http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net Lost soul, lost road, lost words. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:30:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hot on the literary heels of my list of books that kinda-sorta changed my life (or not), here's a list of 32 must-read Sci Fi books.  I'm embarrassed to say I've only read one more than a handful of them, and there's a few that people would gasp to learn ... http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2008/07/04/sci-fi-reads/ (For reason #24, see Chris' Twitter feed on his site.) Back in the day, around 2002 or so, I wondered aloud whether anyone knew of any Starbucks that had actually closed.  I was walking through the Financial District in San Francisco at the time and one of my companions said he ... http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2008/07/01/reason-25-the-economy-sucks/ What is it about people and lists of books that changed their lives?  Do books really change lives? Or did we just happen to be reading them at key moments?  I'm sure in some cases books helped people develop their personal philosophies, find the right job, or get the girl, ... http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2008/06/23/books-that-changed-my-life/ I've been thinking a lot lately about deep ecology. The concept of "deep ecology" is highly philosophical, but at the application level, in a superficial nutshell, deep ecology is a fundamental shift in behavior and attitudes to bring them to a point where they are more in harmony with the ... http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2008/06/22/deep-ecology/ Twitter is the new e-mail.  I don't mean that it's the new "killer app" or that it will replace more established modes of communication like talking or writing or texting, as I see it as a hybrid of email and IM. No, Twitter is the new e-mail because of what it ... http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2008/06/18/truth-in-140-characters/ Zwahlen Images posted a whole passel of photographs of Sacramento at night over on the Skyscraper Forums.  Check them out. http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2008/06/07/sacramento-at-night/ It's the most wonderful time of the year. A time of heat, a time of grilling, a time of emptying your wallet of its contents for just a little taste of the world's best salmon.  But if you're trying to eat locally, like, within a hundred miles of Sacramento, ... http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2008/06/06/more-than-a-hundred-miles/ LivingInUrbanSac has decided to walk the walk and after talking to a set of movers and shakers, has pulled together a neighborhood meeting on how to make Fremont Park a better neighborhood park. Fremont Park was an important, if somewhat underutilized, part of my childhood, so I've always looked at it ... http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2008/05/21/fremont-park/ Sacramento Regional Transit has a golden opportunity to raise its profile and it has dropped the ball. One of the myriad ways CalTrans is suggesting people avoid the whole I-5 mess during the next couple months is by taking transit. Granted, those likely most affected by the construction will be ... http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2008/05/14/rt-drops-the-ball/ Reed College, alma mater of Barbara Ehrenreich, Gary Snyder, and yours truly, bests the previous historical record by one month. A scholar, researching an article for the alumni rag, stumbled across an old recording in the Reed library of Alan Ginsburg reading the first section of "Howl." This ... http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2008/02/22/i-saw-the-best-minds-of-my-generation/