For some reason, it seems as if not enough questions by other people were added to the F5 question generator, so this week’s is once again mine: Did you know? Most of us have a list of funny little facts in our heads that we relish knowing. We sometimes tell them to other people, or put them in essays or posts in our blogs. Some people even make up “facts” and tell them to other people with a smug sense of “you didn’t know that, did you?” What are your five favorite little-known facts? (And are they true, or made …
Month: June 2004
What Sports Are For
If you see this and think it’s about you, don’t take it personally. Talk to me about it. Post a comment. Think about it and see if you can see my side of things, mind you. I’ve just added a quote to my quotes file, but I’m sure it will run through my mind at the office when I hear people talk for hours and hours about the basketball season now in progress. Something to think about: …[Sports] offers people to pay attention to, that’s of no importance… that keeps them from worrying about things that matter to their lives, …
The big leap.
Yes, I think I’m going to make that big leap today. Tonight, I mean. I should have done it today but I was too busy trying to be productive. I wasn’t. But now, it’s dawning on me that I have enough other things to do that while I am doing those other things, I could be backing up the last few files that need backing up on my computer, and reinstalling Windows. I mean, after all, the only way I can watch DVDs is by going into the task manager, opening DOS, quitting half of the useless processes that are …
For Those Awaiting My Email
… I’m sorry. It’s coming. Today was taken up in large part by my trip to school to teach a class for which half my students didn’t do their prep work, and which they therefore had no reason to attend. And then all hell broke loose.
Over At One Of My Favorite Websites
Here’s a roundup of interesting links I found at the Arts & Letters Daily: The divide between art and science is a fascinating question. We take so many images from science for our art, and scientists sometimes study artistic techniques in order to better portray their work in images. So where’s the line, and what does it matter or mean? This article tries to tackle that question. And some of the art here is interesting too. There’s a great little piece on Stalin and film, which is a connection I knew a little about but not as much as is …