Page 11 What shall I read for information? The ample page of knowledge, as Grey tells us, is "rich with the spoils of time," and these are ours for the price of a theatre ticket. You may command Socrates and Marcus Aurelius to sit beside you and discourse of their choicest, hear Lincoln at...
Page 12 CHAPTER XXI INFLUENCING BY NARRATION The art of narration is the art of writing in hooks and eyes. The principle consists in making the appropriate thought follow the appropriate thought, the proper fact the proper fact; in first preparing the mind for what is to come, and then letting it...
It is to the young that I wish to address myself today. Let the old - I mean of course the old in heart and mind - lay the pamphlet down therefore without tiring their eyes in reading what will tell them nothing. I assume that you are about eighteen or twenty years of age; that you have finished...
Some of the things people do to computers is downright painful. I used to be a technician on the U.S.S. Ranger, an aircraft carrier, just before the Gulf War. A new commanding officer had just come on board, and, in preparation for our excursion out to Iraq, he ordered that we go through all our...
In 1995, I decided that I would do some stuff on Pneumatic Cognition [Spiritual Cognition] at an Evangelical-Charismatic Church of England Conference - I only had two books on the stuff - The Bible and 'New Horizons in Hermeneutics: The Theory and Practice of Transforming Biblical Reading' by...
"1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" by ejones A Trip to the Moon (1902) The Great Train Robbery (1903) The Birth of a Nation (1915) Les Vampires (1915) Intolerance (1916) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) Broken Blossoms (1919) Way Down East (1920) Within Our Gates (1920) The Phantom Carriage...
A N I M A L F A C T S An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. (This applies to most of my friends, as well.) A whale's penis is called a dork. Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex. Reindeer like to eat bananas. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is...
Global Dimming NARRATOR (JACK FORTUNE): This is a film that demands action. It reveals that we may have grossly underestimated the speed at which our climate is changing. At its heart is a deadly new phenomenon. One that until very recently scientists refused to believe even existed. But it may...
{age 10 Gesture Should either be Simultaneous with or Precede the Words—not Follow Them Lady Macbeth says: "Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue." Reverse this order and you get comedy. Say, "There he goes," pointing at him after you have finished your words, and see if the result is...
1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die Published in 2005 by Cassell Illustrated. Selected & written by 90 leading international critics, general editor Robert Dimery. In chronological order 1955-2005. Year of release only given here, when considered absolutely necessary. Where there were...
The flow of light into the already dim tavern was interrupted, attracting the stares of the customers. A husky man limped through the doorway and his painless gait suggested a broken leg not properly set rather than a recent injury. Occupying a vacant table in the corner of the tavern, his dark eyes...
Ok, so technically I'm back in the United States now. I didn't post for a while because I was concentrating on trying to have the best possible time and squeeze as much experience into my last days there as possible. So, now I'm going to backtrack and try to get this all down on "paper" before I...
The other day I was thinking, "Man I sure have had a lot of jobs." So I began to make a list of all of them in my head. Here they are in order: Chuck's TV- my dad's business in Wisconsin, I would dust TV's, answer phones, help out etc. NetCom- The business that hired my dad in California- I had a...
Below are two excellent, well-researched articles by two Filipinos about Eskrima/Arnis that try to discard the heaps of bullcrap that many Filipino teachers in social studies, in local history, and even in said martial art, still propagate even up to this day and age: 1. That the ten Bornean datus...
I Certain events, I am afraid, have driven me to speak out against a certain, well, for lack of any better word, shaman of sorts who hath wounded me psychologically. Yes, my dear readers, I am under the fearsome Vodun curse brought from Darkest Africa on slave ships to the New World! Woe is me at...
001. When's the last time you ran? when i was in houston. my dad likes to sneak up behind me and smack me in the back of the head...so i snuck up behind him and smacked him in the head and i tore off. 002. Do your jeans have rips, tears, and holes in them? i have a pair with big tears under the ass...
Twelve Virtues of Rationality ©2006 by Eliezer Yudkowsky. The first virtue is curiosity. A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance. If in your heart...
March 16, 2007 - Friday Current mood: complacent I spent my life wanting validation from my Father, but have come to realize over the years, that my Dad will never like me, let alone, validate me as a human being. In fact, if I show I care about something, he'll go out of his way to decimate it &...
Cup # 1 Introduction I'm thinking of a number between one and twenty- it's a hypothetical number not yet known to me...but rather to be determined. I don't seem to recall what time it is, but I think it's about 8:30 p.m. on Friday the 25th of May, 2007. On this evening I'm sitting on the right wing...
[author's note: yes, I just saw that this is waaaay too long. but it's late and editing will have to wait for another time] For the past 4 years (since his wife left him for another man) Jesus, my next door neighbor, has been hitting on me. The FGNs thought I should go for it - cause they...
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