June 30th, 2014 → 6:35 am
Facebook is getting a lot of flack for manipulating users feeds to see if they could tweak their emotions (and apparently they can). I am always ambivalent about such news stories; I would hate being manipulated by an insensitive, bigger “power,” but I am an academic and at the same time understand the value of such studies. This one seems pretty minor, but, I have to admit, I really never have been much of a fan of Facebook.
Filed under: Blog & Stupid/Evil People
June 28th, 2014 → 7:05 am
100 years ago today Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated, and the world slid into its first World War. It is humbling to look back on it now; the horror, the uninevitability of it, the profound waste. There is a world that existed before June 28, 1914, and a rather diferent world that was borne after it.
Filed under: Blog & Economics/Money & Literature/Theatre/Art & Other & Politics/Politicians & Stupid/Evil People
June 26th, 2014 → 5:47 am
Or bites? Who is this guy who keeps biting people on the soccer field? What an absolute weirdo.
Filed under: Blog & Stupid/Evil People
June 24th, 2014 → 5:12 am
“[They] hath been most notoriously abused.” – Twelfth Night
The lengthy prison sentences given to a number of journalists in Egypt, and the sham trial that went with it, are shocking. I pray for the Middle East.
Filed under: Blog & Politics/Politicians
June 21st, 2014 → 7:45 pm
I don’t know how it happened. I honestly can’t believe it did happen. This morning I woke up completely unaware that anything like this could happen. We adopted a second cat today. After a morning spent picking raspberry’s at Lakeview Farms, I took my son with me to the vet for our current cat’s checkup. There were cats to be adopted there, and lo and behold, my son immediately became enamored of a cat named Stanley. Wouldn’t let it go. We came home and he convinced my husband – who had previously vowed NEVER to get another cat – that he and Stanley had to be together. Now, we have a new cat in the house! Welcome to the family, Stanley.
Filed under: Blog & Self/My Life
June 19th, 2014 → 5:51 am
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” – Hamlet
I spoke to an old friend for the first time in 10 years yesterday. Once, we were really quite close; now, it’s like we speak different languages. Strange how at one time we can think we really know ourselves and others, when in truth we have no conception how things (and people) can change.
Filed under: Blog & Self/My Life
June 17th, 2014 → 7:46 am
If Shakespeare were to describe an X-Men super villain.
June 15th, 2014 → 6:57 am
“Cry ‘Havoc,’ and let slip the dogs of war.” – Julius Caesar
Crazy, bloodthirsty, vengeful fools.
Filed under: Blog & Stupid/Evil People
June 12th, 2014 → 6:40 am
Cantor couldn’t control the unruly Tea Party and now he’s thrown down; thrown down in the base court of Congress.
Filed under: Blog & Politics/Politicians & Stupid/Evil People
June 10th, 2014 → 6:21 am
Inequality is not good for the rich, or the poor.