I just remembered a concert I went to some years ago. It was Opeth at the Fox Theater in Boulder and I don't remember exactly what year it was. Opeth is what you might call progressive death metal from Sweden. In Opeth's case, its death metal blended with 70's prog and jazz. Anyways, right before the show starts, I turn around and right behind me is a 70-something year old man and his wife, both looking very excited to be there.
You might think that they'd be old hippies or perhaps adhere t
I recently finished reading this book, and I have to say that at first I was almost disappointed with the ending and that something really bothered me about it. In fact, I kept thinking about it for a couple of days and realized that when the method of narration and the nature of the main character is taken into consideration, the story becomes something that is opposite of what the words in the book describe. This is the first time I've noticed that the physical method of delivery of a book can
China Defends Internet Controls
How transparent is this guy? I'm amazed that the people who witnessed this briefing did not laugh in his face at the contradictory stupidity that he spewed forth. While I agree that the U.S. government is over-stepping its power wrongly in some cases for the sake of its citizen's protection, you cannot correlate the freedom of private enterprises to censor their own productive work to the act of forcing them against their will to censor certain topics.
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard23.html
I find this interesting because I love the writing of Ayn Rand and Nathaniel Branden. Ultimate irony on several levels.
Geez, I seem to be turning into a subversive propaganda syndication. Weee! No really, I found this fascinating. Ever wonder what politicans talk about when they think the camera isn't rolling?
http://www.brasscheck.com/videos/spin.html
http://www.banksy.co.uk/
I just looked through the whole site at one sitting, and thought that some people here might enjoy some of it. Actually, the thing that I found most interesting wasn't any of the imagery, but one of the email responses:
Spoken like a 'true believer.' I might even be able to cut the irony with a knife.
Where to start? I haven't been terribly active here lately, though I do check in roughly once a day. Interest in specifically Roman things has waned a bit an I find that I have less to contribute than normal, if that is possible I'm inescapably trapped in fervent book reading for the moment, to the point that any moment when I cannot read (any time that I'm driving) I'm engrossed in podcasts of academic lectures.
I've put a link to some of these in the block to the right. I'm currently lis
Vangelis is the first electronic music that I ever remember hearing. Needless to say, its made a huge impact on my musical tastes. Strap on your full size headphones and enjoy!
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php?semesterid=27
There's some interesting courses that I haven't seen in the previous semesters:
Shakespeare
Modern Physics: From the Atom to Big Science
The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the Present
Introduction to Design of Human Work Systems and Organizations
Information Law and Policy
Existentialism in Literature and Film
American Politics:Campaign Strategy - Media
Developmental Psychopathology
Introduction to Practical Reasoning and Cr
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php?semesterid=2009-B
There's a few new courses in there, weee
Oxford http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ has podcast from Bryan Ward-Perkins on the Fall of the Roman Empire:
http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/oxitems/generater...estination=poau
Stanford http://itunes.stanford.edu/rss.html has lectures on Hannibal, Virgil's Aeneid, and Historical Jesus:
http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.w...372.01374259374
http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.w...057.01
http://www.chimay.com/en/chimay_blue_220.php
This is pricey, but it's worth buying every once in a while. It's a Trappist ale, which in my experience are usually near perfect beers.
Its sweet and malty with a little bit of spicy hops. Nice deep cloudy red color. Very mellow aroma, like bread. Its hard to tell that its 9% alcohol because its VERY smooth. I find that it tastes best when its cool/lukewarm. It has a certain typical 'Belgian' flavor that may be due to the yeast, but I'm not s
The upgrade wasn't as smooth as I thought. Apparently, in the old forum version, the post formatting was saved with each post in the database and it does not get updated along with the upgrade. So... I spent a few hours writing and testing a script to go through each post and replace certain pieces of code and HOPEFULLY everything is solved.
Anyone interested in getting the script for their own upgrade can just PM me.
Like many people, I found the first few books in the Camulod Chronicles to be exceptional but I lost a little bit of interest in the latter books of the series. Not that any of the books were less than great, they were worth every penny in my opinion. It's just that the first books were so remotely distant from anything 'Arthurian' and so intimate with the lives of the Romans that the story was centered on.
Although the stories in subsequent volumes are intriguing and well written, it seems
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...us/tax_tussle_2I find it frightening that the most obvious solution for lack of efficacy from my state government is to just use more money. Maybe if I don't budget my income and use it wisely, my boss will just give me all his additional revenue for a few months. I'm pretty sure that would teach me how to use money wisely.
I recently read an article by Nathaniel Branden that nicely articulated a mass of something that has been in my mind, of which I could only grab bits and pieces when I attempted to understand it as a whole.
http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/ar...untability.html
Here's another little excerpt gleaned from the Underground History of American Education, recounting the influence, in China, of the same prominent ideologues that influenced much of our educational system.
From 'Education and the Philosophy of Experimentalism', John Childs - 1931
