The extraordinary blog Synthesthete turned me on to this fun right brain, left brain test. You can take it too! My results? Very curious, passionate, understanding, and intellectual (ha!) Not so stable, traditional, reserved, or conscientious (wait a minute!) On a different scale, my results were right brain dominance 10, left brain dominance 7. Because …
Clean Your Floor like the Jetsons: I finally gave in and invested in the Neato XV-11 All Floor Robotic Vacuum System. I’ve had it for three weeks. It’s amazing. Aside from the obvious joy of having a ROBOT at your house, it actually does a good job of cleaning a room while you’re not looking. …
Thanks to Carol O’Hare, the Friends of the Morgan Hill Library, and the Association of American University Women for hosting this Silicon Valley Reads event at Morgan Hill Public Library. Thanks to Marty Cheek for videotaping the event. This video includes a discussion of The Year of Fog, along with a Q&A.
A story has no beginning and no end. Arbitrarily one chooses the moment from which to look back or from which to look ahead