The Silent Desert

The iPod is just another vessel to transport the musical juice that keeps us going. Take aurally and feel refreshed.

White House Black Market

It is said that you cannot put a price tag on your health. Yet as anyone in the healthcare industry knows, you can most certainly put a price tag on a service rendered to restore health. In fact, there are thousands of medical treatment procedures that have been categorized, coded, grouped, and assigned a price.

Since the cost to restore a person's health has risen dramatically in recent years, it should follow that the value of our health has risen in proportion. What do you think? Do you feel like your life has increased in value to keep pace with medical expenses? Or are we handing a disproportionate amount of wealth over to the healthcare machine? The correlation is a bit of a stretch, but the point is, the freedom to be healthy probably shouldn't cost so much. "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

On the bright side, we finally found the Weapons of Mass Destruction. They were buried in the U.S. Economy.

Spider

I thought it odd when my older co-worker revealed to me his straight-forward approach to Spider Solitaire. He just starts it up and plays the cards as dealt. He doesn't surf for a more ideal opening hand the way I do. This is an intelligent man... surely he must be aware that some initial setups are easier to work with than others? If the objective is to complete the game, why would anyone settle for less than optimal? Does he enjoy the challenge of working with the first set, even when alternatives are just a click away? He then informs me that he doesn't get hints for available moves. I realize that I'm dealing with a true masochist, and wonder how much work I can pass along before he implodes.

Odd gen gap.

We don't need no stinkin' structure

Forget the hierarchy. No need for folder trees. The content management 'system' consists of tag and search, tag and search. Throw it all in a heap... it's ok... Google will liberate thee from thy burden of organization. Forget where you put it and free your mind for other things. The bookish will yield as the artsy take the floorspace.