The Unenlightened Answer
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 Posted in thought | No Comments »A Wall Street Journal article derisively titled "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" has been making rounds of the blogosphere lately, with its premise that, based on a 2008 survey of economic knowledge, the left wing ...
Change
Friday, March 27th, 2009 Posted in economics, news, opinion, politics, thought | No Comments »Let's talk change, folks. When I say change, I don't mean the forces in our own lives - I mean the political buzzword that's been adopted by supposed progressives nowadays. How about some word association? Be honest: what was the first ...
Disaster Movies
Friday, January 2nd, 2009 Posted in canada, education, politics, quotes, science, thought | No Comments »As a captive to the vision of the director, you, the audience of a disaster movie, are presented with a character or set of characters with which to sympathize. Of course, they are likable, or at least have some redeeming ...
Anonymous: A Teaser
Saturday, March 15th, 2008 Posted in internet, news, religion, thought | 1 Comment »You may have heard about it recently in the news, depending on where you live. On February 10, 2008, the birthday of death-by-Scientology victim Lisa McPherson, the internet group "Anonymous" organized - without a notable leader or leaders - mass worldwide ...
I’m Looking at You, Digg
Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in gender, news, opinion, personal, politics, thought | 3 Comments »This isn't so much a post as it is a short rant. About - what else? - the 2008 presidential race. I understand that after the last eight years, we're all starving for change. Us Web 2.0 people probably feel that ...
Web 2.0 Compatible
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in internet, personal, thought | 2 Comments »I had a really interesting slip-up in my speech this afternoon. My friend and I were doing a crossword puzzle in our History class, as is our new routine (we only recently got into them, but we rock at ...
How to Pick the Best Foreign-Language Translation
Sunday, January 13th, 2008 Posted in Chinese, language, literature, quotes, thought | 8 Comments »As I mentioned in my earlier post Adventures in Russian Translation, I read a lot of foreign books. Nowadays, I estimate that I read more books that have been translated from foreign languages than originated in my own. ...
NaNoWriMo 2007: It’s Done!
Thursday, November 29th, 2007 Posted in thought | 1 Comment »So there. Hours and hours of work and frustration (mostly after midnight) on this semi-coherent... thing... have finally paid off! It means I can finally step out of Manic Mode and return to my normal, ...
Adventures in Russian Translation
Monday, November 19th, 2007 Posted in language, quotes, thought | 2 Comments »As you may have noticed, I've been on another hiatus lately... November has been an extremely busy month for me. I'm participating in the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) this month and it'll be zapping all my writing energy ...
Blog Action Day: Vegetarianism and the Environment
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 Posted in economics, environment, personal, politics, science, thought | 2 Comments »I was really disappointed when - on Blog Action Day of all days - real life once again disrupted my usual posting schedule. It has been a really crazy couple of days, so my entry is a depressing three days ...
