Peter Stang, Organic Lego Builder Extraordinaire

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Super seminar speaker last week; Peter Stang from Utah. Highlights included his suggestion for helping one to see in 3-D, that was, besides using models, to ‘crack open a nice bottle of scotch… or a few glasses of wine would help as well.” And when describing ‘why’ he does the research he [...]

Posted at 5:57 pm on May 6, 2006 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Chemistry | read on

Because I’m hoping this will be a better waste of time than freecell….

It seems a universal law of (my) life that time will be wasted. So why not waste it in some semi-productive fashion like keeping a blog? Eckhart Tolle in The Power of Now urges me not “to equate thinking with Being and identity with thinking” (15) and yet I will still insist that [...]

Posted at 1:28 am on May 6, 2006 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Uncategorized | read on

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Phaedrus had once called metaphysics "the high country of the mind" – an analogy to the high country of mountain climbing.  It takes a lot of effort to get there and more effort when you arrive, but unless you can make the journey you are confined to one valley of thought all your life. – Robert Pirsig

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