So, beginning next week, I will be exceedingly busy with work ‘n stuff. I will probably only be able to post rarely. If at all.
Since I won’t have time to really monitor the site, I’ve password protected some of my older, more personal posts. (The password is my middle name, a terrestrial-like moniker I share [...]
My new computer. Specs: Dell Inspiron E1405, Intel® Core 2 Duo 1.66GHz (2MB Cache), 2GB RAM, 120GB Hard Drive, Windows Vista Home Premium. I was thinking about going Mac, but they’re pretty expensive.
Question: What is the difference between demure and demur?
Answer: Demure means “reserved or modest.” Demur means to “delay” or “take exception to.”
You may have noticed that Google invested $3.9 million in Sergey Brin’s wife’s startup. Here was my comment on John Battelle’s blog:
(I know—Wolfowitz’s.)
How much does open-heart surgery cost?
Answer: A coronary bypass surgery costs somewhere [...]
This post is the second in what I have hoped to be a weekly celebration of words (but has soon devolved into a desultory deliberation on diction). As always—super good.
The words below also come from a Paul Farmer book; today, it’s The Uses of Haiti. See a few quotes in the previous post.
(Note: definitions [...]
Here are two of the most powerful quotes from Paul Farmer’s The Uses of Haiti. This book isn’t so much an academic essay as it is a simmering diatribe against the developed world’s (and, especially, the U.S.’s) treatment of Haiti. The gist of Farmer’s impassioned argument is that Haiti has been systematically used by foreign [...]
Question: How do former-friends-turned-ideological-enemies break the ice before a meeting?
Answer: Just like everyone else. They tell Bush jokes.
A North Korean general opened the proceedings of a South-Korean military meeting with the following laugher:
Bush goes out jogging one morning and, preoccupied with international affairs, fails to notice that a car is heading straight at him.
A [...]
The set of images I link to below are probably the single most powerful thing I’ve found on the internet. Renée Byer of The Sacramento Bee was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography for the photoset, which details “her intimate portrayal of a single mother and her young son as he loses his battle [...]
Paul used to make these for me all the time. Payback. (See his comment here for circumstantial evidence.)
P.S. On another note, Paul’s taking the MCAT today. Wish him luck.
“See here, this graph is charting your coolness level, on the vertical axis, versus time tn, on the horizontal axis. As you can see, your coolness [...]
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
This post is the first in what I hope to be a weekly celebration of words (but will more likely devolve into a desultory deliberation on diction). As always—super good.
The words here come from Paul Farmer’s dissertation-turned-book, AIDS and Accusation. I quote from it in the post below. For more information on the book—and a [...]