to reduce public land if it means a reduction in natural areas.
2. I'm not the least bit surprised by the suggestion. As population grows and increases the price of the fixed supply of land then people will increasingly clamour for public land. Natural areas have been and will be under attack forever. Of course, these misguided and unsustainable short term efforts should be defeated, but look who's making these decisions...people. And "hell is other people".
So, I wouldn't be surprised to see our natural areas whittled away over time during periods of short term duress leaving nothing for the future.
Posted by: Jim | February 16, 2006 10:07 AM
Like one of the wise old farmers up here told me recently "once ya' sell {the land}ya' don't get it back."
Posted by: Dave | February 16, 2006 3:26 PM