So you have achieved your dream of making a ton of money and have been accepted to membership in an exclusive country club. But you still feel dissatisfied because you do not stand out from your fellow members as being obviously more wealthy than they, since all of you drive the same expensive cars, wear the same expensive clothes, and use the same expensive golf clubs. [Read more…]
I hardly ever text people and very rarely do I receive any text messages myself so I am not aware of the conventions of that world. But I am aware that texting can be very convenient in certain situations, while at the same time sometimes requires decoding to get at what the sender is actually saying. [Read more…]
The phenomenon of ‘sockpuppetry’, the creation of alternate characters by an individual to create the impression of greater support for that person or that person’s point of view than is actually the case, is something that I have written about before. (See here, here, and here.) [Read more…]
For some reason, I find certain phrases particular jarring. Three that immediately come to mind are:
“In any way, shape, or form”
“The last time I checked”
“Make no mistake about it” [Read more…]
I noticed yesterday a sharp spike in the statistics of those who came to this blog, about ten times the normal daily traffic. I initially idly wondered if the counter had developed a glitch but I then received a Facebook posting from a former student that said that one of my posts had made the front page of Reddit, which explained it. The post in question was this one. [Read more…]
The local branch of Americans United for Separation of Church and State is having a forum on the above topic.
Date and Time: Wednesday, July 10, 6:30-9:00 pm (i.e., today)
Where: The Moot Court room in CWRU Law School building, 11075 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio.
The program is free and open to all and refreshments will be served afterward. [Read more…]
On my way home from work, there is a stretch of road that has two closely spaced intersections with traffic lights that have large amounts of cross traffic. So naturally when I approach the first intersection, I stop at the lights even when they are green if I see that the traffic is backed up ahead so that I cannot clear the intersection. This is for the obvious reason that if I have to stop in the middle of the intersection and the lights change, then I would be blocking the cross traffic which has green lights. [Read more…]
The local branch of Americans United for Separation of Church and State is having a forum on the above topic.
Date and Time: Wednesday, July 10, 6:30-9:00 pm
Where: The Moot Court room in CWRU Law School building
The program is free and open to all and refreshments will be served afterward. [Read more…]
I hate wasting food. I really hate it. Hence I also hate things like food fights, sculptures made of butter and other foods, and any other occasion where people use food for things other than providing nourishment or eating pleasure. My strong feelings may be due to growing up a country where access to food was not taken for granted. [Read more…]
An Australian nurse who spent years working in palliative care looking after dying people during the last twelve weeks of their lives, recorded their epiphanies at the end of life and has compiled a list of their top five regrets.