Random NotesOn books, writing and travel .....The Decemberists- January 30, 2007 Terry Gross interviewed Colin Meloy of The Decemberists in NPR today. Good stuff....http://www.kaush.com/archives/000623.html Assorted time management tips- January 29, 2007 From John Quiggin on Crooked Timbers. I really liked tip 3: (It) is particularly relevant for people prone to distraction, which obviously includes all of us here. My core business is producing academic journal articles (and the occasional book). In this business, its easy to drift along, reading lots of...http://www.kaush.com/archives/000622.html The cooling world- January 27, 2007 Frosty E. Hardison, a 43-year-old computer consultant and an evangelical Christian "believes that a warming planet is 'one of the signs' of Jesus Christ's imminent return for Judgment Day". And he has managed to put a spanner in the plans for showing 'An inconvenient truth' in her daughter's school. The...http://www.kaush.com/archives/000621.html Raising money for Orphanages- January 23, 2007 "The novelist Natasha Radojcic, has partnered with writer and publisher Allison Weaver in a project with two purposes: raising money for orphanages and running a literary magazine. For a $5 donation, you can contribute to the cause and--maybe--get published, too.(... accepted manuscripts will be paid a minimum of $200--thats a...http://www.kaush.com/archives/000620.html |