Dailies

“Oh,” says the UPS guy, having rung the new doorbell for our apartment and actually gotten a response. “You exist. I thought you were a tax write-off.”

Act 3, Scene 4
MACBETH: Blood hath been shed ere now, i’ the olden time,
Ere human statute purged the gentle weal;
Ay, and since too, murders have been perform’d
Too terrible for the ear: the times have been,
That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
And there an end; but now they rise again,
With twenty mortal murders [...]

It’s Monday morning, Martin Luther King Day. Our internet access is out, so I’m sitting and drinking my usual cup of morning tea and checking my email on my iPhone, and thinking about the week that’s about to begin.
I’m looking around the house for hurricane lanterns as the other side of [...]

NPR : How to Get a Good Night’s Sleep
NPR did a couple of interesting stories about sleep habits, including one mentioning an experiment in which people were put in a room with a 14-hour period of darkness every day, mimicking winter months without electric lights. People settled fairly quickly into sleeping in two four-hour [...]

Dont send in the clowns | Oddly Enough | Reuters
Friend Meg found this article on a survey done about clowns, the results of which shouldn’t be surprising.

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“We found that clowns are universally disliked by children. Some found them quite frightening and unknowable.”
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