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Passion and purpose 2.0

After opining recently on passion, I admit there is equal truth in the Dilbert strip in today’s paper. I need only change the last two words to “read books”:

An optimist is simply a pessimist with no job experience.

“Dogbert” in Scott Adams, Build A Better Life By Stealing Office Supplies

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Reading the world

For someone who can count on one hand the number of times he’s been out of the U.S. (even taking the San Diego trolley to Tijuana), I am fascinated by other countries. I decided to indulge myself last weekend with two books I just heard about. I’m certainly glad I did.

The first was The […]

Accumulated marginalia

Some admittedly date back to last week but they are among the things that have caught my interest over the last 10 days or so:

I’ve used the Google translate feature on a couple occasions but never thought about the flip side. Hence, I found this is very cool, although I have no idea how […]

PP! I never knew!!!

Shocked, just shocked! Appalled, absolutely appalled!

Somewhat behind on my web reading, I have just learned that my GOP friend PP of the South Dakota War College is part of a cabal planning to take over the world. After all, good and certainly unquestionable authority says PP is — gasp — a “Zionist operative.”

Now […]

Doing the LibraryThing

As I spent the last several days hibernating trying to shake a cold that’s plagued me for going on two weeks, I also got around to compiling most of my LibraryThing library. Although the effort was sped up a bit by CueCat, I still have to wonder about the time put in to the project.

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