I had a wow moment while respond­ing to someone’s blog post today. The writer described the invis­i­ble hand of cap­i­tal­ism as a bet­ter alter­na­tive to hav­ing count­less flawed humans in pub­lic ser­vice scram­bling to enact their indi­vid­ual views of what’s best for every­one. I inter­preted his opin­ion essen­tially as: The role of per­fect cap­i­tal­ism is […]

Posted on December 4th, 2011 by Sky
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Mus­ing and writ­ing about Seattle’s con­ta­gious energy.

Posted on February 12th, 2011 by Sky
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With all this talk about old news out­lets giv­ing way to social media, here is a story to con­sider. This morn­ing I dialed into 5–0 Radio Pro, an iPhone app that’s a quite capa­ble police-fire-emergency radio scan­ner. After mak­ing the rounds of my reg­u­lar chan­nels, I checked out the cur­rent Top 100 and noted Nashville […]

Posted on May 2nd, 2010 by Sky
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On Craigslist, in the for sale / wanted / musi­cal instru­ments sec­tion, some­one posts the fol­low­ing plea: Do not buy any­thing being made in China… Do not buy any equip­ment made in for­eign coun­tries. Sup­port the coun­try and only buy amer­i­can. All of those amps made over­seas are crap. Save your money and buy either american […]

Posted on April 14th, 2010 by Sky
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Noted jazz musi­cian Her­bie Han­cock said the fol­low­ing in a Key­board Mag­a­zine inter­view pub­lished back in Feb­ru­ary 2002: To me, being in a com­fort zone is a kind of dying — you just stay there, and you don’t grow. It’s the oppo­site of what human exis­tence is really about: con­stant growth, until you can’t any­more, and […]

Posted on March 12th, 2010 by Sky
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#Musicbl­o­go­cide. I’ll have to look more into this story [1], but suf­fice to say, if Google has been tak­ing down music-related Blog­ger sites with­out clear jus­ti­fi­ca­tion, it is unwar­ranted cen­sor­ship and a big prob­lem. Google recently took down sev­eral music blogs due to copy­right vio­la­tions, yet the owner of at least one site in particular […]

Posted on February 12th, 2010 by Sky
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I have a con­fes­sion to make. Zen Potluck was never sup­posed to be about pol­i­tics. Visit my About Page and you’ll read my sim­ple pledge to talk about sus­tain­able, con­scious liv­ing, and yes, maybe even food. You see, my part­ner and I like to cook and break bread together. Regard­less of sched­ules, we man­age to commune […]

Posted on January 23rd, 2010 by Sky
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Tonight I wrote the fol­low­ing in a dis­cus­sion thread on one of the main­stream media web­sites cov­er­ing the Mass­a­chu­setts sen­ate elec­tion. Thank­fully, direct feed­back has been mostly pos­i­tive and con­struc­tive, which is a hopeful sign.

Posted on January 20th, 2010 by Sky
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The tragic sit­u­a­tion in Haiti is gnaw­ing at me. Like so many oth­ers, my fam­ily is con­tribut­ing to the quake relief effort, and we’re opti­mistic that the world’s over­whelm­ing gen­eros­ity can help improve peo­ples’ lives there. Yet the tragic sit­u­a­tion in Haiti still gnaws at me. How can two coun­tries, Haiti and the Domini­can Repub­lic, share one […]

Posted on January 15th, 2010 by Sky
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Here is my first pre­dic­tion for 2010: Mobil­ity is the new buzz­word. Apple may have just ensured this, based on cred­i­ble reports of a mobility-themed prod­uct event on Jan­u­ary 26th, when Apple is expected to announce a new tablet device which may be a game-changer for print-media con­sump­tion, espe­cially news­pa­pers and mag­a­zines. [1] Like­wise, Smartphone […]

Posted on December 31st, 2009 by Sky
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