A life in words

  • T is for Tokyo

    That’s good enough for Cookie Monster. Problem is, the skyline at the top of my website is actually that of Kuala Lampur. But that has two letters, which is far beyond Sesame Street.

  • Enter Monstropolitan

    I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time—merge my public ¡Oye, vato! blog with my family-only Ziggity Zam blog. It saves me the hassle of having to post things in two places. It helps me be able to focus on just one blog. It gives me a new, permanent home at joshhansen.net. And……

  • Outta Here

    And here is the geekish last post from my Ziggity Zam family blog: To use the Java meta-expression: @Deprecated This blog is officially deprecated in favor of http://joshhansen.net/. All of the posts and comments from this blog have been moved over to the new one. It’s been fun, family!

Of a commonwealth, whose subjects are but hindered by terror from taking arms, it should rather be said, that it is free from war, than that it has peace. For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character….Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus V.4, 1670, trans. A. H. Gosset 1883