Thankfulness…
Thursday, 26 November 2009Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday. It’s often filled with heaping doses of good things like friends, family, and food. It’s the least commercialized of the major American holidays. And the theme, thankfulness, is one worth spending more than one day a year on. (The lamest thing that I saw on the internet all day was [...]
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On a Parent’s Love
Wednesday, 25 November 2009I encountered this quote in the September 2009 issue of The Atlantic. The quote was almost a throw away line starting mid-sentence in a (rather strange, not entirely agreeable) essay by Caitlin Flanagan titled “Sex and the Married Man.” “[U]ntil you’ve [had a child of your own] you’re just guessing about love, gesturing toward it, [...]
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Bruce Schneier is Not Afraid
Monday, 23 November 2009Really enjoying John Gruber’s new Tumblr, Fraidy Cats, logging the (mostly stupid) things that many of our so-called leaders are saying about terrorists and terrorism. And he mixes in some quotes from those who are not afraid. Like this great quote from security expert Bruce Schneier. The surest defense against terrorism is to refuse to [...]
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New Orleans
Sunday, 15 November 2009I thought this was a really interesting description of New Orleans, in “Houses of the Future” by Wayne Curtis, an article in the November 2009 issue of The Atlantic. I will further note that this quote is in service of an argument with which I don’t really agree, but it’s an accurate description of the [...]
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