A Momentary Taste of Being

March is such a wonderful month--with yesterday as Pi day and today with the Ides.  So many different things to celebrate.

You only cease to need an editor when you cease to right.

I wouldn't want to be the one to seek out one scarier.  El Camino del Rey

Thanks to Julie: 22 Manly Ways to Reuse an Altoid Tin

A Template for every lame argument you've ever seen on facebook

Jack LaLanne R.I.P.

When information changes faster than you can parent

LoA considers the year in blog

Gravitational Anarchy I am struck at once by two things--the amazing fragility of the human body and mind and the amazing resilience of the human body and mind.  Human beings were able to survive Auschwitz, Dachau, Birkenau, but a cold can kill someone.  It is really quite a mystery, quite astounding, and quite moving if one thinks on it enough.

The iPad and Business Travel --I'm not quite there yet; and being a very heavy user I would have to have the charger with me.  But I discovered on my last trip to Dublin I could have left the monster machine behind, almost.  I've got to pick up a couple of apps for spreadsheet and wordprocessing work--but the iPad has become (almost) my machine of choice.  The lack of viability for Flash, however, is a serious downside to much of what I want to do--so many of the Android machines seem to have appeal.  Hope Apple backs off of a stand that really isn't viable.  Did they really think the internet was going to bow to their odd decree?  I suppose only dwindling market share will reveal the problem. Saw an advertisement for the iPad in which it noted you could multitask.  Unless the new OS adds this, I would say that the claim is, at best, an exaggeration.  Still, with the right apps, it is sufficient for most business needs, and I want to move it int...

Those of you who have been exposed to my iPad typing will know that in addition to conjoined words, we often end up with the phenomenon described in this article.   Ah, the pleasures and the perils of typing in the autocorrect world.

"Life looks very strange"

Amusing enough and certainly nothing you ever learn about in school via Books Inq.

Resolving for New Year's?  You couldn't do much better than this.

30 Dumb Inventions of the Twentieth Century via Books Inq.  and Paul Davis on Crime

Katyn

We're given a brief peek into the wild world of Christmas decor--tasteless nativities

The Assassination for JFK But wait, there's more.  For on this same day the literary world lost both Aldous Huxley and C. S. Lewis.

(thanks to Mockingbird) How often do you see language like this in a financial editorial in NYT: from "Sin and Taxes" (editorial in the New York Times) David Brooks For centuries, American politicians did not run up huge peacetime debts. It wasn’t because they were unpartisan or smarter or more virtuous. It was because they were constrained by a mentality inherited from the founders. According to this mentality, a big successful nation exists in a state of equilibrium between its many factions. This equilibrium is fragile because we are flawed and fallen creatures and can’t quite trust ourselves. So all of us, but especially members of the leadership class, should practice self-restraint. Moral anxiety restrained hubris (don’t think your side possesses the whole truth) and self-indulgence (debt corrupts character). This ethos has dissolved, on left and right. The new mentality sees the country not as an equilibrium, but as a battlefield in which the people,...

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