January 2010
19 posts
“Ineffable Creator, pour forth a ray of Your brightness into the darkened places...”
– St. Thomas Aquinas
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iPad: First reaction and future musing
My good friend sent me a link from Gizmodo about the 8 thinks that suck about the iPad. He is not a fanboy. Well, he is a fanboy, but of “anything not a Mac.” That’s ok. Replying allowing me to contextualize a few thoughts on what is really significant. I broach it toward the end of this post but will revisit it later this week with a more digested musing.
Critique and Defense
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The real tech announcement from last night →
Apple has it’s own processor, and apparently, it’s wicked fast.
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Introduction to the project
The following is the introduction to my thesis. Changes will be made, no doubt, but here it is in all it’s inglorious light.
Social strife is an essential feature of political life. Every day new fault lines emerge as the pinnacle issue, where the nefarious actions of one faction in society is claimed to have usurped the rights and privileges of others. At times, government...
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Announcement: writing in public
I decided that I will soon post a public link to my working draft for my Master’s thesis free for download. What I’m not sure about yet is whether it will be a link to the actual word document, or if I’ll convert the draft to PDF every few days and link to that. There are benefits to each, namely ease for the word document and control over formating and prevention of plagiarism...
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Komodo Food: best in L.A.? Possibly.
I happened on Komodo yesterday, another of the many twittering food trucks taking Los Angeles by storm. Unlike the others, after eating at Komodo, I felt compelled to write about. After witnessing the success of KogiBBQ, the first, and original trend setter in this new food genre, a series of trucks began multiplying exponentially around the southland—and not always to the same effect. To say...
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Mass. Round-up
I’m too preoccupied with daily thesising to offer my own commentary, as deadlines are looming. But the following articles I found interesting enough to share.
From the Right
Steven Hayward advises the GOP not to gloat
So does Mindy Finn, who cautions against GOP arrogance
Pejman Yousefzadeh explains the model for winning: issues, not ideaology
From the Left
David Waldman at The...
Typography tells a story. →
I just watched the documentary Helvetica yesterday. The take away from the film is precisely this point. That the type font we chose for our blogs, papers, flyers, business communications—All communication!—sends visual and cues to the reader before a word is even read.
John Stewart, Scott Brown, and Holding-Off on Long...
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John Stewart at his best. It’s good to see him not pulling punches against Democrats as he was shortly after Obama took office earlier in the year.
But there is a deep issue here today that is greater than just the election in...
David Brooks on Obama as Pragmatic Leviathan →
Quite frankly, I don’t know if Brooks actually basis his articles on empirical observation, or writes his essays weeks or months in advance to be distributed later, but whatever he is doing, I am not watching the same presidency as he is. The president has managed to craft himself as a clever pragmatist who’s approval remains despite his authoritarian policies. But any careful read...
MLK & The Great Tradition
Richard John Neuhaus remembers MLK
Reactions to Campbell's California Senate... →
Leaving a crowded and well funded gubanatorial field, Tom Campbell announced a change in the office he is seeking. From RCP earlier:
Former congressman Tom Campbell decided to run for Senate this week after dropping his bid for governor. There are a few Republicans awaiting him in the primary race, including Carly Fiorina — the establishment-backed candidate — and Chuck DeVore, the...
Conservative Felonies & Liberal Misdemeanors →
VDH uses the Harry Reid “erratum” to offer a poignant assessment of how liberals and conservatives are treated when they make mistakes. Not seeking to defend republicans, but rather, focus on how media behave differently based on our conditioned assumptions about moral superiority of one group over the other.
Kiffin Never Embraced Tenn. →
It is more important to realize that a quality team, is worth more than a star player. But we can take this lesson to a more immediate and personal level by applying it to our daily lives. The people we call friends, our current jobs, even the places we chose to get our morning coffee from all reflect choices that we make. Being more cognizant about our choices is not an easy habit to form, but...
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Write Through
After a (perhaps too) long holiday break from the reading and writing I spent most of last week in a series of failed attempts to return my thesis. My brain refuses to think and retain academic knowledge and each time I sit in front of a book or blank word document I am faced with a severe case of creative block. Thus, in order to plow write though (pun intended), I want to spend this week writing...
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Tigers, Journalists, and Senatorial transgressions
… or “Tolerance for me, but not for you.”
I missed a lot of political news this week and last as I feebly attempted to catch up on emails, and other projects after a longer than planned new year’s break. But two stories jump out at me that seem somewhat related if only tangentially. Brit Hume, a semi-retired journalist from the Foxnews channel made a public appeal to Tiger Woods...
What are you doing today? →
gary:
What is planned for u today?
I’m watching some college footbal. Roll Tide! Yea, for those reading this, a Big Ten alumnus is for an SEC team. Whatever.
Irony: seeing a staff member at the Reagan Library with an Obama ‘08 bumper sticker on her car.