The Fun is in the Digressions
My temperature is slowly returning to normal. Thanks for all the well wishes. I had intended earlier in the week …
Monthly Archives: February 2007
No Anonymous Death
I’m not human enough to actually write the coherent post I had such high hopes for earlier today. But let …
Returning to Life
If the current radical evolutionary trend continues, I may become human sometime today. If that astonishing feat is achieved, I …
Emerson, a Slave of Golconda
I was reading Emerson: The Mind on Fire and came across this passage: Coleridge notes that there are four kinds …
Mind Your P’s and Q’s
This week’s Emerson essay is about Behavior, also known as manners. Manners are “the visible carriage or action of the …
Locke’s Indexing Method
Being the shameless INTJ that I am I have been itching to read Locke’s A New Method of a Common-Place-Book …
Books About Books
I’m starting to feel like a broken record because I am going to mention, once again, Every Book Its Reader …
Of Marginalia and E-Books
Continuing on in my reading of Every Book Its Reader last night, Basbanes talks to Heather Jackson, or H.J. Jackson …
BC–Before Computers
I am old enough to remember life without computers. Old enough to remember life without cassette tapes, CDs, DVDs, and …
The Shield of Herakles
Laptops are really nice at keeping a person warm in winter and today I need it. This morning it was …
