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Fasts
Inspired by a friend’s admonition to get off the Internet if I want to feel better, I’m attempting to NOT get on the Web or the PC this week when I get home from work. I will do my finances tomorrow night (that’s when I’ve scheduled to do them), but no free-surfing. Only the task …
Circusmuseum.nl
There’s something wonderfully creepy and other about circus and magic show posters. The color, the stiff poses, the sometimes fantastical and downright bizarre tableaus. The circusmuseum site, in the Netherlands, isn’t in English but you can still sample an excellent presentation of historic circus and sideshow posters from all over the world. I like the …
Doomsday Algorithm
I’ve loved this little trick for years: the Doomsday Algorithm, a creation of Dr. John Conway, he who gave us the game of Life. The Doomsday algorithm gives you the day of the week for any date, based on the last day of February. Lots of great links at the bottom of the page, too. …
Being jealous of myself
I was listening to The Splendid Table show on the drive home from the grocery store yesterday. Lynne Rosetto Kasper was introducing a guest who splits her time between her farm in Provence and writing and teaching in Paris. Lynne closed with, “And yes, we’re jealous.” And I thought, “Well, gosh Lynne, people might be …
Quicken-Killing, or Money Meditations
I expect it was this post on the 43Folders Google Group that got me to thinking about Quicken, money management (surely one of my lifelong meditations), and folding all that into my daily life. The original poster was asking if there was a GTD-like approach to money management that would enable you to get money …
Checklist for fiction writing
Back in the days of iron men and wooden computers, I was a denizen of Compuserve. I loved the OzWin software that let me download tons of forum threads quickly via my dial-up connection, I loved downloading all the software, I carefully tended my forum messages — all long gone now. The Web, Compuserve’s abysmal …
World music from cdRoots
Had I money enough and time to listen to them all, I’d probably have about 20 or so CDs from cdRoots in constant rotation. This kind of music I just find more friendly, more real, more listenable to me. I snagged this from the equally essential Cool Tools website. In his review, Kevin Kelly said, …
Quote – Barbara Holland
I read to Liz before she goes to bed, and lately, we’ve settled on memoirs. The first was a joyous treat, Milking the Moon. Tonight, we just finished Barbara Holland’s When All The World Was Young. These quotes are from the end of the book, where at 18, after being turned out of her family’s …
Quote – Alain de Botton
From Essays in Love It is hard to imagine Christianity having acheived such success without a martyr at its head. If Jesus had simply led a quiet life in Galilee, making commodes and dining tables and at the end of his life published a slim volume titled My Philosophy of Life before dying of a …
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