June 6th, 2007 | Published in General
Due to popular demand (okay, not really) you can now subscribe to this site through e-mail. Or if you only want to receive the “quote of the day,” there is an email subscription for that, too.
September 13th, 2006 | Published in History, Quotes, General
The first clocks did not have dials or hands at all. They did not need them, since their use was to sound the hour.
–Daniel Boorstin, The Discoverers (1983), p. 39
September 12th, 2006 | Published in History, General
It was around 1330 that the hour became our modern hour, one of twenty-four equal parts of a day.
–Daniel Boorstin, The Discoverers (1983), p. 39
July 10th, 2006 | Published in General
As a digression from all these quotes, I wanted to let you know, dear reader, that I’ve updated the site design to be a little cleaner. I moved the page navigation to the sidebar, moved the sidebar to the left, and made the sidebar grey instead of white. I moved the “about” and “latest essays” to the top, as I thought that would be a good introduction. I also reduced a lot of clutter on the sidebar through expandable sections. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming…
March 4th, 2006 | Published in General
The site got a new pair of clothes today along with an upgrade. Goodbye red, hello blue.
December 28th, 2005 | Published in General
I don’t know what happened to my RSS feed, but there’s been an error there for a while and I just noticed and fixed it. So you will now be getting my posts regularly again. My apologies for any inconvenience.
September 23rd, 2005 | Published in General
I don’t normally ask questions to my readers, but humor me: what are your favorite books?
September 12th, 2005 | Published in General
Jane Jacobs (Interviewed by Jim Kunstler)
Ties That Bind at Mealtime (Jonathan Yardley)
Sitting and eating a meal is something a struggling family needs. Strong families are already doing it.
Extremism USA (Douglas Groothuis)
Everything in America has to be biggie size. Groothuis says, “We crave stimulation, bigness, and bravado to hide our inner emptiness and to impress others. But beneath it all is the same needy, shabby self, which can never be cured by the excesses of the flesh.”
Private FEMA: In Katrina’s wake, Wal-Mart and Home Depot came to the rescue.
The beauty of the free market system.