We have very little of his work today. Leonardo finished only a few of his paintings. He left many unfinished because he thought they were not perfect. No one in his life time knew how great Leonardo was. We now believe, however, that he was one of the cleverest men that the world ...
In honor of The Delta Pearl duology, this time we have airships. The title of book-2 is The Geostrophic Pearl. It will be hard to avoid giving spoilers to book-1 if I go into detail, but a steampunk airship comes into the story. Once again, this post does double …More ...
The first season made a huge splash because none of us expected it to be anywhere near as good as it was because we’ve sadly had to get accustomed to the TV-budget versions of heroes where nearly all of their comic book storylines are adapted and changed. (I’ve come to call it “...
your neighbor” portion. I spent most of the sermon wondering how there could possibly be a God, if he just sits around and does nothing unless we pray enough, after the pastor said we should “pray for peace”. So possibly the entire outing was a failure. But still. I left the ...
The way we looked at the image in the book, how the sun seemed to go red. How we talked for weeks, but kept coming back, hungry for it—if we prepped, if we studied, we could do so much more. Why shouldn’t we try to summon familiars? Somewhere is a lion-headed dog with a ...
As the technology becomes more sophisticated, we can expect better digital sketching experiences. WACOM, a graphic tablet manufacturer, invites sketchers to tag their creations on Twitter with the #madewithwacom hash tag. Serendipity: Happy Accidents From Unfinished Strokes...
I was 18 and at work in a large chain bookstore that closed at midnight. We had a one-way window overlooking the office onto the cafe in the store (about 100' away) when my manager and I both see a man-sized shape run from left to right across the field of visio...
A. The writer often leaves a book unfinished. B. The writer was once caught out for telling lies. C. The writer often reads the end of a book first before finishing the story. D. The writer likes Barack Obama from the very beginning. 【5】What do you think of the author? A. Thoug...
My research included analysing Susan Sontag’s book Regarding the Pain of Others. I am paraphrasing a lot here, but one of her key points was that we need to be a very specific distance from suffering to feel true empathy – close enough that we can imagine it is us and far enough tha...
I was a little bit jealous of the situation - that I didn't have the opportunity to be the singer that I was before I started [in] the group. I had to really take a step back and say, "This is about being in a group. It's no longer the I, it's the we." R...