May 2003
Vituperation
In Episode 21 of my Fulbright Diaries, I used the word vituperation, which means something like violently harsh, abusive criticism….
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05/31/03
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Nature v. Nurture
An interesting article from Time Magazine on new ideas from the human genome project and the weight of experience on…
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05/29/03
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Capturing the Friedmans
Capturing the Friedmans is a documentary about a child molestation case in Long Island in the late 80s.
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05/29/03
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Gustave Dore
I’ve always liked Gustave Dore’s engravings of the Bible, but I could never find them online except on a Koren…
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05/29/03
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Corn on the Cob
I was watching Friends today (don’t ask) and Penn (from Penn & Teller) was selling Joey some encyclopedias, but he…
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Funnies •
05/28/03
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What is Art?
a week ago i started reading on the internet about the definitions of art, mostly john dewey’s Art as Experience,…
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Explanations •
05/28/03
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Matrix Reloaded
What happens when Star Wars meets Superman meets The Terminator meets War Games? Dan and I saw it today, Matrix Reloaded. Or maybe it should have been titled Crouching Men in Black, Hidden Plot. Well, the special effects were cool.
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05/27/03
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Memorial Day
It is raining as I get up this morning; the kind of rain that will likely last all day. It…
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Observations •
05/26/03
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Tom and Huck don’t live here anymore
[I wrote this in September of 2002 and shared it with Patrick, but I’m not sure if I sent it…
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05/26/03
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Annika Sorenstam
i was wondering about the whole “woman playing in a PGA tournament” thing today, and i decided to do some…
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05/23/03
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QWERTY
here’s an article about restructuring the current keyboard layout. it raises the question (at least to me), how much faster…
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05/22/03
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Truth, Reality, Nonfiction
Just briefly, because it’s (“truth, reality, nonfiction” is) a subject I could write forever about, I wanted to mention a…
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05/15/03
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Hepatitis
Forgive my entering this unpleasant bit of news right after Dad’s beautiful, moving piece to Dan. Pato has Hepatitis A….
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05/15/03
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To Dan, On The Occasion Of His Graduation From The University Of Notre Dame Du Lac
I could say it in one word: con·gra·too·la·tee·ons! It seems only yesterday we were visiting campus for your or·eye·on·ta·tye·on. Now…
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Memories •
05/15/03
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Inspirations/Ruminations
this is my comment to the neil peart/inspirations stuff posted a bit below. i decided to turn it into a…
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Observations •
05/14/03
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Rube Goldberg Reality?
Have a look at this commercial from Honda cars called “The Cog”. It’s got an amazing Rube Goldberg contraption in…
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Puzzles •
05/14/03
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Stuffs
On page 260 of Oliver Sacks’s book, Uncle Tungsten, he writes, in discussing the Curies and their research into radioactive…
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05/13/03
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Self-love, La Rochefoucauld, and -isms
From La Rochefoucauld’s introduction to his Maxims, from Theodore Dalrymple’s essay “Dicovering La Rochefoucauld,” from New Criterion, April 2001, Vol….
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Quotes •
05/13/03
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Worse than Harmless
Recalling Dad’s observation about negative information (where some guy told him a WPHS door was locked, but it really wasn’t),…
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05/13/03
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Inspiration/Discouragement
From an article by Neil Peart: However, the effect [of hearing great drummers] on me was to make me determined…
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05/13/03
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La Rochefoucauld
I just wanted to register here another of those “see it once, then see it everywhere” moments. Do we have…
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Connections •
05/13/03
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Poetry and Meaning
Dad and I were talking a little bit about the meaning of poetry because I gave him a poem to…
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Connections/Funnies/Observations •
05/13/03
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Mother’s Day
We don’t have too many messages to Mom and Karina on this list (and none from them), so I want…
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05/11/03
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Monkeys, Typewriters, Shakespeare
I’ve found links to this on a couple of other blog sites, so I figured why not put it here…
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05/10/03
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Two Towns of Jasper
Last Thursday my school dedicated an entire day to celebrating and learning about diversity. It was billed, “Diversity Day”. Mostly…
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05/06/03
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Living in the Present Tense
I think, somewhat vainly, about living and especially now that i have to do something besides attend school and it…
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05/04/03
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What Is Your Brain Type?
Check out these online tests to determine whether you have a female or male brain (i.e. empathizing or systemizing). I…
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05/02/03
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New Deal Support for the Arts
From Coudal.com I got a link to a government archives page of New Deal supported artwork. I found the artwork…
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05/01/03
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