Our culture has a serious fixation with self. “We must love ourselves in order to be happy”, so we say. Now, there’s a certain truth to the fact that if we don’t accept ourselves we’re generally pretty miserable. But on … Continue reading
A Riddle What do these descriptions have in common? Struck with pace inside the intersection of post and bar Contains no salt Deploys coherent packages of software functionality as loosely coupled, coarse-grained services Answer? . . . . . . … Continue reading
Seen on an elevator door… And practically nowhere else. It’s a weird phrase. What does it even mean? I can understand it’s meaning for a deck of cards. I can envision an elderly English gentleman using it as a synonym … Continue reading
Words Matter Words are important. If they don’t go so far as to limit what and how we think, at the very least they direct our thoughts. The simple use of single word can carry a lot of subtle and hidden meaning. … Continue reading
People are voracious. Whatever we have is, well, not quite good enough. I see this in our use of language, where we take words with exceptional meaning and apply them to the ordinary. Awesome! Righteous! Afterwards, we have to coin … Continue reading
If you go to dictionary.com or some other fancy site, they’re liable to tell you that meta comes from Greek and means ‘beside’, or something like that. If you surf the web you’ll generally gather the impression that attaching meta … Continue reading
I think many discussions about theology hit the rocks because of the sneaky divergence of terms. I’m talking about the phenomenon where two people start arguing about two vastly different things in the same discussion. Why does this happen? Often it happens … Continue reading