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Arnold Bennett quotes
(from the Moleskine harvest) Quotes from Journal Of Things New and Old, by Arnold Bennett (about 1923) All political parties in all countries disappear sooner or later, except the Conservative, and the Conservative is immortal because it is never for long divided against itself. How many times in Britain has the Liberal Party split? The …
Moleskine harvesting
I recently finished off one of my little squared Moleskine buddies. I don’t number the pages, but I do date every entry. This book was with me from about 30-Mar-04 to 21-April-05. Plenty of pauses for no-entries, but it was with me during significant times. There are entries on the letter Cara sent me that …
The Joys of Total Recorder
Without a doubt, one of the most-used programs on my PC is Total Recorder (I have the Professional Edition), which I use to record RealAudio feeds, most notably the BBC4’s In Our Time series, NPR programs, Edison’s Attic, interviews, All Songs Considered, and whatever else catches my magpie attention. I use MediaPlayerClassic as part of …
Stoicism
I was just listening to a BBC Radio4 discussionon Stoicism and thinking how that and the Tao te Ching seem to be my natural philosophies. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of Constructive Living, but that’s also close to my heart. (Here’s another good place to learn about CL.) I wish I could remember …
AnnualCreditReport
I applied for a state government job a few months ago that required a security background check. The contracting company I was working through used Choicepoint, which of course fills one with confidence. The report came back with three outstanding warrants against my first and last names in Arizona and Virginia. I called Choicepoint to …
The Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot
This one has been making the rounds of late, but it’s especially interesting to me now as 1) I’m taking a writing class focused on plotting and 2) I read a *lot* of those Doc Savage pulps in junior high. (Anyone remember the movie with Ron Ely as Doc? Raise your hands.) (I saw it …
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iSerenity
If you like ambient sounds, like waterfalls or crickets or a fan or the scratch of a pencil on paper, go to iSerenity and try out the sound and image environments they offer. The purring kitty and typewriter with return key bell are special favorites, for minutes at a time.
BioWork-related Links
During the winter of 2005, I took the BioWork program at Durham Technical Community College. It’s a 128-hour course designed to re-tool students to work in biotechnology manufacturing. Given that this area is losing lots of unskilled and skilled manufacturing jobs, and since this area is also attracting biotech manufacturing facilities, BioWork is a good …
The Limits of Reading
Anthony Lane, in an excellent appraisal of PG Wodehouse in The New Yorker (April 19 & 26, 2004 – not online), includes this quote from Marcel Proust: Reading becomes dangerous when instead of waking us to the personal life of the spirit, it tends to substitute itself for it, when truth no longer appears to …
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