Up With Grups – The Ascendant Breed of Grown-Ups Who Are Redefining Adulthood — New York Magazine This article discusses a Gen X phenomenon I’ve talked about with friends, but never seen so accurately described before this. Pretty freaking stunning. UPDATE: Credit for finding this article goes to Mike, finder of many good things. Let’s [...]
Went to see Spike Lee’s surprisingly Hollywoody latest movie, Inside Man. Fun, engaging, plays a little with the conventions of bank heist movies, and with enough little Spike Lee touches to make us laugh. Also, I’ve stuck the bhangra tune which played during the opening and closing credits on repeat for most of the day. [...]
My cold. Knocked me on my ass for a solid 4-day weekend, and then dwindled asymptotically towards zero, never quite reaching it. I’m still a little hoarse late at night, even now, a month later. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. Glen loaned me his copy, and I zipped through it over the course of a [...]
American Beliefs: Evolution vs. Bible’s Explanation of Human Origins Education, church attendance, partisanship related to beliefs I’ve been suffering with a nasty cold for nearly a week now. Seeing Gallup results like these doesn’t help my outlook a whole bunch. About half of Americans reject an evolutionary explanation for the origin of humans and believe [...]
I haven’t taken a sick day at work in probably two years, but around 5 p.m. yesterday, it began to seem inevitable. I’ve been a little droopy all week, but at 5 my voice suddenly started cracking and squeaking, and my attempts at a nap were interrupted by coughing and sniffing. Slept poorly last night, [...]