Eric Scheske

A real life Shire, right in Oregon [http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1158114405236120.xml&coll=7] . > The houses -- going for $550,000 to $850,000 -- will feature gabled roofs with faux-straw thatch made from thin strands of PVC that promotional literature says

For those who haven't seen it yet: there are some pretty funny t-shirts over here [http://www.thoseshirts.com/tshirts.html]. A few are a bit nauseating, but most are funny.

Leave it to Gaddafi to provide me with one decent post today [http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1992419.html?menu=news.quirkies], just minutes before I leave for my fourth and last lengthy meeting of the day: > Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi claims Coca Cola is African and

Blogging will be light. I'm tied up in meetings all day. It doesn't happen often, but when it does, any activity besides survival is impractical. Hopefully, I'll break loose later this morning for a spell.

The whole idea of ecological psychology got me wondering about a lot of things. Can it explain better why a bar makes a person feel more like drinking (or why I drool when I walk up to a bar--or is that a simple Pavlovian thing)? What does it say

From the current issue of Books & Culture [http://www.christianitytoday.com/books/]: > Our surroundings call forth certain behavior. We tend to act like students when we step in a classroom, and we tend to act like shoppers at the mall. This is . . . the logic of 'ecological psychology&

It's 3:55 (EDT), and here's the scene: I'm on the family room couch. The room is basically clean and not getting messed up. From the living room, there's piano music: not kids practicing, but the likes of David Syme [http://www.