So. Finally. LOS ANGELES : Former US president Ronald Reagan died at the age of 93 after a decade-long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, his office said. Reagan, a two-term president and former Hollywood star, died at his high-fenced home in the fashionable Bel Air section of Los Angeles shortly before 2:00 pm (2100 GMT) Saturday afternoon. Actually, Lime told me about this piece of news this morning, while browsing the net waiting for me to finish cooking. At the time, all I could spare attention to respond was. “Huh. Good. He screwed up America.” She didn’t say anything, but this …
Month: June 2004
Old Poll, New Poll
The other day Shawn told me it was time for a new poll, so here I am, dutifully tabulating the rsults of the last one and wondering what the next one should be about. The winner for most “craziest prediction” was, hands-down with 31% of the 13 votes cast, “Rush Limbaugh will finally just shut up and go away.” Unfortunately, that’s probably true. Runners up included, “Jazz music will enjoy such a revival during the next major war that it will be as popular is in 1950,” and “North and South Korea will reunite and find themselves so powerful that …
Sophist-ication
Hey, there’s some new material up—a lot of it, actually—over at the New Sophists’ Almanac site. Marvin discusses hip-hop and rap, and describes an art work, and I turn our focus, for the time being, to a new question about compassion and moral philosophy. As usual, Marvin responds with intelligence and panache. Aw, hell, maybe it’s just easier to direct you to the site and you can check it out for yourself. Go have a look at New Sophists’ Almanac.
The Joy of Physicality
This week’s F5 is courtesy of Roganda, who asks a short and sweet question: What 5 non-sexual, physical (tactile) sensations do you enjoy most? These might be a little weird, but one thing I’ll say is that I really only began to appreciate these things late in life, maybe a few years ago at best. I used to be quite monastic about things like this, or, well, maybe it was just I was so distracted by the intensity of my emotional life. Maybe the year before I left Korea, I began to appreciate certain physical sensations in everyday life, and …
Enneagram Business
For amusement, Lime asked me to take one of these enneagram tests. I found this one: Conscious self Overall self Take Free Enneagram Personality Test Enneagram Test Results Type 1 Perfectionism |||||||||||| 45% Type 2 Helpfulness |||||| 29% Type 3 Image Focus |||||||||||||||||||| 86% Type 4 Hypersensitivity |||||||||||||||| 61% Type 5 Detachment |||||||||||||||| 68% Type 6 Anxiety |||||||||||||| 57% Type 7 Adventurousness |||||||||||||| 53% Type 8 Aggressiveness |||||||||||| 46% Type 9 Calmness |||| 18% Your Conscious-Surface type is 3w4 Your Unconscious-Overall type is 4w5 Take Free Enneagram Personality Test I don’t put much stock in a test that tries to …