Eric Scheske

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ADD, Buddhist Monks, and Misleading Titles

“In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.” Simone Weil A Distracted World The May 25th issue of New York Magazine featured this cover story by Sam Anderson: The Attention Crisis--And Why Distraction May Actually Be Good For You [http:

Feature Essay

The Cell Phone Imbroglio An interesting thing happened at my local high school on Friday. The senior class organized a school-wide prank: the students programmed their cell phone alarms to go off at 10:30. Because cell phones are supposed to be kept in lockers during class, this would result

Twitter Me . . . but Briefly

The evil of Twitter [http://www.ncregister.com/daily/twitter_can_make_you_immoral_claim_scientists/] : [http://www.ncregister.com/daily/twitter_can_make_you_immoral_claim_scientists/] > “Twitter can make you immoral, claim scientists.” So reported the U.K.'s Daily Mail on April 14. Hardcore Register

Did You Know?

Nifty 5-minute video a friend sent earlier this year: I haven't verified the interesting facts in the video, but I know teachers are showing it to their high school students, and the facts seem plausible enough (in an "implausible just ten years ago" way). A few

Gmail

Anybody else use Google Mail? Anybody else have troubles accessing it the past two days? It's like the site has been completely crashed. I couldn't get on all day yesterday, got on last night once, then today it's down again. Go figger.

Stuff for Saturday

This might be the consumer tip of the year so far (okay, so it's only Jan. 5th, it's still a good tip): Asus Eee 4G-Galaxy 7" PC Mobile Internet Device [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000Y33CVM/thedailyeudem-20]. Only $399, and it's

Stuff for Sporadic Saturday

Reminder: I don't blog on Saturdays. I haven't been for about three months. Though I've blogged every Saturday for the last three months, I'm not blogging on Saturdays. If that makes sense, you drank more beer than I did last night at

Electronic Holy Cards

Commercialized? Yes. Crass? I don't think so. Bad? No [http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071204/tc_nm/italy_saints_cellphones_dc]. > If you are a Catholic looking for a saint in heaven to protect you, you no longer have to carry a small "holy card.

Black Wednesday Again?

It's not black because of drinking. It's black because Charter Communications has once again gone down. In all fairness to Charter, it's been months since it has gone down, but (i) if experience is an indicator, this crash portends a series of crashes over

The Screaming Eudemon

Not much today. I had a ton of stuff: Lions draft day (best day to be a Lions fan), my idiot-savant Michael (a second-grader who can barely tie his shoes but has taught himself multiplication and other things, to the general head-shaking amazement of his no-nonsense teacher), beer drinking, etc.