Category: Musings

Thoughts and Musing

The Outsider Colin Wilson Passes

British writer and philosopher Colin Wilson and one of my favorite authors in my, umm,  formative years, passed over the weekend.  Back in those days, I was much given to exploring physic phenomena, mysticism and...

Letter from Albert Einstein to his son

My dear Albert, Yesterday I received your dear letter and was very happy with it. I was already afraid you wouldn’t write to me at all any more. You told me when I was...

Self Portrait in Ichthyosaur

Actually I would prefer oil, maybe in a pastoral setting, but if you are a prehistoric Kraken, its pretty good. Paleontologist Mark McMenamin of Mount Holyoke College came to the conclusion that the shonisaur...

Hilarious quote

Hilarious quote

Carson Black, analyst who exposed massive fraud in (former) stock market darling,  Canada/Chinese forestry giant Sino-Forest  : “I even combed my hair forward for a ‘Dumb and Dumber’ look.  I tried to sound really dumb...