Nick Kempinski
Nick Kempinski
@nick@whoisnick.com

Doing things for over 40 year; 20+ of those on the web. Now federated @nick@whoisnick.com

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  • Yearly Guide

    I’m not too big on the whole new year’s resolution thing. The idea of making a list and going through it one by one seems to constrained for me. Life, to me, needs flexibility. And so a few years ago I came up with the idea that I think has been doing good for me.…

  • Go fly a kite

    I don’t think the phrase is used much anymore….but if it picked up circulation again and someone said it to me,”nick, go fly a kite!” I can now say “o.k.”

  • No Coffee Enlightenment

    Read an interesting post. Must be the lack of morning coffee and it might be my personal insight into jazz. I saw this quote “The humble improv” Now in turn it seems that I read the quote wrong. The quote is actually from Wynton Marsalis, “The humble improve“. However, what I thought the quote was…

  • You say “88″ and I say “Hello”

    Some call it bastardization; some call it social degradation. I call it evolution. Today I was reading an article about the internet savvy Chinese. They have adapted various puns when on the internet. Take ‘88′, to us english speaking crackers it’s just a number; even to the formal trained linguist of the orient, it’s a…

  • Extraordinary about Ordinary

    An interesting point crept up yesterday in The Chrysalis that I had never thought before. I had just finished reading my homework, and everyone was taken aback. At the time of reading it, I was moven to shake and even a tear or two crept out. I guess, I to, was taken aback by the…