“What is the ocean,” a character toward the end of Cloud Atlas replies to the charge that he is about to waste his life on a cause that can’t make a difference, “but millions of drops of water?”  It is this idea more than anything else – the interconnectivity that makes life greater than the […]

Brainstorm list for post to put up on my birthday: Have a contest.  Note: be sure you plan ahead, because if you’re trying to think of a contest the night before your birthday that won’t work out. Make a list of great birthday parties throughout history.  Don’t scientists think it was a birthday party gone […]