Recap of my trip to England and Scotland. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2009 I got on a plane at JFK to London. For the first time, I was served wine on the plane. At this point, I began to resent America’s drinking age. When we landed in the morning, I paced up and down the aisles [...]
Archive for January, 2010
15 Jan
glued
I don’t like being so addicted to things: my computer (which I have been wanting when I am on the train, in a nice café, when I think of things I want to look up, when I have down time); music (which I want to listen to on the train, or all the time, so much [...]
6 Jan
story people.
Stories. Short ones. Crafted by Brian Andreas onto pieces of recycled barn wood, creating tea trays and sculptures and treasure chests and mirrors and coat racks. There are also books and prints and greeting cards, but mostly, if you don’t have lots of money to buy all those things, they are stories. Here are three [...]
6 Jan
excerpts
from “In Praise of Idleness” by Bertrand Russel, 1932 Andy suggested I read this when we were talking about the importance of play. The first quotation below stuck out to me because it really does make our industrialised society seem a bit insane, and makes me dream of working only four-hour days and then having [...]
5 Jan
other people getting published
Once when I told my grandma’s friend that I want to write, she told me it was impractical, but if I must, I could do something functional like transcribing medical textbooks into online versions. Boy, does that sound fun. I’ve been reading Joey Comeau’s Overqualified website, which is a collection of real cover letters that [...]
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