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What I learned from The Power Broker
The Power Broker is Robert Caro's Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Robert Moses (12/18/1888 - 7/29/1981). Between 1920 and 1960, without ever being elected, Robert Moses became the most powerful man in New York. This book tells the story of who he was and how he did it.
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Tell me about Power
I've listened to NPR for many years. Likewise I watch the good news shows. I read the newspapers and the websites and generally keep "current." And so, for a long time, I've felt I had a pretty good handle on "how the real world works" as it were. Back in July I began reading The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro. Nothing I've seen ( Read more... ) -
Charlie the Clever
Something about the Charlie the Unicorn story reminds me of Jack Vance's The Eyes of the Overworld
Charlie the Unicorn Flash
Charlie the Unicorn MOV
Although Charlie is a much more sympathetic character than Cugel the Clever.
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Disconnected
I'm still disconnected from the interweb---at least at home. I'm considering reconnecting in a few weeks. Here is what I've been doing without the internet ( Read more... ) -
mazing and relazing
After a whirlwind tour of friends and family in Michigan and whirlwind week of work right afterwords this weekend feels ... well earned.
We had a blast though. Many thanks to everyone. We have to do this again, and next time we'll have to try to see a few of you we couldn't visit with last time. -
At the Mitten
We're here. -
To the Mitten
W+K Michigan tour 2007!
June 30 - July 8
Grand Rapids, Lansing, Kalamazoo, Alma! -
Gallows Face
They pulled me from the water when I was young
They said, "Don't you worry 'bout drowning none"
"You've got a gallows face."
Gallows face, gallows face,
Of my trail I better leave no trace,
All the king's men can give me chase,
But I'm not afraid of sword or gun,
I'll be alive as long as I can run,
Only John Q. Law can put me in my place,
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April Fool
I have to post about this.
Yesterday I was doing taxes and I got down to the end comparing tax verses taxes paid and there was a rather large discrepancy. I did the math and it came out that we owed the federal government $2836. My heart began racing. I breathlessly reviewed the numbers, but they came out the same. $2836 is a little more than the ( Read more... )