comedy
MaV-Eric in Davos
Do you find you never have enough time on your hands? I am always busy, especially now that credit is crunchier than burnt toast with a topping of unbuttered peanuts from a jar that had […]
Month: January 2009
Essays & Opinion
High Hopes for Boreama
US President Barack Obama was inaugurated this week. President of the USA is an unusual job. There are not many jobs where they throw you a really big party on your first day. I guess […]
Essays & Opinion
Making Work for Ourselves (Part Two)
In part one, I imagined a scenario where one hundred people, selected at random, are stranded on a desert island. They have no hope of escape, but they can survive indefinitely thanks to the resources […]
Essays & Opinion
Making Work for Ourselves (Part One)
Suppose that you and ninety-nine other people are stranded on a desert island. You are lucky, in that the island has all the natural resources – water, food, materials to build shelter – that you […]
Audio
Going Around in Circles
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/halfthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/halfthoughtsGoingAroundInCircles.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (3.3MB) It is a new year. What is so new about it? Anyone born before 2008 will have been here before, at least on a cosmic scale. We […]