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Monthly Archives: November 2007
Milestones and archives
Friday, November 30th, 2007
(The post title has been stolen flatteringly copied from isoglossia.com for the obvious reason that it works for me as well as overlaps with their post.) Recently I started getting emails and comments from people about my upcoming 10,000th photo on Flickr. What was I going to do for number 10,000? It had better be [...]
Ain’t no use in jivin’
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Yesterday as Ogre and I walked from the parking lot to the front door of the Harris Teeter, we almost caught up to an older wiry gentleman with a buzz cut and a leather jacket. Right before we pulled even with him, he turned slightly to the right and started addressing the flock of starlings [...]
I wholeheartedly agree
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
“It is the mark of the religious mind that it cares more about private than public morality. As the bumper sticker slogan put it, ‘When Clinton lied, nobody died.’ Officially, Bill Clinton was impeached not for sexual misconduct but for lying about it. But he was entitled to lie about his private life: one could [...]
Seduction and indifference
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
“There is a tendency in philosophy to separate the mind, the intellectual operations, from the passions, the emotions. This tendency moves into psychology, and thence into neuroscience. The neuroscience of music, in particular, has concentrated almost exclusively on the neural mechanisms by which we perceive pitch, tonal intervals, melody, rhythm, and so on, and, until [...]
Let us all gather round and share our pimento (pimiento) cheese recipes!
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
I’ll start. Here’s mine, which is really RJ’s, which she really got from a magazine (with modest notations from yours truly): 4oz cheddar, grated (sharpness dependent on your mood) 1 small jar pimento (pimiento) 1-2 Tbs. of finely chopped green onions (again, up to your mood) 1/4 tsp. Old Bay Seasoning (or cayenne pepper if [...]