Miscellaneous

Announcing New Feature I read over the weekend that Dennis Dutton died. Dutton was the creator of Arts & Letters Daily [http://www.aldaily.com/], one of the best websites in the cyberworld (which he sold in 2002 but continued to edit). For simple elegance (published as a 18th-century

Johnny Horton Stuff I know Anchorage is in southern Alaska, but I would've thought it was night time at least 18 hours a day right now. No matter: They're hosting their 16th Annual Great Alaska Beer & Barley Wine Festival [http://www.alaskadispatch.com/culture/shop-

As part of my return to post-Christmas normalcy, I dug into my study last weekend. It had gotten to be a pit. I put in an island of bookshelves, using them to establish an economics/investment section of my library, then rearranged much of the other furniture. I was

Talebisms If you didn't know about it, Nassim Taleb has an online notebook [http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/notebook.htm]. I'm not sure whether he regularly adds to it, but there's a ton of prose on it already. I downloaded it to my iPad and

Tuesday Miscellany I'm leaning toward the Alex Jones explanation on this one: Government secret testing may have killed all those fish and birds in Arkansas [http://www.infowars.com/is-mass-bird-and-fish-die-off-connected-to-government-testing/] . Sure, violent weather could've killed the

What would de Caussade [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Pierre_de_Caussade] say about the new year? Would the author of The Sacrament of the Present Moment condemn the constant "looking back/looking forward" disposition that marks these days? I suspect he'd find it harmless

"I want you to be happy on earth. But you won't be if you don't get rid of that fear of suffering." Escriva

Twitter Man, this holiday season is getting away from me. I don't even feel that busy, but then I look at all the crap I have to do and, whew, I wonder where the time has gone. * * * * * * * I watched the original Night of the Living Dead (1968) yesterday,

Monday Moanin' Man, travel wears me out. I went to my in-laws on Thursday and came back yesterday afternoon. Everything went well and it was an enjoyable visit, but I was dizzy-tired all day yesterday. Couldn't shake it. I finally crashed before 9:00, slept

Random Stuff I took the four eldest to see Unstoppable Tuesday night. I highly recommend the movie for a parent that wants to spend a fun 100 minutes with his boys. It's not a great movie, but it's intense, action-packed, and just a little violent.