How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. Annie Dillard My “Jumping Out" Journey – Discussion Forum – Get Everything Done Source: markforster.net
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Is grad school a good idea?
Penelope Trunk trots out one of her regularly visited themes: why grad school is a bad idea. It rankled me a bit but I do have to remember that she’s talking to twenty-somethings and I’m a forty-odder. Her advice would be right-on to my 23-year-old self: I had very little direction, a graduate degree would …
Financiers tell their not-for-attribution account of the mortgage crisis like this: Americans undersaved and overspent for decades, relying on rising property values to bankroll their lifestyles. But nobody on Wall Street forced United States homeowners to take out loans on houses they couldn’t afford, or refinance mortgages to spend money on cars they shouldn’t have …
Research Journal for my 780 class
Cover of 7 Up Since our 780 Research Methods class doesn’t have a Blackboard site for the class, I’ll post my various links and thoughts to the blog, tagged with “780.” I wonder if Michael Apted’s wonderful Up series of documentary interviews would be an example of a kinda sorta longitudinal study or panel study? …
Those whom history has judged as great often came from less and strived for more than wealth. High compensation doesn’t attract the very best. It attracts the greediest. Letters – Wall St. Bonuses – Enough Is Enough – NYTimes.com Source: The New York Times
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Owl and Cat calligraphy (via peacay) Source: Flickr / bibliodyssey
But forced idleness is a good thing, especially for a workaholic like I, and while I feel as if the knowledge I used to use at work, such as my ability to distinguish Jenson and Caslon (or Sunday and Monday), or the keystroke commands for Flash MX, are seriously diminished, it’s been replaced by the …
Annoying Firefox problem fixed
For the last couple of months, I’ve had an incredibly annoying problem in Firefox, when entering text into text boxes: the cursor would disappear, the text box would appear to lock up, and I’d have to click inside the text box to resume typing. Often, too, I’d hit the Backspace key and this would jump …
And yet even though this Christian nonviolence is in many ways the most mainstream aspect of this radical figure who’s become a mainstream icon, it’s something that none dare take seriously today. Matthew Yglesias » King and Nonviolence Source: yglesias.thinkprogress.org
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