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I'm going to try something new.  Starting this Sunday, I'm going to post 10 items I've come across on the intarweb in the previous week that I think are worth sharing.  Here goes!

1. Misc - Sudhir Vankatesh: Gang Leader for a Day
A lecture given by a Sociology professor about his new book, which is about him infiltrating and following around a ( Read more... )

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Comment and I'll give you a letter; then you have to list 10 things you love that begin with that letter. Afterward, post this in your journal and give out some letters of your own.

I have the letter L

1. Language
2. Lore
3. Love
4. Life
5. Literature
6. Lipids
7. Le Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain
8. Livin'
9. Light rains
10. Late night movies

Half-way through page 86 of Ludwid von Mises' Theory and History (I've recently developed an interest in Austrian Economics, as random as that is), I was struck with the urge to write something. Here I am to satiate that urge.  My "literary life" has been in nothing less than a coma lately.  Whereas I was inking out quite a bit over the past ( Read more... )

"I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and the gait of the body; -- show me the ultimate ( Read more... )

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I had to share these two links.  Both are wondrously inspiring, but in disparate ways.

First: http://est1976.blogsome.com/2007/08/19/sara-and-i-just-got-engaged/

Second: http://

I found out that my course in tennis requires driving off of the peninsula to a Tennis Complex; thus, I had to drop the course due to a lack of transportation ( Read more... )