Monthly Archives: February 2008

The Importance of Being Interrupted

With apolo­gies to Oscar Wilde, I thought I’d jot down a few thoughts on try­ing to do men­tally dif­fi­cult things in small highly seg­mented blocks of time. Some agile devo­tees advo­cate a term called Rad­i­cal Col­lo­ca­tion which essen­tially boils down to stick­ing an entire team in a sin­gle room for the length of the project. …

February 28, 2008 – 10:44 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming, Technology | Comments (3)

Thoughts on Mythology

I’ve been lis­ten­ing to Joseph Campbell’s The East­ern Way in the car and it reminds me of how much I love mythol­ogy, the sto­ries and anec­dotes that go along with myths, what their effects are on our cul­ture and way of life. The first tape is a com­par­i­son of the West­ern and East­ern mytho­log­i­cal struc­tures, …

February 20, 2008 – 8:44 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Mythology, Random | Comments (1)

Gardening

If you’re fol­low­ing along at home, it’s time to plant that early spring gar­den here in the Metroplex.

February 12, 2008 – 6:47 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Gardening | Comments (0)

My Mind On A Leash

I’ve been med­i­tat­ing for 3 days now and even in that short period of time, I’ve come to real­ize how dif­fi­cult it is to do well. As I walked Scooter Wednes­day night, it occurred to me that my con­scious­ness is not unlike an untrained dog on a leash. If you have a dog, you know …

February 8, 2008 – 7:11 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Epiphany | Comments (0)

Random Update

Haven’t been writ­ing much of late, not here, not else­where and part of that is lack of desire and part of it is lack of energy. The new job con­tin­ues and I’m down to feel­ing like the vil­lage idiot 3 out of 5 days instead of 5 out of 5. That’s an improve­ment but not …

February 4, 2008 – 9:55 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (1)