Reading the Social Text

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61758116978489323412012-02-16T18:38:26.748-08:00Reading the Social TextContemporary thought and experiences in our everyday world.Reading the Social Texthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18353216827849263820noreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6175811697848932341.post-12632473250671599062009-03-24T15:57:00.000-07:002009-03-24T16:36:21.788-07:00Carded!

The most amazing place has been found. A repository to satiate your imagination. What is this mysterious place? The Seattle Public Library. Times have changed. This is NOT the library from childhood. Oh, no. It is modern, efficient and inspiring.Libraries for AllSeattle voters in 1998 approved the largest library bond issue then ever submitted in the United States. The landmark "Libraries for All

Reading the Social Texthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18353216827849263820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6175811697848932341.post-50687942292761601902009-03-17T08:58:00.000-07:002009-03-17T12:04:16.387-07:00RIP Seattle P-I

The final daily version of the beloved Seattle Post-Intelligencer (1863-2009) prints today. The publication will continue online with a severely reduced staff of 20 persons -- down from 165.The disappearance of newspapers raises many questions. What next? If news becomes an online only source, what aspects of tradition will slip away? What will become of it's replacement? Reducing a staff at the

Reading the Social Texthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18353216827849263820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6175811697848932341.post-21034892227481346772009-03-16T21:48:00.000-07:002009-03-16T23:09:59.376-07:00Getting Stoned with Rosetta

So today marks an very important day. I am learning German. Rosetta Stone offers their course on CD-ROM at a price most nomads, like myself, can't afford. However, they do offer an online subscription for the same materials at half the cost! Naturally, I bought it.The Rosetta experience uses full immersion -- visual and contextual clues leading to mastery. The premise, they suggest, is the same

Reading the Social Texthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18353216827849263820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6175811697848932341.post-7248210732132558222009-03-15T22:35:00.000-07:002009-03-17T12:05:34.133-07:00The Nerve

Trekking across the country on an airplane can be filled with, well, a lot of crap. So, it was on this earlier evening's journey that I suddenly was inspired to write about nerves. How people get on our nerves and why is it it rarely seems that someone's behavior soothes our nerves. And then somewhere along my path of many travels, I started hearing good folk retort "You're getting on my last

Reading the Social Texthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18353216827849263820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6175811697848932341.post-17245396720566179382009-03-15T21:37:00.001-07:002009-03-15T23:44:52.809-07:00Happy New Year!

Ok, so it's been nearly a year. Let's call it an extended hiatus and toast to the return of reading.

Reading the Social Texthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18353216827849263820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6175811697848932341.post-30996806886898902032008-02-09T14:35:00.000-08:002008-02-09T20:11:09.717-08:00text now, talk ever?

As we near the big Vday, loved ones will share their status quo of commitment through trinkets, baubles and chocolate. But it is through communication that a successful relationship can thrive. Being single for about 8 months and having my fair share of dates, I have come to the realization that our technological advances are destroying our ability to develop and have quality human

Reading the Social Texthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18353216827849263820noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6175811697848932341.post-84850089606737195172008-01-02T20:31:00.000-08:002008-01-02T21:14:23.626-08:00Coke: Sniff it, Drink it. You will have it!

Happy New Year! And nothing says that better than a fizzy, syrupy Coca-Cola. I recently had the opportunity to visit the Coca-Cola museum to better acquaint myself with the tradition that is Coca-Cola. WOW! I would just like to say that they are quite proud of their product.This world-renowned product was introduced in Atlanta, GA back in 1886. Creator John Pemberton claimed that this beverage

Reading the Social Texthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18353216827849263820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6175811697848932341.post-26550905302397635772007-12-30T19:47:00.000-08:002007-12-30T22:53:56.584-08:00Field trip to the National Civil Rights Museum

I've been holding on to these thoughts for a while now because I haven't really had time to formally express my concern with all that is wrong with what is claimed to be the National Civil Rights museum. Granted Memphis has history. MLK was shot at the Lorraine Motel in downtown Memphis. Using that hotel as a landmark, it was turned into a museum which now claims -- in the very title -- to be a

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