1918
It was 90 years ago today that the fighting of World War I between the Allies and Germany ceased, on 11 a.m. on 11 Nov. 1918 -- now variously commemorated as Veteran's Day (U.S. only), Armistice Day,...
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You Can't Be Judgmental (And Yet)
I've watched most of season 5 via Hulu on my laptop. "Lucky Thirteen" (5x05) -- genius show. "Joy" -- again the realisation that House says what most people are really thinking but automatically...
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Recent Reading
Woman killed by husband's coffin (11 Nov.) God's Facebook Wall (12 Nov.) Apparent 6th severed foot found in British Columbia (12 Nov) Two Dead in Argument Over 'Bama-LSU Game (10 Nov.) The Essential...
View ArticleWelcome Home, Stranger!
I. love. it. Travellers welcomed home at the airport by 20 total strangers carrying signs, banners, balloons, and flowers.
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Delusions, Illusions
Reading lots, between my inter-library loaned crime novels -- finished Tana French's The Likeness last week, am reading PD James' new Dalgleish novel, The Private Patient, now, and have Reginald...
View ArticleIrony - Now, More Than Ever
At least, that's what Joan Didion seemed to say, per a NYT article, at a talk she gave a week after the U.S. election, when she "lamented that the United States in the era of Barack Obama had become...
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Plan to Take Over World, in 11 Easy Steps
There's a lot going on here ... Comments interesting, too ...
View ArticleIntuitive or Sensory or Both?
My blog and I have parted ways on the Myers-Briggs personality analysis. I've tested as an INTP for many years now. This blog, on the other hand, is apparently an ISTP. You can test any blog here...
View ArticleMarkets in Everything, Xmas Edition
Marginal Revolution points to two tinsel-tinted selling opps: (1) Crapwrap: Have your package wrapped as badly as you would do it. The service costs $9 and more than 500 people have signed up for...
View ArticleMimesis, Psych 201 and Jeans
Deep Glamour's "What Your Jeans Say About You" (other than, "These are the only ones I could find that fit me ...") reports on a ground-breaking study in the Journal of Consumer Research that finds...
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