Life in the Lego Garden

from The Brick Testament

What are you doing?

bring your brain on-line

. . . the human brain can be visualized as a complex interacting network that relies on nodes to efficiently convey information from place to place. Very few jumps are necessary to connect any two nodes . . .

"This so-called 'small world' property allows for the most efficient connectivity," said Dante Chialvo, a physiologist at Northwestern University. Other networks -- social and biochemical -- rely on the same principle.

suddenly it all makes sense

It's time for an upgrade to wizmical web 2.0

This blog remains as a more traditional part of the ever-expanding fuzzy network of wizzy websites.

I've also added some new venues for quicker and easier posting, joined some "social" networks so I can have more friends, and generally emerged from the dinosaur age.

the Atlantean paradigm

As stated in scripture, the "Holy City / New Jerusalem" is built of cubits.

thus spoke vonnegut

"A key to great writing, he added, is to never use semi-colons. What are they good for? What are you supposed to do with them? You're reading along, and then suddenly, there it is. What does it mean? All semi-colons do is suggest you've been to college.

Make sure, he added, that your reader is having a good time. Get to the who, when, where, what right away, so the reader knows what is going on.

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Live one day at a time. Say 'if this isn't nice, I don't know what is!'

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

The greatest peace, Vonnegut wraps up, comes from the knowledge that I have enough. Joe Heller told me that.

I began writing because I found myself possessed. I looked at what I wrote and I said 'How the hell did I do that?'

We may all be possessed. I hope so."

- Kurt Vonnegut , 11/11/22 - 4/11/07

voluntary simplicity

"I think like an alcoholic bottoms out on alcohol, consumers have started to bottom out on consumerism. We had a free conference at USC recently for Seeds of Simplicity, a voluntary simplicity movement group...people were lined up outside to get in. There’s a great hunger for this. People find themselves working two jobs, trying to make more money; chasing what they feel is their dream. Then they finally sit down one day and say, “What is this dream? Wait a minute! What I’m working harder for is a second home, a third DVD player, a third car...But that isn’t what I really want.” What people really want is to spend more time with their family, to spend more time painting or playing the flute or whatever it is that brings them joy. People are getting fed up with the orgy of consumerism, and they try to do less. That’s the great thing about the voluntary simplicity movement: All are welcome." - Ed Begley, Jr.