Starting up again after the summer… even if it is still hot enough to sit outside on the balcony on this, the last day of the holiday proper. Tomorrow is Saturday, and the last weekend before it is back to work on Monday. For all of July I’ve hardly done a thing. Some reading, a little bit of news and sports, and for the last three or four days gently getting back online. And today the laptop got booted up again, and here I am sitting outside in the shade trying to arrange and structure various thoughts and ideas from the summer.
Four main themes in the posts to come – probably mixed, but maybe a bit split up if things work out (and from an IT standpoint they’re not right now, the editor won’t start without an online connection to verify my account so this is good old MS Word doing the job for now).
- Media and content – just finished reading Watchmen, currently almost done with volume 1 of Crying Freeman, saw Pirates of The Caribbean – Dead Mans Chest last night
- World and politics – not to much, this is not the place for it, but some words on a picture of Israeli girls writing messages on the bombs for Lebanon and the “new” al-Qaida “dude” (Adam Gadahn)
- Art and culture – Gaarder and Ballard, PlayMusicMagazine.com, Berman on NYC, Khaldun on civilization, Hirst redone
- Mind and perception – Blink, SciAm Mind, some memories from the corporate retreat and NLP
So on that mixed and ambitious statement of intent – I guess it is time to get to the matters at hand and put some of my summer thoughts out there. Most likely there will be a large number of smaller post over the weekend, and then some follow-up and longer thoughts during next week.
