Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Die Große Stille

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We watched Into Great Silence tonight. There was an oddity or two: the French text had “give up everything and follow me” to be a discipl...

Copyrighting Pyramids

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So Egypt is planning to copyright ancient Egyptian designs, including the pyramids . This should be a great boon to Imhotep and his heirs a...
Thursday, December 20, 2007

Transience and futility of power

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This article was pointed out to me this morning: a meditation on the transience of power by Paul Johnson, about how powerful men fall, like...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

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Candidates I suppose it is coming on for time to examine the presidential candidates. I am angry that they started the process so early--I ...
Friday, December 07, 2007

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Courage This judge has courage . If he believes in the gods, he knows they might show up and charge him
Tuesday, December 04, 2007

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Zap! While waiting for his ride this evening, Youngest Son walked across the rug to sniff the long-stemmed narcissus flowers growing in the...
Monday, December 03, 2007

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Writer's strike I gather that the Hollywood writer's strike is still going on. From what I hear (without detailed knowledge of how...
Sunday, December 02, 2007

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Mines The BBC special report on land mines is interesting. The US comes off rather well, curiously enough, as a non-signatory that has be...
Friday, November 30, 2007

Department Meeting

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The Department meeting today covered a wide range of topics--too many for the time allowed. One that caught my eye was a proposed new cours...
Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Translation music again

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On Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin tonight he played both the French and English versions of "Les feuilles mortes" / "...
Friday, November 23, 2007

The Virtues of War

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by Steven Pressfield I saw that Pressfield had written another book, so of course I read it. This one is about Alexander the Great. As usua...
Sunday, November 18, 2007

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Lazy Sunday We went to church last night instead of this morning, so that we could take some neighbors whose car doesn't work (and whos...

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Making Money by Terry Pratchett This is the latest Diskworld novel. Moist has a new assignment: the Post Office is going well enough tha...
Friday, November 16, 2007

Why not local history?

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I noticed in this article from the Isthmus that Madison was Copperhead territory during the Civil War. Certainly an interesting, if not...
Thursday, November 15, 2007

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Shed preconceptions about mental health maintenance This is brilliant .
Monday, November 12, 2007

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State and Family Youngest daughter had an interesting insight last night. In China, the baleful one-child policy didn't just create ...
Friday, November 02, 2007

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Funny how you can tell I was pretty sick of the rap that came on every time I started the rental car, and couldn't figure out which but...
Sunday, October 21, 2007

Did they mean that?

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In Chalmonix we saw a store called Amazone Lingerie on Ravanel la Rouge. You do remember the legends of the Amazons, who cut off the right...
Wednesday, October 17, 2007

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25% of Germans... Drudge Report linked to a hysterical poll report saying that 25% of Germans found some good in the Nazi government. For ...

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Non-dancing men In the US airports there's a man with two glowing pointers guiding airplanes into the gate. In Brussels, there's n...