New Year’s Day
Long ago I wrote that my formula for happiness was to make certain that each year was better than the last. I’ve certainly done my part to live by those words this last year and I hope that everyone else has as well or at least will in this coming year. Here’s to what 2006 [...]
Quote Of The Day
Belated, here’s the quote of the day from the dinner Mike, Manny, Matt and I (the only non-M-named person at the table) had at the Karma Kafe the other night. You can judge a book by its cover one hundred percent of the time.1 Matt Fox : December 28th, 2005↩
Why I Love Married With Children
Gee, Peg, when you act like this I just want to throw you on the floor and make love to you. Either that or just throw you on the floor.1 Married With Children : Season 2 : “Born To Walk”↩
Translations
[Before I begin I feel like I should note that I've been both too busy and too sick the past few days to write on this site, but I do have notes and nearly complete entries from the recently past days that I will edit soon and place online in the chronology. The following, being [...]
Quote Of The Day
I told ‘em: “if you go near those pumps smoking, I’ll kick you in the nads.” And they went near the pumps smoking. So you know what I did? I kicked ‘em in the nads.1 Mike Depinto’s favorite mechanic explaining his daily life to us yesterday after we got a flat tire in Hoboken. The [...]
Maturity
At a very early age we know better, but maturing is the gradual process of doing better.
Images Of Rome
Looking back at the pictures I took in Rome I can only think, “God, what a place!” The feeling of being there is perpetually one of being dwarfed — by the immensity of time, by the grandeur and by the sheer size of all that is around you. To walk along the Via Foro and [...]
Adding Photogalleries To The Site
The process of adding photos to this site is now underway. I’ve found that the open source photogallery management system Gallery 2 (go here for more information) does nearly all that I need and can be well integrated with WordPress. There’s theme hacking to be done yet to make everything look nice, but I’ve already [...]
Newfound Success And Constant Failure
Both newfound success and constant failure are dangerous to our development: success makes us forget how much further we have yet to go and failure makes us feel that our actions are inefficacious.
Freud’s Veneer Of Science
The veneer of science makes ugly much that should have been without fault: Freud’s writings might have been flawless if he had simply seen himself as a philosopher continuing on the tradition of disillusioned moralists who believed that man’s motives are always far more complex than the motives he attributes to himself. His place was [...]