John Ralston Saul, Voltaire’s Bastards (1992), pages: 503-504:
Buddhist societies are horrified by a great deal in the West, but the element which horrifies them most is our obsession with ourselves as a subject of unending interest. By their standards nothing could be unhealthier than a guilt-ridden1, self-obsessed, proselytizing white male or female, selling God [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2007
The inability to mind our own business
25 November 2007 – 10:17 pm
What can happen in 50 years
22 November 2007 – 12:50 pm
Margaret Atwood’s high school year book, 1957.
(From Torontoist)
I’m still at the point where I can’t even imagine fifty-years. My equivalent of this photo (fifty years after graduating from high school) is the year 2043, by which time I hope the world will be unbelievably different in a good way. Bush and Co will long [...]
Q & A
21 November 2007 – 11:00 pm
Rebbecca Young had this in her Facebook, and I’ve decided to fill it out too:
Single or Taken: single
Happy about that: not really
Siblings: a sister
Eye color: brown
Height: 5′11
Can you make a dollar in change right now?: yes considering I’m at my desk and my change jar is to my right.
FAVORITES
Kind of pants: I don’t even [...]
Brian Grazer’s Workspace
20 November 2007 – 9:18 pm
Brian Grazer in his Malibu Home (New York Times)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut (2007)
17 November 2007 – 7:36 pm
07w46:6 : Movie Review: Blade Runner: The Final Cut (1982; 2007)
1982: The first edition of Blade Runner is released on 25 June.
1992: The second edition ‘Director’s Cut‘ is released on 11 July. At the time I’m a student of history and as a pet project I’m trying to write a history of Earth from the [...]
Classic Academic Bullshit
14 November 2007 – 7:37 pm
Goodreads | 2007 week 46 number 5 (Classic Academic Bullshit)
Worth quoting in full (after all, it is a press release) with emph mine:
What’s in a name? Initials linked to success, study shows (Link)
Do you like your name and initials? Most people do and, as past research has shown, sometimes we like them enough to [...]
Goethe’s Taste
11 November 2007 – 9:44 pm
Guercino, Resurrected Christ, 1629 (source)
Goethe, a letter:
Cento, 17 October 1786. Evening
I am writing from Guercino’s home town and in a better mood than I was in yesterday. Cento is a small, clean, friendly town of about five thousand inhabitants. As usual, the first thing I did was to climb the tower. I saw a sea [...]
How to Explain The Internet to someone from the 16th Century
6 November 2007 – 9:15 pm
It’s not so simple as saying we have something called computers which are connected to a network of wires. They’d be like, what? Our intuitive understanding of the Internet comes from our understanding of things like photographs, phones, and television.
So, Galileo walks into a bar…
First, we learned of a way to preserve the image projected [...]
Dante and the Canadian November
6 November 2007 – 5:14 pm
From Goodreads 07w45:3:
November in Canada is a season of two contradictory impulses. The first is the Massey Lectures, a series of five one hour lectures delivered on CBC Ideas for a work-week sometime during this month. The Massey Lectures to me represent some of the better characteristics of our species: the desire to not only [...]
Wordpress Rewrite Rules
6 November 2007 – 12:50 am
I upgraded Wordpress yesterday and ran into some problems today with the .htaccess rewrite rules, which I’ve just fixed. I’m sharing these rules below. This is for people who are looking to write .htaccess rules for their Wordpress setup and need some idea of how to go about doing that.
Note: this is for a custom-structure [...]