Big Sole Blog (BSB)

I have paid less attention to tomorrow's prophesied world end than I have to the man in the moon. I recall the hype about Year 2000 mayhem, and due to my job back then in the Midwest, I spent New Years Eve 1999 helping to monitor the computers that protected financial information in underground data centers. The experience was less spooky than it sounds, and as many readers know, nothing

From Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Book III, written in the 1700s. Gulliver is speaking of the science-obsessed Laputians, the people on the flying island called Laputa. These people are under continual disquietudes, never enjoying a minutes peace of mind; and their disturbances proceed from causes which very little affect the rest of mortals. Their apprehensions arise from several

I am trying to ignore all the doomsday scenarios arising as people project their fears onto the BP Deepwater Horizon leak in the Gulf of Mexico. I prefer to keep a positive mindset, as reflected in one of my poems about the disaster. However, I do read about the fear such as those Gena Haskett explored in her post about doomers and the BP oil spill. Last night, I saw the following in my mail, a