I hear people talk about this a lot, the delusion that many of us operate under that we know what specific people or groups are thinking about us, that we know someone is mad at us because they erroneously think that [whatever]. I heard someone talking about this last night and loved this part of […]
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Overheard today:
Who would you be without your chaos?
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A post from my friend Gretchen Rubin on being a moderator or abstainer led me to a moment of clarity.
I am clearly an abstainer. As Samuel Johnson said, “Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.” There are few things I can do in moderation, and where I have realized that and […]
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There are few things that make me as relieved and joyful as knowing that someone I love is feeling like this:
[L]ife right now is very sweet, so sweet it seems as though I am holding in my hand a fruit in which there is a little round open pool of something liquid, like pomegranate syrup, […]
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My favorite part of the Lord’s Prayer (you weren’t expecting this, I know!) is:
Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
You don’t have to believe in a higher power in order to get something out of this one. At this point in my life (it was not always so), I make […]
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Because you just know that the day you toss that program to your cousin’s 1991 high school graduation some scientist is going to discover that the cure to cancer was written on page two, right after the lyrics to the alma mater, and if only someone in the world had saved a copy! See! Pack […]
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Nice one, Mr. Phelan.
Lots of people I know complain to me about the cost of mobile roaming charges, and are always astounded when I tell them about MaxRoam. The marriage with Dopplr is an obvious play and should be a lucrative one.
Within nine months of its launch in September 2007, MaxRoam had saved […]
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The whole point of tolerance is to tolerate things you find repugnant. Tolerance does not mean acceptance however, so just because you tolerate something ignorant or repugnant, that does not mean you need to refrain from heartfelt criticism of it. However tolerance needs to be conditional: tolerance of intolerance is irrational when the aim of […]
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The Greeks…labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys freedom, puts the minority at the mercy of the mob, and works at cross-purposes to the effective use of human energy and individual initiative.
-Henry Grady Weaver, The Mainspring of Human Progress (via […]
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I know it’s freezing there, but I’m looking forward to it anyway.
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I laughed (and am still laughing) about Jacques Chirac being mauled by his own poodle. Couldn’t happen to a nicer crook.
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We’re #2 on their list of web sites that will matter in 2009. Sweet.
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I almost don’t care if this is real or not. Every word is true.
link via Adriana
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Rishi and I flew back last night, but not before I had the chance to pull some of my Matrix moves as we left the condo.
Anti-climactic but still makes me look like an idiot. That’s what passes for entertainment on this blog.
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