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This entry originally appeared in The Beaumont Enterprise. Author, educator and “creativity expert” Sir Ken Robinson gave this talk at the 2006 TED Conference (Technology, Education, Design) about how he feels the education system kills creativity. The talk is entertaining and he makes some excellent points about the importance of creativity and about how “academic inflation” has made it so that “degrees...
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We’re moving into week three of the serialization of my novel, Snowflakes In Autumn, and I’ve been enjoying it, for the most part. Except for today. When I wrote this, I didn’t have online distribution in mind, so re-formating all of the instant messaging bits of today’s installment was a monstrous pain to deal with. Oh well, I guess it shows how much I care about your reading experience. Trey’s party was a...
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Kristian Bland
Writer
Occasional Geek
I'm a former Webmaster turned Journalist turned Systems Administrator. I once thought I could recreate Spider-Man's web fluid, but only ended up staining the driveway of my friend's parents when some of it spilled out and went runny. Eventually, I became a caustic tech geek, which I'm pretty sure inspired the character of Dr. Gregory House, although the bastards never credited me. Later in life, I'd go on to have a horrific experience in publishing that I don't talk about, except to talk about how I don't talk about it. Later still, I became a web editor and columnist for a Hearst newspaper, where I excelled at being Me until my entire department was unceremoniously laid off. After that, I spent about six months being pretty busy not being busy. It sucked. Then, after missing the light of my radiant glory casting its warmth upon the newsroom for long enough, the paper called me up and asked me back. So I went back. And then I left again. And here we are.
