Jeffrey C. Long

From Just Think Journal as springboard for living: Earlier this week, the Journalisimo | Back to Analog blog carried this quote on journaling by Janet Ruth Falon from Body and Soul magazine: “Keep a vital journal. Therapy isn’t for everyone, certainly, but most people can benefit from at least a little introspection. The more solid [...]

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If you happen to see me during the week, you are likely to find me wearing a new cap. My wife got it for me for Valentine’s Day, though it only arrived last week. The big exclamation point always elicits curiosity. “What’s it mean,” an older gentleman at Barnes and Nobles asked me. “It means [...]

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Last night I had the privilege of attending the concert of the Magic Valley Symphony at the College of Southern Idaho Fine Arts Center. It was a wonderful evening with guest artist Anna Gerrish, pianist, who graduated from Filer, Idaho and went on to get her Masters in Piano performance and pedagogy. One thing I [...]

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From Life Hacker Photographer Matt Frondorf drove from the Statue of Liberty to the Golden Gate bridge and took one photo at each mile marker. The result is a collection of 3,304 photos moving from east to west – an interactive Flash map of the project lets you travel across the States and see Matt’s [...]

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I found this Personal Mission Statement builder at the Life Hacker blog. I’ve been building up my “Getting Things Done” muscle by reading the book by David Allen and reading the website and google group 43folders. From there I’ve been learning the difference between strategy and tactics in accomplishing life goals. Strategy is the big [...]

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This continues to be one of my favorite quotes. Some years ago, NASA released the first deep-space photographs of the beautiful cloud-swirled blue-green agate we call Earth. A reporter showed one of them to the late Samuel Shenton, then president of International Flat Earth Research Society. Shenton studied it for a moment and said, “It’s [...]

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Another article on how cell phone usage is changing the world we live in. This time economically. Colleges’ Land Lines Nearing Silent End: The Washington Post reports that across the country, wired phones are becoming obsolete in colleges. Although not many colleges have eliminated them, “almost every major school is evaluating it,” said Jeri Semer, [...]

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Well, the war….er, I mean election is over, and so has ended my self-imposed news blackout.  I still don’t listen to as much NPR as I used to.  A lot of my driving time is taken up with listening to Bible studies by Steve Gregg. Today, while driving home from dropping my children off at [...]

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I’ve been playing with the subtitle to my webpage a few times. I’m currently settled on “Culture Craftsmanship.” What is culture? Culture is the seemingly invisible water that we swim in daily. It is the unwritten rules of our language, customs, faith and traditions. It is how we communicate. It is how people and institutions [...]

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September 20, 2004 (Tampa, Florida): The Wikimedia Foundation announced today the creation of the one millionth article in Wikipedia, its project to create a free, open-content, online encyclopedia (Wikipedia.org (http://en.wikipedia.org)). Started in January 2001, Wikipedia is currently the world’s largest and fastest growing encyclopedia, with articles under active development in over 100 languages. Nearly 2,500 [...]

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