MY last post (just below) engendered a couple very good comments. Part of today’s post is (in a small way) a sort of thanks to these two writers in that they have helped me to coalesce my thoughts on the issue I hoped to get across. My original post devolved around the issue whether all [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2010
skills…
November 28, 2010
I was taking a road trip last week, and got a chance to try out using GPS as a ‘map replacement’. I was quite impressed, and considering how much time I have spent with maps and compasses, I found this new technology to be a real labor saver… But then I started thinking about it…
my virtual guitar amps…
November 20, 2010
While I have a few music apps to play with (see the previous post…), of greater importance to me is the fact that I have a variety of guitar ‘rigs’ to use on my iPad. First off, if you are interested in doing something like this, you need to consider how you will be getting [...]
iPad music apps…
November 18, 2010
For the last month I have seen a growing number of coming to this site because they were searching for iPad information. I get people coming here who want information about iPad apps, reviews, and criticisms related to ‘Getting Things Done’ (GTD), music, and some comparatively arcane topics (printing from an iPad, setting up Gmail, [...]
enclaves
November 16, 2010
I was considering writing a post about some of the more ‘obvious’ strange things in political geography, and the topic of enclaves came to me. There are certainly plenty of oddities related to this concept. Regarding nation states, there is Lesotho (inside South Africa), which along with Swaziland has caught my interest going back to [...]
the plot thickens in Central America…
November 14, 2010
My post about irredentism alluded to what looked like a rather strange point of conflict between the nations of Costa Rica and Nicaragua. From what I could gather, this armed incursion resulted in no deaths (I would hope), and that there are some long standing issues to resolve between these two Central American countries. Imagine [...]
irredentism
November 11, 2010
I have been getting a lot of searched on this blog for a small post I put up (6 months ago) called geographical oddities. I presented a few of the many strange and interesting places and related occurrences I have learned about over the years. One aspect of this post was to quickly examine the [...]
big countries and small countries
November 8, 2010
A couple years ago I was teaching in a boy’s middle school in a small city in South Korea (Gimje). Part of my job as an English teacher was to conduct some one-on-one ‘lessons with the English staff (native Koreans). This was supposed to be a chance for these language teachers to hone their speaking [...]
in the eye of the beholder…
November 7, 2010
I suppose that this isn’t that important a topic, but over the years I have noticed a few things worth mentioning with regard to aesthetics. If you consider what can now be called the canons of classical painting, almost everyone I have ever talked to seems to vastly prefer the works of the 19th century [...]
I have some catching up to do…
November 6, 2010
As a randomly occurring event, I sometimes find myself with too much on my plate. Over the years I have found myself in the situation where I was concurrently reading over 25 books at the same time (such is the stuff of my nightmares…). Lately I have found that I am in a comparable situation. [...]
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