Category Archives: Life, the Universe and Everything

Dude… maybe it’s the cold meds again, but I was listening to the Miss ‘murrica host guy read off comments from the other contestants about the one they named Miss Congeniality… and I swear I heard him say that one … Continue reading → Continue reading →

All the land surface of Trantor, 75,000,000 square miles in extent, was a single city. The population, at its height, was well in excess of forty billions. This enormous population was devoted almost entirely to the administrative necessities of Empire, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction….The chain reaction of evil–hate … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Christmas has come and gone again, and now it’s back to the salt mines for the lot of ye. Well… not quite… I am presently in my own salt mine, and I can hear the echo of my voice bouncing … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It never fails. If it’s Christmas time, then I must go out of town. At least, this time it’s a quick trip… up to Boston (Natick, actually) and back. I’m only spending tonight there, but have meetings all afternoon today, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

…I was an 18-year-old attendee of the University of Maine, sharing a dorm room with some jock I had no interest in talking to about much of anything (a feeling that was reciprocated in kind). I had only just set … Continue reading → Continue reading →