http://www.lessurban.com Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:44:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Love Harlan Ellison, been a fan of his for a long time. In case you haven't been introduced to the man and his works, Harlan is a rather vocal and opinionated writer, mainly of short stories and essays. He's a champion of the idea that a writer without ... http://www.lessurban.com/2008/08/18/getting-paid/ Ed. - Since I wrote this, Tropical Storm Fay has turned her eyes towards a Cat 1 Tampa landfall. Ironic. Great NYT piece today about the general weather amnesia setting in over in Florida, only four years after we got our collective asses kicked by five hurricanes in six weeks. ... http://www.lessurban.com/2008/08/16/hurricane-whatever/ In most of Western civilization, we've elevated reductionism and ambivalence to the status of state religion. We write off cultural myth as merely fanciful storytelling (or worse, literal truth); reduce vital political debates to the competitive give-and-take of a football game; entertain the idea that formal education is little ... http://www.lessurban.com/2008/08/15/fact-from-myth-meaning-from-ambivalence/ Wow, last post was in January. 2008 is flying by. Now that I'm married and life is seriously calming down again (for the first time since December), I'm thinking back towards Less Urban more and more. We've got a lot to talk about. The Frannie Mac and Fannie ... http://www.lessurban.com/2008/07/14/coming-back-soon/ Good piece today from The Economist about the actual hard challenges being faced by Saudi Aramco in pumping more oil out of the ground. Basically, they've been promising to ramp up production for over two years now and haven't. More than a few people have suggested that they ... http://www.lessurban.com/2008/01/18/pressure-to-pump-the-economist/ I don't know that I absolutely agree with all of them, but there's definitely more truth than fiction here.. worth reading. 20 Things That Are True But Nobody Wants to Admit 20. We all love a good musical. Admit it. You turn on High School Musical or Grease and next thing ... http://www.lessurban.com/2007/12/18/20-truths-that-no-one-admits/ I know I haven't updated Less Urban in a while. It's been a wild few months, and to be honest blogging has been the last thing on my mind. But I'm working my way back around to it. In the meantime, I took K out to the beach over ... http://www.lessurban.com/2007/11/12/on-a-personal-note/ Once upon a time, there was young woman named Katrina. She didn't have much to her name, was just getting started in life, and arrived in West Palm Beach, Florida in the late summer of 2005 with a slight touch of attitude but otherwise unremarkably. Katrina's arrival in West Palm ... http://www.lessurban.com/2007/08/23/storm-warning/ No comments today, just wanted to share a good news story found in the Orlando Sentinel this morning. Pretty excellent piece on what's really happening in the housing market, what variable rate ARM's are about to do, and what greater ramifications we can expect. If the worst fears about these ... http://www.lessurban.com/2007/08/11/high-risk-mortgages-become-toxic-mess/ I got a chance tonight to do something cool and a heckuva lot of fun. I got an invite to go see a limited audience prescreener of The Bourne Ultimatum (released in theaters this Friday) at Universal Studios Orlando. As not only a big fan of the Bourne ... http://www.lessurban.com/2007/08/01/the-bourne-ultimatum-an-film-unreview/