pinocchio1During the 1980’s I participated in several years of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) training and, among other useful skills, learned how to tell when people were lying.  Tapping into the powers of observation, I am able to discern, with great accuracy, whether the check is in the mail or not. Read more

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hard_drive_clockBigger hard drives, of course, means bigger messes.  It doesn’t seem that my own memory is what it used to be.  Yet, as the hard drives get bigger I keep trying to enforce my own personal lack of organization on ever bigger drives.  How do you keep track of what is on your new, huge, hard drive? Read more

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dvorak-keyboardImagine that you walk to work.  Each day you could take the route which meanders over sixteen miles of winding roads, or you could take the short-cut, which delivers you directly to your place of employment in one mile.  Which route would you take most often? Read more

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dogs-best-friendMoe’s Question: Dogs best friend, Moe, asks question 1) If I really wanted to experience being awake could I?…in other words am I choosing at some level to keep sleep walking?
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jason-and-kidAs of last night I have a new favorite movie.  The only way it could be more surprising is if it had subtitles, I don’t care for subtitles.  I turned on the TV, and there the movie was.  It is in black and white, it was made in 1965, how old were you in 65?  No need to answer.

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six-day-experienceBack in the old est days (the est training was a grueling, delicious, personal growth seminar created by Werner Erhard which promised transformation in two weekends to its participants) Werner developed an advanced seminar called The Six Day.  Held in New York and California, The Six Day went 24-6, twenty-four hours a day for six days. If you started to doze off during the long lectures in a tightly packed course room with 99 other participants, you would get up from your chair and stand at the side of the room while holding a log above your head.  These logs, conveniently lined along both sides of the room, where used to ensure you stayed awake while confronting coma inducing self realizations.  This was intense stuff.

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