One of the things about my communications degree that has troubled me in my previous classes is the constant talk about communication and power, communication as power. It seems to rob the field of the sense of altruism that I and some of my fellow students wish and feel it should have. Well, Chapter 2 … Continue reading Questions of Power
A trip to the dog park
I found a news story today, from Aug. 22, 2014 about the Waggin' Trail Park, but it wasn't until about a week ago that I personally discovered the park and it wasn't until New Year's Day that we actually took our dog Rocky to try the park out. You might not know what a boon … Continue reading A trip to the dog park
A Focus on Focus
This post is intended to go up at the very beginning of the new year. Don't mistake it for anything like a New Year's Resolution: I have never been one for setting resolutions (If you check the blog from January 1, 2014, you will see that is an exact quote). I said last year on … Continue reading A Focus on Focus
2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,300 times in 2014. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people. Click here to … Continue reading 2014 in review
Difference Matters
I am trying another of my text books for my upcoming course tonight. This one reads better. It also seems to be hitting some themes that I recall from my previous class of organizational communication. Let's start with the below example: Due to socialization, children will accept social identity categories as real and natural. Yet, they … Continue reading Difference Matters
Where We Stand — which stable did you enter?
A new year is fast approaching, and with it, a new semester of my Master's program. Since I don't have time to read like I want to during the class, I try to get my textbooks ahead of time and read what I can before class, to help me immerse in the material better during … Continue reading Where We Stand — which stable did you enter?
Snow comes to Toontown Rewritten
Okay, something a little interesting and fun today. A Pictorial of winter scenes in Toontown Rewritten. The original Toontown had a lot of fund holiday backgrounds for the various holidays of the year, which Rewritten is seeking to emulate, but Rewritten has also done some new things not previously seen. Such are the scenes below … Continue reading Snow comes to Toontown Rewritten
Contrasting quotes — Good intentions awry
Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings. --Nelson Mandela There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want, merely because you think it would be good for him. --Robert A. Heinlein … Continue reading Contrasting quotes — Good intentions awry
Musical trends
We have listened to a lot of Christmas music over the past couple of months. I have performed a lot of it it too. In that time certain elements have become obvious to the current performance of Christmas music. For one thing, in many places the performance of the traditional carols are fading away. The … Continue reading Musical trends
A gaze into the (energy) future
As I write this post, in advance, on Christmas Eve, for publication on the day after Christmas, it will be interesting to see if anything has changed to negate the timeliness of the comments I am making about what I am thinking. I wrote a blog some time ago about the dropping gasoline prices, and … Continue reading A gaze into the (energy) future
At The Rainbow 