Here’s a mind-blowing concept for you:
We’ve been kicking around this planet for, what? Say 7,000 years or so? And yet, as late as 1900 A.D., we were still getting around in horse-drawn carriages. We had no telephones, no homogenization, no immunization. And then suddenly, miraculously, we turned a technological corner and less than 70 years […]
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Technology Leap-frog
Published by August 2nd, 2007 in Motivations, Philosophy and Podcasting. 4 CommentsLast night I watched the movie, “Babel.”
Powerful. Moving. Masterfully filmed and performed. I was particularly captivated by the thread of the deaf Japanese girl. Those of you who have been visiting this blog for a while will remember my fascination with the Tower of Babel—of how we were all one people until a divine force […]
A perfect partner
Published by December 31st, 2006 in ChinesePod, Motivations and Philosophy. 3 CommentsA perfect partner
I was as thrilled as all of you to read that ChinesePod has been named on Time’s list of great podcasts of 2006, but really… are any of us surprised? Not me, certainly. I have always viewed ChinesePod as the first “horseless carriage” of its kind. I think we’re likely to see many […]
1974. Everybody was kung fu fighting.
Fists and feet were flying and we made these absurd sounds like a chicken being strangled when we attacked. Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris had beaten the snot out of each other in the Roman Coliseum and Jackie Chan was already kicking ass and taking names. I was taking the […]
