December 2010
22 posts
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Hospitality Notes 1.1 - Stir Fry and the...
BACKGROUND: A while back, I had some friends over for dinner. As much as I love having guests, working two jobs makes entertaining a wee bit stressful. So much time, so little to do. Strike that…reverse it. Anyway, between getting off work early, cleaning the living room, setting the table, and making sure everything is ready by the time people arrive, I usually only make two out of four....
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“Not surprisingly, patients who escaped depression with the help of...”
– The Depressed Age | Wired Science | Wired.com (via ayjay)
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“David Brewer, a justice of the US Supreme Court delivered a lecture to students...”
– Toby Sumpter: Is it a sin to vote? I’ve pondered this lately, too (especially since I’m a Civics teacher). I think part of it comes down to attitude; maybe it’s analogous to the “meat sacrificed to idols” situation?
A story:
It deals with a game that [Theodore] Roosevelt and I used to play at Sagamore Hill. After an evening of talk, perhaps about the fringes of knowledge, or some new possibility of climbing inside the minds and senses of animals, we would go out on the lawn, where we took turns at an amusing little astronomical rite. We searched until we found, with or without glasses, the faint, heavenly spot of...
“Handed-down wisdom and worked-up information remain the double piers of a cook’s...”
– What : The New Yorker (via ayjay)
WatchI say: this is pretty sweet.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (hitrecordjoe) says:
Ha! Glad this got found, I was so bummed it didn’t get allowed online. Oh, the law. Anyway, holy shit this feels like a long time ago. And since we’re on the subject, please indulge me to thank my friend Michael Rooney who worked tirelessly getting me ready to do this thing. He’s also the choreographer behind the 500...
“There are many people – happy people, it usually appears – whose thoughts at...”
– (via wwnorton)
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth. Don’t build bigger...”
– Go, right now, and read the whole thing at Credenda Agenda. By the ever awe-inspiring Toby Sumpter (@tjsumpter, if you want to look him up on twitter). I said go!
Agenda (Latin: 3rd pl n fut pss prt of agere) I.E....
I have 8 posts stacked up in my drafts folder, waiting for me to work up the gumption to actually finish any one of them. So, instead, I’m writing about what I’m not writing. That’s helpful.
But I also have a stack of papers and quizzes to grade, laundry to do, friends to visit, a choir concert to sing in, packing to finish (after I start), christmas shopping, and a flight...
“Another of the king’s chief men, approving of his wise words and exhortations,...”
– The Venerable Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (II.xiii)
“They aren’t burying their friends.”
– Comment overheard at church: why this generation is different from generations past (via greenandblueworld)
Omni cui multum datum est...
It also means that when you have nothing left to give, you will be asked to give all that you have.
Domine, da quod iubes, et iube quod vis.
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It can always get worse
New England got unexpectedly clobbered in March 1888 when 40 inches of snow fell in a day and a half. Businesses were closed and streetcars abandoned as screaming winds whipped the drifts into house-devouring hills as deep as 50 feet. Thirty trains were paralyzed near New York City, their passengers taken in by nearby residents, and the city’s fire engines lay mired in the streets, unable to...
“Whoever invented jeggings should have gone all the way and made the jeanitard....”
– Scott Simpson (via putthison)
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“Beset with writer’s block, Robert Benchley typed the word The, thinking it “as...”
– And hopefully had a gin-and-tonic. (HT: Futility Closet)
“A company composed wholly of men of learning, though greatly to be valued and...”
– Wise words from Lord Chesterfield to his son, via my friend and colleague Richard Gibson. If only I had received this counsel thirty years ago… . (via ayjay)
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“The very notion in America of four years of a post-high school liberal arts...”
– Not Everyone Needs French - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com (via ayjay)