February 2011
23 posts
“We shall evaluate the relative importance of these factors by comparing Dundee’s...”
– From an essay I’m writing about Jacobitism.
Guys, I kind of love purple prose.
January 2011
16 posts
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Party in the C-USA: 5 Reasons to Watch C-USA... →
By John Lepine
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I don’t know if I’m going to do 52 in 52 again, but I’m sure on track for it if I want to! Other options:
4 in 4 (4 books of more than a thousand pages in 4 seasons)
12 in 12 (12 books of some particular quality or length in 12 months)
6 in 6 (6 books of more than, say, 700 pages in the 6 ecological seasons of temperate climates)
13 in 13 (13 books of some kind in 13 Zodiac...
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“I also read the Bible for the first time. It was deep! I liked the parts where...”
– Lil Wayne (via wesleyhill)
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In what sense is economics a science?
In the last edition of my irregular blog series on economics, we examined the question, “What is economics?” CrazyNutJob offered the following definition: the science of decision-making under the constraints of scarcity. This will do nicely. But what do we mean by “science”?
In other sciences, like physics, biology, and chemistry, research is performed in the scientific...
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In the inaugural lecture of the Education course “Working with People and Groups,” which is pretty much a class on how to do group projects mixed with some babble about history and ideology and whatnot, we got a handout describing the four different leadership styles—North, South, East, and West. It’s kind of like the Lion/Golden Retriever/Beaver/Otter schematic. Anyway,...
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Studying Abroad
I already miss:
Amy, Jack, Rosie
Katie, Elliott, puppy (Desmond?)
I’m going to miss:
The parents and the brothers
Barrett
The Natural State
RUF, RCC, RPC
All the living space I’m used to in Tulsa and Little Rock
MY GUITAR (new song up on MySpace!)
MY DJIMBE
All my other percussion instruments
Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride
Eating a Mama Lepine meal
Drying the dishes...
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52 in 52
50. Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi (finished 29 Dec) 51. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (finished 31 Dec) 52. Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg (recited to me by Sarah Neff shortly before midnight on 31 Dec. Does this count? Probably not. But I could just as well retcon my list to include Simone Weil’s The Iliad, or the Poem of Force which I...