February 2012
5 posts
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greenandblueworld asked: If I ask you anything, will you answer?
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Two birds with one stone
I don’t know why I didn’t think of this earlier.
Problem A: recipes are too big. I mean, I’m all in favor of leftovers, but eating the same thing for lunch 4 days in a row is about my limit.
Problem B: I work more than full-time, so whenever those meal signup emails go around (“Yay! Tom and Suzy had a baby! Let’s help them out for the next couple of...
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Basically: if you go online, you're hosed
I wanted to call this post “Sound Advice.” But I would say that, wouldn’t I?
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Productivity tip #1: Don’t sit down. It’s amazing how much you can get done when you come home from work if you just stay on your feet.
Productivity tip #2: If you do sit down, make your music loud and hard to turn off. Vinyl is best. A cd player on the other side of the room with...
January 2012
3 posts
“Often enough, the broadcast media ignores these issues on their own, but in this...”
– Conor Friedersdorf, “From Newsweek to CNN: The Narrowing of American Politics.”
December 2011
7 posts
“While researchers have known for decades that the body undergoes various...”
– The Fat Trap - NYTimes.com
“How did a nation that, aside from its mussels and chips, renowned chocolate and...”
– Belgium, a small, unremarkable country, brews world-reknowned beer. The country also makes a bigger range than any other—1,131 at the last count. Its hybrid history and culture are part of the reason why.
WatchDoctor Who Christmas special! (now I’m biting my nails…)
“You left the cocoon of Princeton when you were 16. Why?
I was a rebellious...”
– George Dyson - Looking Backward to Put New Technology in Focus - NYTimes.com (via ayjay)
November 2011
14 posts
“The Sabbath stands between the extremes of primitivism (aka hidebound...”
– Credenda/Agenda
“Stop trying to prove that you’re OK. Stop trying to measure up to some invisible...”
– Toby Sumpter
“For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in...”
– Milton, “Areopagitica” (via n’oubliez-pas)
“ooh ooh
ooh ooh
ooh ooh
Woah oh oh oh, woah oh oh oh
Oh oh oh-oh
Oh oh oh...”
– Mylo Xyloto in nonsense syllables (according to the Coldplay lyrics page)
Archetypes and parallels
Cain:Abel::Romulus:Remus
Rome was a city founded by a man who killed his brother.
The first recorded city in history was built by the first man to kill his brother.
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David:Solomon::Romulus:Numa
Romulus was a fighter, on the run from a king who wanted him dead, who had blood on his hands. Numa was a wise king who established the Roman laws and customs, particularly Roman worship.
David...
“In Hebrew, the verb for learn becomes teach in its intensive form.
In...”
– Toby Sumpter, You Become What You Give
“The fuller measures have also shown less poverty among children but more among...”
– New York Times, of all places. Just try telling any of this to the Occupy Wall Street folks…
Amoretti giveaway. →
Bekah Merkle is giving away an Advent calendar from the BODLEIAN. This is how very unselfish I am: I’m encouraging *you* to go enter, even though I badly want to win.
PS I am also humble.
“Google is saying to social-minded Reader users, “We’re going to kill the social...”
– ayjay, commenting on How Google Reader’s Overhaul Betrayed and Irked Its Most Passionate Users
Exodus
@cleithart: And now Gmail looks like Facebook. Where can I go to hide?
@JeremySauder: @cleithart Retreat! Back to geocities and MySpace!
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Google Reader
I don’t normally make a fuss about format changes on Facebook, and I was actually an early adopter of the revised Gmail look. Redesigns are usually A-OK in my book. But the Google Reader change has me miffed.
As I’ve said on Twitter, the forced integration with Google Plus is what bothers me the most. I had a very tiny circle of people with whom I shared items, and they shared them...
Who gives a stuff about the Act of Settlement? →
“I have to confess that I have always thought it was to the great good fortune of the female members of the royal family that they didn’t have to face the awful prospect of the throne, unless they were unusually deficient in the brother-department….”
Laban’s Trick →
According to Cyrus Gordon (The Bible and the Ancient Near East (Revised Edition)), Laban’s trick of Jacob – Leah for Rachel – put Jacob in an even more vulnerable position than is usually noticed….
October 2011
7 posts
12 tags
A satisfactory weekend
+Went to the Reformation Banquet. +Drank coffee; read Plato. +Ate donuts from the last Farmer’s Market of the year. +Saw a good friend get married. +Ate petit fours that would change your life. +Cheered for a real team in Pumpkin Rugby. Also, it was the winnning team. So, bonus. +Spent way too much time in Walmart sorting through the $5 movie bin. Like, waaaayyyyy too much. I left the...
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“What it does sound like: another Coldplay record, which is to say another group...”
– Esquire’s review of Mylo Xyloto. (Don’t worry, I don’t make a point of reading Esquire - a friend linked to the review)
October 25
Credit to my dad - this is basically a transcription of what he told me over the phone just now.
On October 25 1415, you have a small band of archers defeating a large army of knights, going up against impossible odds and winning.
Again, on the same day in 1854, you have a light brigade of cavalry attacking and capturing (for a brief period of time) Russian artillery in the Crimean...
Questions to ask your local anti-Stratfordian →
A fantastic series of questions that hit at the assumptions of the Oxfordian camp.
ayjay:
1) You argue that William of Stratford couldn’t have written The Plays because he was too poorly educated, while The Plays demonstrate great learning. Are you willing to argue this position consistently? John Keats had an extremely limited literary education, but nevertheless wrote poems that…
“The idea that a doctorate in history prepares one only, or primarily, to teach...”
– No More Plan B:A Very Modest Proposal for Graduate Programs in History (via ayjay)
September 2011
2 posts
“The Quest Hero often encounters an old beggar or an animal who offers him...”
– W. H. Auden (via ayjay)
August 2011
14 posts
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“Almighty God, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works...”
– (via greenandblueworld)
“Every generation must lose its innocence, must see the brightly painted nursery...”
– David Mitchell (not the novelist)
“Sure, people should have known better than to trust a magical card that allowed...”
– Visa Exposed As Massive Credit Card Scam
“Fighting a just war against violent oppressors is not another act of violent...”
– Peter Leithart
Comments
Hey, I finally figured out how to get comments on this here tumblr thing. So now you don’t have to catch this when it sprints by in your facebook news feed (if it even shows up at all) to say something about a post! Cool, huh?
That previous quote
So, apparently they’re making a MOVIE of Paradise Lost. It’s been described as recounting “Milton’s take on the break between the Angel Lucifer and his heavenly brothers in high-action style — think 300 plus Lord of the Rings, in 3D — with great battles in which armies of winged warriors clash. “
Satan, incidentally, will be played by Will Tippin, which just makes me sad;...
“Lucifer was the brightest and smartest of the archangels, and even as he...”
– Say WHAT? ::double take::
“Any more, a wedding is an act of war. A Christian wedding which invokes the...”
– Toby Sumpter
Honey herb soda →
This sounds positively AMAZING. I’m definitely going to make it, as soon as I have enough basil to spare from making pesto. Maybe even before…it’s rather hot in my (upstairs, west-facing) apartment.