Archive for the ‘gratitude’ Category
Monday, August 29th, 2005
The best bumper sticker I've seen in a while. It was on a car parked on the same street as this blue pick-up that has the most annoying, whiney, and undeservedly self-rightous bumper sticker I've ever seen: "I want my democracy now!" I don't know which is worse, the "my" ...
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Saturday, July 30th, 2005
Jeffry Perren wrote this fine article about Jack Kilby, the inventor of the integrated circuit. Had Kilby not accomplished what he did, would someone else have? According to the Wikipedia (another fine creation) article linked above, an article about the IC was puiblished a few years before Kilby built the ...
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2005
Last week I discovered Princeton University's video archive of its Louis Clark Vanuxem Lectures. Some great scholars here, including Jared Diamond, Matt Ridley, Randy Barnett, and Steven Pinker. And hey, Maurice Sendak.
Yesterday I listened to a chapter in Thomas J. Stanley's The Millionaire Mind, where Stanley surveyed hundreds of ...
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Sunday, June 19th, 2005
I saw him speak last week at the Boulder Bookstore. I didn't know he was known more for his humor than for his fiction writing. I enjoy hearing him much more than reading him, as so much of humor is in the delivery and tonality. He read a story recently ...
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2005
My friend Friso told me about a book called Best Recipes, published by the authors of Cooks Illustrated magazine. For each recipe, the authors relate several different methods of preparing it, with the goal of finding the best way. They include several variables: type of utensils, cooking temperature, time, types ...
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Monday, May 30th, 2005
That is, pants and bags. Great products. Apparently the Eagle Creek "Convertabrief" is discontinued. How sad! But Sierra Trading Post has them for a good price. Now on to more substantive posts.
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Sunday, May 22nd, 2005
Some good news for today, as reported by the Free State Project and the Atlasphere.
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2005
It's about time I acknoweledged Wikipedia as one of the best sites around. Here's a good article on it, as posted on Geekpress.
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2005
I was at a friend Ben's house to watch the Super Bowl. Eagles almost pulled it out. What's the percentage of successful on-side kicks, anyway? I read something about that recently. Paul McCartney sure has the head bob thing going when he performs. There's something a ...
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005
To observe the 100th Anniversary of Ayn Rand's birth, Alex and I attended a lecture by John Stossel at the University of Denver. Stossel is a hero of mine that I have now met. And he signed a poster I helped design for a Campus Libertarians event a ...
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