Nautis Project

For Christmas, I sponsored a child for my Nana. It’s not much money to sponsor a kid and the money is leveraged in ways that would be impossible here in the U.S. Here’s a summary that CCF send me. Jannapa Somnukton’s parents plant rice on their land for a living. They have to face the [...]

I just finished Mitch Albom’s latest novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven. It’s small book and took me only a day to read. It follows in a long line of novels and psychological pop writings that serve to re-assure people that their ordinary lives are, in fact, pretty extraordinary. These writings tend to [...]

A few people have asked me what exactly “nautis” means. Here’s the answer:

First of all, it’s Latin. You may have guessed that already if you scored over 1000 on the SAT. The rest of the translation requires at least a course in Latin 101. If you’ve gone to college or even high school in the [...]

My friends have always regarded my movie selections as somewhat dubious. I’m sure they feel that they’ve sat through several miserable hours (that they’ll never get back) watching some of the silliest movies every made. Some people call these “B Movies” - I prefer to call them classics.

Among the best of the best are: The [...]

I guess it’s true that things do come around again. If you’re as old as me, you may remember the very early days of the web. The web was built around individual webmasters with single HTML pages with massive amounts of information on an endless page that scrolled on forever. There was usually a long [...]

Today I slept in until 4:30pm. By the time I woke up, It was dark again. Faced with an odd dilemma I couldn’t decide whether I was supposed to take a shower, or not. I’ve been washing my hands with this new soap with Tea Tree Oil. It smells good, but my hands have been tingling during the day.