If you cannot write well, you cannot think well, and if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you. George Orwell
An Opportunity for Immortality
Going back to this post, keeping a database of everybody’s book/video/music influences would be a major nuisance and a waste of resources better used for other things. You can’t count on everyone having such things listed in a profile or…
Feedback Requested: Ideals Don’t Have to Stop at Death
A friend who still does volunteer work with Freecycle mentioned that someone asked a question on the big international moderators’ list. Does the organization have anything set up to honor moderators who die? The question hadn’t been answered officially yet,…
“Take off your emotional clothes and sing”
I don’t want to lose this quote, so here it is. Using a vivid metaphor that acknowledged the scariness of the enterprise, she explained, “We have to find the courage to take off our emotional clothes.” Ms. Cook elaborated on…
QOTD: Harold Wilson
I am an optimist. But I am an optimist who takes his raincoat. –Harold Wilson (1916-1995)
Two Things
This sounds like so much fun! I would LOVE to go. A Prairie Home Companion At Sea: Alaska 2006 And a quick quote: Intelligent Design is lipstick on the pig of Creationism. Dan Neil, “In God and Darwin We Trust,”…
Short Attention Span Entry, Little Actual Content
Loc8tor – I can’t begin to imagine how much time we’d save with something like this. I don’t lose my glasses, since I have to wear them all the time. (Ask sambear about how badly I panic if I wake…
Tossing Another Family Tradition
I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim…. –Frida Kahlo
QOTD: Charles Reznikoff
The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly. –Charles Reznikoff, poet (1894-1976)
QOTD: Northrop Frye
Literature encourages tolerance – bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they’re so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can’t see them also as possibilities. -Northrop Frye, writer (1912-1991)