You’d think that knowing I have a couple of months off every year that I’d be able to make a few plans. Maybe go on a trip somewhere. Maybe bang out a couple more chapters on that never ending novel. Maybe go out and take a few pictures of this or that and tweak them in Photoshop and Lightroom. Maybe do a bit of marketing and see about getting some Clients so I won’t have to bother going back to work. But no. Like out of work guys throughout the ages I have done nothing productive, well, pretty close to…
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Keep The Change
Steve Dublanica wrote one of my favorite blogger-makes-good books called Waiter Rant, in which he tells the world what he thinks about restuarants and the dinning public at large. He lived and died by how much he was tipped-and he hated people who didn’t tip, much as an Assembly Line Portrait Photographer hates people who don’t buy. In Keep The Change, Steve ventures into the universe of tipping. Being a poor schmuck myself, my own tipping activities are limited to restuarants with wait staff and my semi-annual haircut. And I’ll be honest, I’d rather not tip the random woman at…
Beer Is Proof That God Loves Us
Here is the tale of one man’s love for his favorite beverage: Beer. From it’s humble beginnings as everyone’s everyday drink, to it’s latest mutations into 32 per cent proof hard core booze, Charles Bamforth explains why beer is the best of all the alcohols. I’m not a drinking man, not even beer. But I am a reader and Beer Is Proof That God Loves Us is a good read. Charles tells a loving story of beer, often mentioning beers of the world that I have never heard of. He tells how all beers are now owned by one or two…
Shop Class as Soulcraft
The story of a philosopher who seems a bit surprised that there are so few job openings at the Big Philosophy Companies and ends up becoming an electrician instead. After discovering that being an electrician is not really his calling, he moves on to being a motor cycle mechanic. But he never gives up his college training of being a philosopher. Matthew B Crawford fills all of his anecdotes with small asides of the great thinkers and uses as dry and technical a writing style as any college textbook. Shop class is mentioned only in passing and I don’t…