Tag Archives: little bit

The Time Traveler and Charlie Chaplin

There are few things I love better than people looking at mundane images and deciding that something amazing has been captured. I really liked that whole Face on Mars business and the Woman on Mars photo really does look like a woman. So I have to be impressed with this little bit of video showing …

October 28, 2010 – 11:06 am | By Descartes | Posted in random thoughts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Trading Almonds for Fritos

Not long ago I read Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted.  This is a peppy little book with an agenda, to get the reader-in this case me-to stop poisoning himself and start eating foods that will heal what ails him.  At one …

October 20, 2010 – 9:35 pm | By Descartes | Posted in food, random thoughts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

The Language of Trust

In The Post-Trust Era no one believes anything anyone says-not at first anyway.  The reasons are simple, we are constantly being lied to about how New, Improved, and Updated everything we buy is. You want to believe that you are getting a good deal, you want to trust people, but you know that everyone wants …

August 6, 2010 – 4:56 pm | By Descartes | Posted in book review | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Glasses

I’ve gone almost fifty years without glasses.  I once had an employee at the DMV ask me if I were wearing contact lenses because she didn’t believe my eyesight was that good.  But now time has caught up to me and my eyesight has started to bail on me. I choose a boring set of …

July 19, 2010 – 12:46 am | By Descartes | Posted in random thoughts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)