by Bill on September 7, 2009
My sense is that here, in the western world, we have a thing about purpose – everything and everyone must have a purpose. We get frustrated and sometimes irritable when we can’t see any. I was thinking about this after doing one of those silly meme things on Facebook. There was a question like, “When [...]
by Bill on December 9, 2008
In the usual kerfuffle known as the news of the day, you may have missed this: Dogs show envy, researchers say. In a paper with the dreary and somewhat obfuscating title, “The absence of reward induces inequity aversion in dogs,” researchers conclude that dogs, like people, don’t like inequality (well, unless we’re on the better [...]
by Bill on October 2, 2008
On a subject unrelated to writing (except in the sense that it disrupts my writing/editing work) … When I got my dog, Molly Bloom, from the SPCA, part of the reason for choosing her was her quiet disposition. She was a rescue dog. She had been found, with her four siblings, in something like a [...]