Category Archives: Just Rants

Remembrance of a Tomorrow

You have a name, A body, a voice, A soul and I Held you, left The dream behind. I will not let Passion escape. No more, never again Will allow sanity To plot my Heart’s course. I want to remember … Continue reading

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Of Mercy Killing and Killing Mercy

The clock is ticking. Chances are Terri Schiavo will be allowed to die in peace. Time flows and minutes and days pile up like autumnal leaves. Chances are time, the great equalizer, will rule above all judges and members of … Continue reading

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Throw the glamour out the window…

It isn’t because I was a bonafide fan of Star Trek TNG that I like Wil Wheaton. I like the guy because he is one of the most candid, warm, down-to-earth, hard working, self-abnegating persons the bestiary of Hollywood has … Continue reading

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Well, talk about signs…

I just read in the news that Reggie Roby died this morning. This just a few weeks after Reggie White died at his home. Both men named Reggie. Both men 43 when they died. Both successful and retired NFL players. … Continue reading

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The view; the other side of the pond…

I just read something funny in the New Yorker magazine; the paper version, mind you, on this week’s edition. It was a commentary about the state of affairs in the European Union titled Pigs Must Play: Does it even include … Continue reading

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About immortality…

Ray Kurzweil is at it, again. There is a very interesting article about his latest book, Fantastic Voyage: Live long enough to live forever, at Wired.com. I won’t speculate about the possibility of ever achieving such a feat, it is … Continue reading

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Pintando con Luz

Lo and behold! I finished redesigning my photoblog, Pintando con Luz. Just a place to paste some of the many pictures I take. Always in pursuit of angles, shadows and highlights. I hope you like the pictures.

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Still here

Well, I haven’t gone anywhere. Always here, following the same routine. I’ve been doing a lot of reading though. Online and off-line, something that would make my pen-pal, Joel Biroco, happy. I don’t have many excuses for not writing. I … Continue reading

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Misguided targets…

“…the fallacy that good is limited by evil, and that you cannot receive any good except through eliminating the corresponding evil by realizing it and beating it back. In this view, life becomes a continual combat against every imaginable form … Continue reading

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Of Blogs and Flogs

I wonder why, with so many interesting things happening around me and beyond, is it so difficult to sit down and just write about it. Anything. How does some people actually learn to organize their ideas and pour them effortlessly … Continue reading

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