Comments on: About http://thestrandedstarfish.com Looking for ways to make a difference. Sun, 13 May 2012 22:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: jenn danbury http://thestrandedstarfish.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-490 jenn danbury Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:31:53 +0000 http://thestrandedstarfish.com/?page_id=2#comment-490 so, i finally hit your blog and actually for this being (yes believe it or not) my first time on a blog, i absolutely loved reading your rants/ its like your the jerry seinfeld of this piece of cyber world. Do you ever take suggestions on pontificating :). Next time i think of something fantastically obvious that I know everyone understands, i will ping you and maybe with your artistry it can become something truly fantastic. Hope your well. so, i finally hit your blog and actually for this being (yes believe it or not) my first time on a blog, i absolutely loved reading your rants/ its like your the jerry seinfeld of this piece of cyber world.

Do you ever take suggestions on pontificating :) . Next time i think of something fantastically obvious that I know everyone understands, i will ping you and maybe with your artistry it can become something truly fantastic.

Hope your well.

]]> By: joe http://thestrandedstarfish.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-164 joe Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:38:58 +0000 http://thestrandedstarfish.com/?page_id=2#comment-164 I have read the Star Thrower story but never the book. I've just ordered a copy. Thank you for the excellent reference, Jim. Interestingly enough a lot of people credit the story above to Eiseley, but if you read Eiseley's story it is not the same. It doesn't have the same ending. While loosely based on THe Star Thrower, it was Joel Barker that developed the turn of the story about making a difference.. Eiseley's story talks about how the starfish almost seemed designed to be helped - "The stars throw well. You can help them." My favorite line is when someone asks the Star Thrower whether they collect the starfish and he responds "I do not collect neither the living nor the dead. Death is the only successful collector." Thanks again Jim - I can't wait to read the rest of the book. I have read the Star Thrower story but never the book. I’ve just ordered a copy. Thank you for the excellent reference, Jim.

Interestingly enough a lot of people credit the story above to Eiseley, but if you read Eiseley’s story it is not the same. It doesn’t have the same ending. While loosely based on THe Star Thrower, it was Joel Barker that developed the turn of the story about making a difference..

Eiseley’s story talks about how the starfish almost seemed designed to be helped – “The stars throw well. You can help them.”

My favorite line is when someone asks the Star Thrower whether they collect the starfish and he responds “I do not collect neither the living nor the dead. Death is the only successful collector.”

Thanks again Jim – I can’t wait to read the rest of the book.

]]> By: Jim P http://thestrandedstarfish.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-161 Jim P Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:57:55 +0000 http://thestrandedstarfish.com/?page_id=2#comment-161 Have you read "The Star Thrower," an essay by Loren Eiseley, published in 1969 in a collection of essays entitled "The Unexpected Universe"? If you haven't read Eiseley, you're in for a treat. wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Thrower Have you read “The Star Thrower,” an essay by Loren Eiseley, published in 1969 in a collection of essays entitled “The Unexpected Universe”? If you haven’t read Eiseley, you’re in for a treat.

wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Thrower

]]> By: Uma Kandaswamy http://thestrandedstarfish.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-147 Uma Kandaswamy Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:05:54 +0000 http://thestrandedstarfish.com/?page_id=2#comment-147 I loved reading your latest few blog entries and started wondering such a positive learning spirit, but why a stranded star fish title.. Now i understand :)So looking forward to work and learn with you. I loved reading your latest few blog entries and started wondering such a positive learning spirit, but why a stranded star fish title.. Now i understand :) So looking forward to work and learn with you.

]]> By: Paul http://thestrandedstarfish.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Paul Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:01:04 +0000 http://thestrandedstarfish.com/?page_id=2#comment-3 Great idea. But know that you have already helped many starfish, including me. :) Great idea. But know that you have already helped many starfish, including me. :)

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