Sticky notes
At work, I have lots of time to think. The result is lots of thoughts scribbles on sticky notes.
Best name ever: Egbert Squires
Need to find: Jukebox the Ghost's single "Hold it In"
Superstition in Africa: SHOULD it disappear because it pushes people too far? (As in the murder of albinos to make medicine.) Is there a place for it? What about the male Western rhetoric applied to the problem: that superstition demonstrates underdeveloped "logic" and "reason"? Not every aspect of society should be "logical." But how to draw the line between the mysteries and abstractions which make life beautiful and dangerous fanaticism.
Yay! Hilary Clinton's saying Israelis need to stop unlawfully occupying land captured during the 6 yrs war! Nothing can be solved with the circular logic both sides use: We'll keep bombing until they stop building. We'll keep building until they stop bombing.
Obama's green stimulus package -- neat idea.
Poem about stories percolating and burning?
Magic = nameless experience. The importance of life beyond wireless internet -- a constant stream of facts hides life's mysteries of consciousness and death.
Worst last name ever: Selfinger. Probably pronounced "SELF-injure" which is bad enough, but can also be read "self-finger"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibiza#Nightlife
Susan Boyle: calling her "Susan" on the BBC. Why not "Boyle," "Susan Boyle," "Miss Boyle"? How often do we talk about Austen and not Jane Austen, Woolf and not Virginia Woolf, Earnhardt without her Amelia? But Einstein, Forester, Bach, the men are just a last name. But of course, without a first name, how would we know SHE was an exception to the rule: if successful, one is a HE.
The host of "World Have Your Say" called a female journalist "cranky" for not appreciating the fact that, because of her looks and age, everyone assumed Boyle wouldn't be able to sing for shit. But when a man called her "grotesque" that was okay. Holy smokes, BBC. Might as well've told the journalist she was having a hysterical fit.
Best name ever: Egbert Squires
Need to find: Jukebox the Ghost's single "Hold it In"
Superstition in Africa: SHOULD it disappear because it pushes people too far? (As in the murder of albinos to make medicine.) Is there a place for it? What about the male Western rhetoric applied to the problem: that superstition demonstrates underdeveloped "logic" and "reason"? Not every aspect of society should be "logical." But how to draw the line between the mysteries and abstractions which make life beautiful and dangerous fanaticism.
Yay! Hilary Clinton's saying Israelis need to stop unlawfully occupying land captured during the 6 yrs war! Nothing can be solved with the circular logic both sides use: We'll keep bombing until they stop building. We'll keep building until they stop bombing.
Obama's green stimulus package -- neat idea.
Poem about stories percolating and burning?
Magic = nameless experience. The importance of life beyond wireless internet -- a constant stream of facts hides life's mysteries of consciousness and death.
Worst last name ever: Selfinger. Probably pronounced "SELF-injure" which is bad enough, but can also be read "self-finger"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibiza#Nightlife
Susan Boyle: calling her "Susan" on the BBC. Why not "Boyle," "Susan Boyle," "Miss Boyle"? How often do we talk about Austen and not Jane Austen, Woolf and not Virginia Woolf, Earnhardt without her Amelia? But Einstein, Forester, Bach, the men are just a last name. But of course, without a first name, how would we know SHE was an exception to the rule: if successful, one is a HE.
The host of "World Have Your Say" called a female journalist "cranky" for not appreciating the fact that, because of her looks and age, everyone assumed Boyle wouldn't be able to sing for shit. But when a man called her "grotesque" that was okay. Holy smokes, BBC. Might as well've told the journalist she was having a hysterical fit.