It is now over four months since my operation and I am still in a wheelchair as I am still unable to walk (more specifically I am still unable to lift my right foot because my right knee will not bend when I am standing upright). Strangely, I can bend my right knee when I am sit...
When Warren Buffet wanted to make a philanthropist out of Gates, his first move was to give him a copy of an essay by Andrew Carnegie (the greatest of all the 19th century industrialist/philanthropists), called ‘The Gospel Of Wealth’. Incidentally, we see here (and also with the case o...
> I’ll hunt > him in my own way." TOM: If she destroys the universe she really doesn’t need to take care of Crotswurth, does she? > With that, she walked off into the woods behind > BoB. JOEL: Hey, that’s not the woods, that’s just a — ALL: BONK! JOEL: Matte...
In olden times, people offered bags of rice as taxes to the provincial governments. The officials of the Yamato government requested many times that Kiyokado pay the taxes, but he would not pay them. One day Governor Sukegimi and his men got together to study the best way to make the ...
For 1,500 years, the Church has preached that attending Mass is an obligation – if not fulfilled, then that basket you’re in makes it all the way to the River Styx. Now, public Mass is not available – not even private Mass in a person’s home. Once again (not the first time,...
Along the way, though, we’ve tacitly agreed to settle; we’ve come to, in Lanier’s words, an “apocalypse of abdication,” a classic sort of alienation where we divorce the best, most human parts of ourselves from ourselves—creativity, personality, intelligence—and cede them to our ...
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes...
in various situations like when during the first week I lived in my house in Piermont, I locked myself out of my bedroom and they had a clever way of unlocking it, and when I was brought home by my daughter after my ankle surgery, they carried me down the 20 steps to my house.) ...
“Name me one thing Jobs invented” is a good way to bring this up. Or, “show me one video of Steve using the terminal or coding something for a computer.” When they realize he’s a degenerate nothing, yet hailed as the (former) kingpin of the most profitable computer company on ...
Although it would be an exaggeration to suggest that magazines have ever been the single arbiter of taste, they did have a way of pushing nations’ consciousnesses in certain directions through their hold over popularity and therefore the availability and marketability of items. Over the generations...