I love it when a plan comes together
An almost every episode utterance from John "Hannibal" Smith on the A-team. I just like saying it even if my plans never quite come together in a tidy one-hour episode.
So I wrote a little about A Fine Balance on Wednesday. Interesting story about state sponsored birth control in the NYTimes.com. (registration required, but it's free and hey you get some great fiction if you search the archives for Jayson Blair).
Short weeks seem like the longest. Having Monday off made this week stretch forever.
Thursday, November 06, 2003
Meetings, appointments and things to do
suck. I have too many of all 3.
Now reading Rumpole for the Defence
. About a British lawyer. I was told they made it into a series on PBS but I haven't seen it. Just started reading it on the recommendation of a co-worker.
I now fully understand the meaning of "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink". You have to live it to really understand it.
suck. I have too many of all 3.
Now reading Rumpole for the Defence
. About a British lawyer. I was told they made it into a series on PBS but I haven't seen it. Just started reading it on the recommendation of a co-worker.
I now fully understand the meaning of "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink". You have to live it to really understand it.
Wednesday, November 05, 2003
Money makes the world go round and commit suicide
I love how economics can explain anything. Cool article at Slate describing the economics of suicide. It becomes so clear when you break it down in dollars and cents.
Forgot to mention that I finished A Fine Balance. It has a really bad ending. Not bad as in "terrible writing" but bad as in "these people have (had) lives that suck!". The whole book was still largely about India in the mid 70's as seen through the lives of the 4 main characters. Makes you really want to question state-sponsored birth control, no matter how noble the cause.
Read a really short book called Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. Only about 120 pages, but it's sort of a mathematical, philosophical type book that makes you think about what is possible and what is impossible. The underlying theme is that what we consider impossible may only seem that way because of our perspective.
The main character is a square who lives in Flatland, which is just a 2 dimensional plane. He goes to Lineland and encounters characters who exist only in a line. Then he is visited by a sphere from Spaceland who shows him 3 dimensions. The sphere gets very upset whenever Square wants to see the 4th and 5th dimensions. The Sphere tells him that is nonsense, there are no other dimensions. But why not? Only because the Sphere has never seen them. Deep.
I love how economics can explain anything. Cool article at Slate describing the economics of suicide. It becomes so clear when you break it down in dollars and cents.
Forgot to mention that I finished A Fine Balance. It has a really bad ending. Not bad as in "terrible writing" but bad as in "these people have (had) lives that suck!". The whole book was still largely about India in the mid 70's as seen through the lives of the 4 main characters. Makes you really want to question state-sponsored birth control, no matter how noble the cause.
Read a really short book called Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. Only about 120 pages, but it's sort of a mathematical, philosophical type book that makes you think about what is possible and what is impossible. The underlying theme is that what we consider impossible may only seem that way because of our perspective.
The main character is a square who lives in Flatland, which is just a 2 dimensional plane. He goes to Lineland and encounters characters who exist only in a line. Then he is visited by a sphere from Spaceland who shows him 3 dimensions. The sphere gets very upset whenever Square wants to see the 4th and 5th dimensions. The Sphere tells him that is nonsense, there are no other dimensions. But why not? Only because the Sphere has never seen them. Deep.
Tuesday, November 04, 2003
I'm such a slacker!
Ok, so if anyone reads this, i've been off for over a week now. I barely logged onto the internet during that time. Very little TV. Hardly any reading. What have I been doing? you ask. I removed all the old wallpaper from my kitchen and then repainted it. I thought it would take 2 days to remove the wallpaper and a day and a half to paint. Reality: 5 days to remove, 2 days to paint. Ugh. The kitchen looks good now though.
Sorry I'm a loser slacker. I feel like I was in a cave for the last week. I don't know anything that's going on. I still have the smell of wallpaper remover and paint fumes in my brain.
Ok, so if anyone reads this, i've been off for over a week now. I barely logged onto the internet during that time. Very little TV. Hardly any reading. What have I been doing? you ask. I removed all the old wallpaper from my kitchen and then repainted it. I thought it would take 2 days to remove the wallpaper and a day and a half to paint. Reality: 5 days to remove, 2 days to paint. Ugh. The kitchen looks good now though.
Sorry I'm a loser slacker. I feel like I was in a cave for the last week. I don't know anything that's going on. I still have the smell of wallpaper remover and paint fumes in my brain.
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