with love from _______
Today I went through some of my old writings. A few pieces seemed so quaint, and I couldn’t seem to continue writing with the same heart or spirit. Do our writings grow up over the years, too?
if i were part of your pomegranate
Ok, I’ll admit it, I’ve been MMOing. Classes have been a joke so I haven’t really put much thought into them. Tuesday and Thursday have consistently been days for eating lunch and sleeping in class. If I were more diligent, do you think the sun would come out for me?
starboard
It just occurred to me (after a nice round of coffee, of course), that perhaps I should be starting to study for the GREs. I don’t mind studying so much nowadays, especially when I overhear such strange sounds on Vent. I still can’t help but think that some of these people have voice transformers.
Classes are [...]
roach
http://bit.ly/cpQAtH -> Deaths in Greek strike - people dying over this? That is ridiculous.
http://nyti.ms/ch68f3 -> Graphical debt woes, this is awfully neat.
some sentences that should not be strung together so obviously
“George [Papandreou] might have got the money, he might have staved off bankruptcy, but he has to extract £26bn worth of cuts in three years. His battles will now be fought out on the streets. The IMF negotiator casually mentioned yesterday that “the need for deeper cuts could not be ruled out”. ”
“Greek public sector [...]
Ideas Bank (1)
None of the following thoughts are complete yet; in fact, some of them may be direct quotations. I’m putting these down here for my convenience and ease of edit, since I doubt anything will be worth plagiarizing:
Bank runs – banks runs were ended by deposit insurance, yet the main cause of the most recent economic [...]
antony flew, ex-atheist
Of course, I respect folks of different beliefs in the same way that I respect folks who like mint in their chocolates - as long as as the reason isn’t too implausible and difficult to accept.
It is somewhat difficult, however, to envisage that Antony Flew would suddenly turn believer from atheist (I don’t think he [...]
best response function
It simply takes too long to think up something interesting to write about in my own blog, and offers far less enjoyable potential than just reading other blogs - since few comments are useful here.
I think that twentieth century economic history, despite its lack of requirements other than memorizing history, and game theory, despite the [...]
take me to your heart
Her daily poems are beautiful. Sometimes the lines about dandelions, in an unfitting fashion, remind me that I never finished that one book by Hardy.
efilings
This is one of those odd questions: my right middle finger has been all but flattened at the tip due to excessive writing (clearly with the wrong posture), so if I stop writing and type everything from now on - will my finger and nail regain their original shapes?