Here I am waiting idly for my damn PuIL take-home exam to pop up on WebCT. How deflating. I am drinking the most rancid, vile, brown liquid known to mankind — instant coffee. I think I must have scalded the cow juice or something, because it tastes awful. I miss my fresh Barista brew with [...]
Don Draper is mesmerising as he demonstrates the kind of sentimental bond you can develop with an inanimate object. “Nostalgia”, he calls it, “the pain from an old wound”.
“Nostalgia” is actually from the Greek meaning the pain from returning home, or the pain of memories.
This kind of scenario has happened to me dozens of times, [...]
This seems like a fairly mundane thing to write about, but the New York Times’ articles are finally readable without affecting your (my) sanity. I tend to have trouble focussing, so I highlight text as I read it. I also tend to click randomly and incessantly. Previously, on the NYT website, double-clicking (and thus highlighting) [...]
During one of my many high-minded (ha!) discussions with Tommy, an interesting view of the U.S. financial bailout emerged.
One of the follies leading to the credit crunch was the habit of taking otherwise bad debts, and repackaging them into supposedly AAA securities. The vast number of these securities floating around the financial markets, and the [...]
OK, so Sarah Palin is not the most delightful cookie, but this is just bad form:
