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- During this time of year we get basically two types of holiday movies or specials. The first type is where... |
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- Police target East Dundee under-age drinking and disturbance “hot-spots”. |
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Wild Divine (Dec 11 2003 18:33 GMT) - "Playing Wild Divine also made me more aware of the mental states that I brought to the game. Near the beginning of the journey, you’re asked to light a fire by breathing in sync with bellows that blow air on a pile of logs and kindling. The test is designed to teach the heart breath used by many Yogis to reach a state of balanced calm. Using a more Western language, Smith describes the state as one in which the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems of the body are working in sync with one another, without either one dominating. I found that lighting the fire was impossible in my overcaffeinated morning state. |
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- I just got a notice from Amazon.ca that the book I ordered in September is delayed another 4-6 weeks. So it'll arrive after I leave and after Bill leaves. Apparently it normally ships in 3-5 weeks. We were ordering it for the trip, so I cancelled it. |
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- Gifts: Have I mentioned recently that Academic Legal Writing (especially personalized) would make a nifty and thoughtful gift for your law student / young lawyer friends? Or that David Bernstein's You Can't Say That! The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws would make a great gift for an even wider range of people? Or that the same is true of Randy Barnett's The Structure of Liberty (his Restoring the Lost Constitution isn't due out until early next year), Tyler Cowen ... |
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- A THIN READ: Bill Clinton just announced his 21 favorite books of all time.Conspicupous by its presence on the list: Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton.Conspicuous by its absence: |
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Onion Tears (Dec 11 2003 18:33 GMT) - You can read this book - Onion Tears instead. |
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The Twist (Dec 11 2003 18:33 GMT) - Also recently finished is Richard Calder's phenomenal new novel, The Twist. This is the coolest, damnedest, most kick-ass "western" I've ever read. Calder just keeps getting better and better with everything he writes. And who doesn't love Four Walls Eight Windows anyway? |
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- Now, perhaps I'm just an innocent English professor, but how does one discuss the contemporary state of historiography without analyzing any history? Quite frankly, theorists and philosophers of history would be the last people I'd read if I wanted to take the pulse of history as a discipline, for the following reasons: a) they are rarely historians themselves and b) when they are historians, their theory rarely seems to translate into actual practice. What gets published in History & Theory se ... |
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- Finally, nearly every national poll shows the country is more polarized than it has been in decades. As in 2000, we're still very much a 50-50 nation. (See the forthcoming book, The Two Americas by pollster Stan Greenberg.) Indeed, it's been nearly 16 years since any presidential candidate even won a majority of the vote. A blowout of 1972 or 1984 proportions would require an extraordinary set of circumstances that are not present today. |
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- Jag fick en present av mina pojkar idag! Den r, som alla Kaffe Fassetts alster, underbar!!!De hr bckerna verkar ocks bra:Jonas Gardell: "Om Gud" Monica Ali: |
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- Jag fick en present av mina pojkar idag! Den r, som alla Kaffe Fassetts alster, underbar!!!De hr bckerna verkar ocks bra:Jonas Gardell: "Om Gud" Monica Ali: |
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- "The newly released "Wiley Electrical and Electronics Engineering Dictionary" from Wiley-IEEE Press offers almost 900 pages of definitions for a vast array of electrical engineering terms and acronyms used in today's literature. This reference text is organized to present the desired information in the place it is first looked up. This invaluable resource may be ordered by visiting: http://www. |
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- This is what a co-worker wants me to go do with her this weekend.... During the day, the Beverly Center (mall) proudly presents a traditional Santa, but during some evenings this year, Ol' St. Nick drops the "c" in "chunky" to become Hunky Santa. Yep, the pudgy belly is replaced by six-pack abs and a snug red tank top, with no long white beard in sight. Look for Hunky Santa on Level 6 near the Grand Court, and whether you've been naughty or nice, in whatever sense of those words you choose, you can sit on this Santa's more appealing... |
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- I've blogged a review of Trollope's The Warden at Blogcritics.org. Here's the beginning: Richard Rorty says that fiction is superceding philosophy as the place of moral discourse, and he's glad of it because novels raise questions of what to do within a human context, guiding us not by principles but by our lived sympathy. Anthony Trollope's "The Warden" could be the poster boy for Rorty's position, for it not only develops its moral ideas within a context of love and strong personality, it even reflects on the inadequacy of principle as a guide to behavior. |
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- Joku joskuskysyi kuinka ASP.NETiss onnistuu sivun sytetyn datan resetointi npprsti ilman redirecti tai jokaisen kontrollin manuaalista lpikynti ja bindatun datan uudelleen lataamista. Ongelma tuli vastaan itsellenikin kun kentti oli paljon, eik droppeja vlttmttollut tarvetyhjent. Itse ratkaisin asian nin(C#), jos siit vaikka olisi kysyjllekin apua. |
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- The issue is whether the GPL can be used to launder code, not whether it's constitutional in itself. In other words, can someone take contractually protected works, give them to a third party that releases them under the GPL, and then take back the new GPL code as if the original contract didn't exist? |
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- Article in the latest APA Monitor - "Many of the tests used in research to demonstrate age-related decline in executive functioning--processes thought to control other cognitive operations--may not go far enough in differentiating these control functions from other processes, say psychologist Timothy Salthouse, PhD, and colleagues at the University of Virginia, in a study published in this month's Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (Vol. 132, No. 4)." |
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- Article in the latest APA Monitor - "Many of the tests used in research to demonstrate age-related decline in executive functioning--processes thought to control other cognitive operations--may not go far enough in differentiating these control functions from other processes, say psychologist Timothy Salthouse, PhD, and colleagues at the University of Virginia, in a study published in this month's Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (Vol. 132, No. 4)." |
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- Article in the latest APA Monitor - "Many of the tests used in research to demonstrate age-related decline in executive functioning--processes thought to control other cognitive operations--may not go far enough in differentiating these control functions from other processes, say psychologist Timothy Salthouse, PhD, and colleagues at the University of Virginia, in a study published in this month's Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (Vol. 132, No. 4)." |
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- One of my friends had a birthday last Thursday. I decided to go all out, and get her the best... |
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- A painting of field workers by Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh, bought at a flea market 12 years ago for 1,500 euros ($1,800), is expected to fetch up to three million euros ($3.6 million) at an auction in France Saturday. Organizers of the sale in the small town of Portets in southwestern France are bracing for a flood of visitors. ¬> |
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- Following is a transcript of remarks by President Bush at the Bush-Cheney 2004 Luncheon at McLean, Va.: |
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- So, just exactly how sad was the Dallas Music Festival? So utterly unnoticed that my Keystone-fueled rant about the crappy Dallas music scene is on the first page of Google when you look for it. Let me put that another way: not a single bit of press from the Big Media. So far, not a single bit of press from Little Media, but I imagine the so-called "festival" stretched past their cut-off for getting the stripper/massage ads out. |
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- Floundering Falcons fire Dan Reeves Dan Reeves was fired abruptly by the Atlanta Falcons on Wednesday with three games left in a disappointing season marred by star Michael Vick's injury. Defensive coordinator Wade Phillips will take over as head coach for the rest of the season. Falcons owner Arthur Blank told Reeves -- the sixth-winningest coach in NFL history -- that he would be fired at the end of the season, but asked him to coach the final three games. Reeves, a former Cowboy player and assistant coach, asked to be let go immediately. What a horse's ass -- you're fired, but would you mind sticking around so I don't have to bother with promoting anybody and maybe paying them more money? |
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Get on Up! (Dec 11 2003 18:31 GMT) - Powell appoints 'minister of funk' (December 9, 2003) Powell made Brown's appointment public on Saturday while hosting a dinner for winners of the annual Kennedy Centre Honours - awarded to US artists and performers for outstanding work - of which Brown was one this year. "James, you know, I really could use you," Powell told Brown, according to a transcript of his remarks at the dinner released by the State Department today. "I could use you on those diplomatic conferences that I have to go to, sitting there all day long (in) meetings that went on forever and ever," he said to laughter from the guests. "Man, you could have livened up things at the end of a long day, when we're all dying to reach an agreement on something!" Powell said, before announcing: |
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- For the independent Texas Music lover on your Christmas list, the good news is that there is a plethora ("would you say I have a plethora of them?") of great choices out there. The one I'm going to pick out for you here is not necessarily my favorite -- I couldn't make that choice with a gun to my head. But it's by far the one I'm the most happy about. It's the Thrift Store Cowboys new one, The Great American Desert. |
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- Check out the buffalo pics at Kevin's joint, from the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Oklahoma. Those are some awesome beasts. |
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