http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/ Copyright 2006 Sat, 14 Jan 2006 07:10:03 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss We had a little adventure in the wee hours and are waiting for first light to show what last night's storm left us. For certain, our heavy board across the creek is no longer there. How the dog got across... http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/cant_get_here_from_there.html http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/cant_get_here_from_there.html Sat, 14 Jan 2006 07:10:03 -0500 So I'm off soon to spend three hours with one home health patient. Well, not exactly: a half hour with the patient, two and a half with the paperwork and the drive there and back. I dunno. I think maybe... http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/fragmented_friday.html http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/fragmented_friday.html Fri, 13 Jan 2006 06:02:52 -0500 I'm lurching along with the manuscript editing, which is the relatively easy part, and really fumbling with how to simultaneously work on what comes next: finding reviewers and possibly a paid editor, deciding about book size, paper type, font and... http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/as_if_i_knew_1.html http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/as_if_i_knew_1.html Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:22:18 -0500 Of course I was delighted to unwrap the heavy Christmas gift, obviously a book of some density. And I was especially glad to open it up at random pages there amidst the wrapping paper and see the wonderful glossy images... http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/an_oikos_of_relationship.html http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/an_oikos_of_relationship.html Thu, 12 Jan 2006 06:07:22 -0500 I have to be in Roanoke by 8:00 for an obligatory keep-my-license all-day program today. Worst part is, the topic is actually something useful so I can't feign attention. I need every word of it. This is my first such... http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/continuing_fred_1.html http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/continuing_fred_1.html Wed, 11 Jan 2006 06:02:59 -0500 I introduced Tsuga in the Foreword (and what I think should actually be called the Preface) to the book, but then discovered there were no entries at all about him! There needs to be at least a few, and... http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/alpha_male_bonding_day_nine_2.html http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/alpha_male_bonding_day_nine_2.html Tue, 10 Jan 2006 05:08:33 -0500 I hold language in high regard, but as I look through these assorted pieces of this opus (or is it corpus?) of words, I see I have been rather cavalier about grammar and mechanics. It is time to pay the... http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/em_dash_it_all.html http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/em_dash_it_all.html Mon, 09 Jan 2006 09:27:46 -0500 What do you see out your window? How far does your gaze travel before it rests on sky clouds trees traffic passersby buildings mountains? Or do you pay any attention at all to outer space beyond your windowsill? If you... http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/room_with_a_view_2.html http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/room_with_a_view_2.html Mon, 09 Jan 2006 06:25:06 -0500 Small problem in FragmentsLand, but a niggling one: people who use bloglines or other feedreaders to access Fragments think I haven't updated since the last rebuild (that happened while I was in St. Louis) on December 17. Apparently its a... http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/havent_got_time_for_the_pain_1.html http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/havent_got_time_for_the_pain_1.html Mon, 09 Jan 2006 05:42:07 -0500 Some of you have hung around Fragments long enough to see several surges of zeal toward the prospects of some day putting together a book. Those tides have ebbed and flowed, then turned to calm seas and slack sails when... http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/going_where_the_wind_blows.html http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/going_where_the_wind_blows.html Sun, 08 Jan 2006 09:31:26 -0500 Even the GOV has finally suggested that more needs doing on the individual and community level to prepare for possible breakdown in distribution of the things we need every day. But they don't tell us any of the 'how' to... http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/pantry_prep.html http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/pantry_prep.html Sat, 07 Jan 2006 08:12:08 -0500 My day job: After one week, I guess it's going fairly well, as these things go. I am remembering both why I was glad I left healthcare and why I missed it. I am remembering the contrast between a work-mind... http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/one_week_anniversary.html http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/one_week_anniversary.html Fri, 06 Jan 2006 06:35:50 -0500 ...to a computer near you. I used to look forward to the 'new car season' when the showrooms would pull the shrouds from the car-shaped forms underneath and we would oooh and aaaahh at the new and daring tail fins... http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/coming_eventually.html http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/coming_eventually.html Fri, 06 Jan 2006 04:47:13 -0500 With the certainty that my brain's memory might fade over the years, I archive the trivial events of our days to the memory of my computer. Several years ago, I started keeping a simple word processor table, four cells... http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/keeping_the_calendar.html http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/keeping_the_calendar.html Thu, 05 Jan 2006 07:50:49 -0500 "Now we are faced with the global oil-production peak. The best estimates of when this will actually happen have been somewhere between now and 2010." James Howard Kunstler (writing in Rolling Stone) holds little optimism that we have what it... http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/jiminy_cricket_syndrome.html http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/fragments/2006/01/jiminy_cricket_syndrome.html Thu, 05 Jan 2006 06:23:34 -0500