Eric Scheske

A Dozen . . . . . . from Nassim Taleb: "The most painful moments are not those we spend with uninteresting people; rather, they are those spent with uninteresting people trying hard to be interesting." "The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases,

Fr. Martin points out [https://www.facebook.com/FrJamesMartin]: "Eight out of the 28 Jesuit colleges made it to the NCAA basketball tournament this year: Gonzaga, Georgetown, Xavier, Marquette, Creighton, Loyola Maryland, St. Louis University, and University of Detroit-Mercy. That's over one quarter of our schools.

Miscellany Seneca on Exercise Nassim Taleb is a fan of Seneca. Art De Vany (of Cave Man Diet fame) reads Taleb. Seneca, it turns out, backs De Vany's opinion regarding proper exercise. From Letter 15 [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Letter_15]: > Now

"We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or munificence. However, gentleness, meekness, moderation, modesty, and humility are graces which ought to color everything we do." St. Francis de Sales

Not much blogging this morning. Our local high school played in the District Championship in Kalamazoo last night. We won. My godson (a Senior) is our starting point guard; my son is a back-up guard (a Freshman who was moved up for the playoffs). Late night=light blogging. * * * * * * * The

A friend sent along the above picture of his consolation after spending a long day at Disney with his daughter. I thought it was a great pic. BYCU Has anyone heard of the website Livability? From what I gather, it's a site dedicated to alerting people to great

Fr. Sammie and Other 100.8 and 41. Those are the minimum-maximum temperatures in my hobby greenhouse over the past 24 hours. I was really blown away by that 101. I knew it got hot in there, but not that hot. It should give me good perspective on what

No Eudemon Wednesday "Insufferable"? That's probably the best word I can use to describe Miley Cyrus. She's what, 20? And she exhibits all the pseudo-wisdom and arrogance of a 20-year-old, magnified by 50. In this article [http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/

Hollywood Quotes “In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.” Rita Rudner “Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.” Lionel Barrymore “It's a scientific fact. For every year a person lives in Hollywood,

Gaylumbus So I'm at a party this weekend. A friend tells me about three colleges that her talented son is considering: Michigan, Stanford, and Ohio State. He apparently has a shot at getting into all of them. I responded that Stanford is easily the best of those three,