Hats off to Birke Baehr. The young man has courage, and convictions, and he displayed both talking to a huge crowd at an independent Ted event in Asheville, North Carolina. 1 So much so that he ended up featured on the mother ship at Ted.com, which is how I came to see his performance.
It was a great performance too. He had clearly rehearsed. He knew his stuff. He engaged with the audience. His graphics were clear. Heck, I have 2 colleagues who could use a lesson from Birke.
You can tell it‘s a quiet day in whatever personal blogosphere you explore when people start talking about the comments they‘ve had or, better yet, the search terms people used to find them. I should know; I‘m guilty. Next in importance, an irrelevance to most readers, is the “I get email” gambit. W...
Some time ago in an American airport a man came up to the man in front of me in a line. He had a packet of white powder in his hand. He showed the man in front of me a very official looking badge (although he wasn’t in uniform or anything) and asked the man to put the bag of white powder in his bac...
A lot of my loaves are raised with natural leavens, rather than store-bought yeast.
There’s a lot one could say about natural yeasts, wild yeasts, sourdough starters, levain, leaven, what have you. I'm not going to say much. You can read elsewhere about how a good natural leaven is a symbiotic m...
I may regret this, but having learned to spread little goodies to followers through Google Reader, I thought I would send them back here to The Mother Ship. Over there, below the Random Photograph. To do that, however, I have to make them available to all and sundry, rather than just to my friends a...
