Category Archives: Links & Quotes

…for posting one of my favorite parts of the tao te ching onto my blog: Do you want to improve the world? I don’t think it can be done. The world is sacred. It can’t be improved. If you tamper … Continue reading →

I love New Yorker cartoons, but I don’t subscribe to the magazine. Well guess what, they’re online. This is my favorite one from the November 3rd 2008 issue: Am I right? Is this a way to describe politics?

My new favorite song is “Wonderful! Wonderful!” by Johnny Mathis. The wonder of the internet allows me to present it here to you. The man in the video is not Johnny Mathis, but his rendition of the song is truly … Continue reading →

“When they left the rock or tree or sand dune that had sheltered them for the night, the Navajo was careful to obliterate every trace of their temporary occupation. He buried the embers of the fire and the remnants of … Continue reading →

Was rereading parts of Ryszard Kapuściński’s Another Day of Life – a book about Kapuściński’s time reporting on the civil strife in Angola in the mid-1970s – for Reader’s Advisory class and came upon this passage that I felt was … Continue reading →

On my third day in San Francisco, I saw a top-notch exhibit on Shrek author William Steig at the newly opened Contemporary Jewish Museum. It included many sketches, and drawing from his children’s books which were actually written towards the … Continue reading →

“…human thought–and its close relatives, problem solving and planning–seem more rooted in past experience than in logical deduction. Mental life is not neat and orderly. It does not proceed smoothly and gracefully in neat, logical form. Instead, it hops, skips, … Continue reading →

see more funny pics at icanhascheezburger p.s. – I pledge, that even if I had a cubicle, I would not print out pictures from this site and stick them on the walls. I prefer to indulge my bad grammar/funny animal … Continue reading →

“…if I’m anything by a clinical name, I’m a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.” J.D. Salinger, from his short story Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters

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