Backward Mutters

  • Prince Caspian is a Maritan

    I’ve already shared my disappointment in the Disney Prince Caspian debacle. So, I’ll not bore you with more harrumphing. I’m going to watch the movie with the High Schoolers on Sunday, and we’re going to talk a little about it afterward. The reason to talk about it is that a…

  • Technology and Communication

    Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been considering technology and its effect on individuals. I’ve thought about how email has made communication easier and yet potentially more volatile and sinful. Read Tim Keller’s and David Powlison’s article here. I’ve also been thinking a little about how Twitter shapes your…

  • Consider this from the Sweet Dropper

    The term $1 trillion has been floating around lately. Consider this: If you spent a $1 million per day, every day from the birth of Christ, in 2009 you’d only be about 3/4 of the way to a trillion. If you got $1 every second, it would take almost 32,000…

  • Going Nomad

    I’m going “nomad”. That is, I’m going to stop using Outlook for my email, calendar, to lists, and instead I’m going with iGoogle. Dude, ain’t that heavy?

  • It All Depends on You?

    In Gladwell’s account, individual traits play a smaller role in explaining success while social circumstances play a larger one. As he told Zengerle, “I am explicitly turning my back on, I think, these kind of empty models that say, you know, you can be whatever you want to be. Well,…