Ragged Clown

The End-of-Life Handbook recommends using ritual to create meaning.

I love buying books for people who will get pleasure from them

I opened the book and, on the very first page, was the program that changed my life.

I read The Quiet American when I was still entirely in love with the romance of South East Asia.

I started a new job with a brand-new startup. An old life is ending as a new life begins.

XP Explained ruined software engineering for me.

The Golden Treasury of English Verse and a harmonica were my only mementos of civilization.

Three atheists tell their stories.

He hovered, and stayed still, striding on the crumbling columns of air, curved wings jerking and flexing.

Every English schoolboy knows that history began in 1066.

We are lost in the worthy zone.

A degree should be sufficiently difficult to deter all but the brightest of kids.

Francis Crick will be up on my Wall of Heroes with Bob, George, Winston and the others.

A Buccaneer scholar is someone who takes responsibility for their own education.

I read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance three times

The Utopian dream of the looters ends in dystopia and apocalypse.

You can make something out of nothing but the thoughts in your head.

It’s not what I thought it was about.

Sturgeon’s Law explains everything.

All of the characters are very moral according to their own particular version of morality.

Will they make a good movie?

Sin is just a manifestation of our Human Propensity to Fuck Things Up.

Clearly Kate is much too smart to make a mistake like that.

Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, The Beatles? Good choices.