Eric Scheske

People who purchased Olive Garden's seven-week unlimited pasta pass are being told that they must show their ID in the restaurant to prevent fraudulent use of the cards. Unfortunately, by Week 5 none of them will look anything like their IDs. It's been discovered that a

> This professor turned a 36 square-foot dumpster into a livable home http://t.co/dI8uUF7fSA pic.twitter.com/Mn6NnuNvWd [http://t.co/Mn6NnuNvWd] > — The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) September 11, 2014 [https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/510207640979668994]

> For Scotch makers, single malt's best in a single country: http://t.co/9AiOKpfHFT pic.twitter.com/FcO4OaZmAF [http://t.co/FcO4OaZmAF] > — Bloomberg News (@BloombergNews) September 11, 2014 [https://twitter.com/BloombergNews/status/510096803761774592]

H.I.F. October is already a great feast month (Francis, Lisieux, others). It just got better: "The Feast Days of Saints John XXIII and John Paul II will be on October 11th and October 22nd respectively, the Vatican has announced." Link [http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/

> What better way to finish off a long day spent writing about the Julio-Claudians? pic.twitter.com/6kl9UlEzVk [http://t.co/6kl9UlEzVk] > — Tom Holland (@holland_tom) August 24, 2014 [https://twitter.com/holland_tom/status/503593507710582784]

BYCU This article came out at Listverse on Wednesday: 10 Ways Alcohol Created Modern Society [http://listverse.com/2014/09/10/10-ways-alcohol-created-modern-society/]. Don't worry: it doesn't insinuate that alcohol is to blame for this monstrosity known as "modernity." It's just a list

> Now on tap at upscale bars: Craft cocktails. http://t.co/Aml9m9oaLc pic.twitter.com/mO1hMj9CG3 [http://t.co/mO1hMj9CG3] > — Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) September 11, 2014 [https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/510204659894849538]

Ludwig Wittgenstein has interested me for quite awhile. He's interested me enough to download his Tractatus to my Kindle for 99 cents, which, of course, makes me an intellectual heavyweight, though I've read scarcely any of it and haven't understood what I have read.

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a file full

H.I.F. A pretty wild piece of tornado footage [http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=984_1410195197]. Takes about 30 seconds. I've never seen anything like it.