There’s an economic theory — The Law of Diminution at the Margin — that has largely been echoing in the hollow. Few of us are attuned to the consequence of the condition, but that doesn’t mean the meme doesn’t exist or factor into the existence of what binds us to the living.
Continue reading → Reaping the Fallow and the Fallen: The Law of Diminution at the Margin
Do you find yourself complaining a lot, suffering a lot of let downs and disappointments? Is your life blighted by ongoing sagas about poor service or products that do not perform as they should?
When faced with being let down, or being disappointed, do you look for someone to blame — or do you acknowledge somewhere in your psyche that the problem may actually be one of your own making — the problem of false expectations?
Continue reading → False Expectation vs. False Representation
My best friend and his wife visited me last weekend and, while catching up, he told me about how well things were going for him since getting his Master’s degree in Library Science from the University of Pittsburgh — online. I met him while we were both at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and he went on to get a Master’s degree from Columbia University — both fully in person, mind you. I was quite impressed with his accomplishment and how the perception of online universities has changed in the last decade. It brought to mind a conversation I once had with an associate that told me that online universities would never be taken seriously by employers — my best friend would beg to differ as he has a job that required the Library Science degree and they took his degree just as seriously as one the University of Pittsburgh would have awarded to a person who had attended all of their classes in person.
Continue reading → The Vanishing Stigma of Earning Degrees Online
I am not a hoarder, but I do like to buy in bulk. When you buy in bulk, you get a greater value. I apply my bulk mentality to purchasing socks and undershirts and underpants. I like the bulk approach when it comes to unmentionables because they all tend to wear out at the same rate. Buy quality once, and the degradation of that quality is matched across a bunch of material over time.
Not too long ago, we addressed the question of whether art could be quantified. What I would like to consider is if all we need to do to consider something art is to merely apply the label art to it. Having already seen the curious art of Caleb Larsen, I thought I had seen it all when it came to art that didn’t really seem like art to me. I was ill prepared for the shock I would receive when I came across a web site created by Nate Hill called White Power Milk.
All of my non-blog websites, and all my Boles Blogs Network images, are hosted on my private server. Over the years, I’ve bounced around from webhost to webhost searching for the right fit. In the past, I’ve tried LunarPages and Media Temple and Mosso (now rackspace CloudServers) found all of them lacking. Then I happened upon pair Networks — located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — and I finally found the right webhost for me; I’ve been a proud, paying, pair Networks customer for over three years.
Continue reading → The pair Networks Virtual Private Server Review
Steve Miller is a great musician, but he hasn’t released a new album in 17 years. Known for this “electric Blues” style, Steve has always had a freshly scrubbed and highly produced studio sound. This week, Steve released — “Bingo!” — a new album that salutes the Blues masters who formed his young, musical, life.
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