G as in Good H as in Happy

Happy Endings, Sorta, Contd.

May 25, 2006

Romania returns Dracula's castle to owner. No, not Vlad the sharp-thingy-abuser.

Via Vodkapundit

Families and Focus

May 10, 2006

How does one account for a group of people who came from the Third World to the First World with nothing but a suitcase, within three generations, overtook around 99.5 percent of the natives in terms of wealth?

Families and focus. Don't bother with regrets. Courage to sacrifice in the short term.

Asian Subcontinent Indians in the UK: 

• Up to £14.8 billion

His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular (and also, curiously, King of Scotland):

• Zero and headed down

Via Instapundit

Research and Other Information Behaviors

May 5, 2006

Twenty-five information dysfunctions, and some repair methods, footnoted by Information, Younger Generation and. Extremely informative.

American Kids Aren't So Bad

May 4, 2006

A little perspective from Romania...

A Paper Clip that Keeps Out the Rain

April 19, 2006

Dust My Broom breaks the news that the blogger who wanted to trade one red paper clip for a house has succeeded. Nine months, and only ten trades.

When in Doubt...

...do something weird. Or if you're already weird, marry someone who won't notice [a policy that worked at Chez Dilys!]

Is Default Order the new Entropy?

if you try to add order to a system it breaks down, but if you add disorder it can make the system spontaneously create order. Nobody understands this, not even the discoverers.

Via YARGB

Which also features a why-didn't-I-think-of-that? sketch of a black hole, and a very fine interrogation of the problem of procrastination.

John Kerry's Care and Tending

March 27, 2006

I find nothing here that anyone should make fun of. Who doesn't want the B&B's "cozy room;" and on-demand entertainment geared up and ready to go even before you arrive.

Sincerely.  The guy knows how to take care of himself. Who wants to make and re-make all those decisions? In fact, making a list of preferences for employees, with copies to family and friends, seems a very good idea, if they would read them.

A fifth page in that vein however might just tiptoe a teensy toe over the line into spoiled metrosexual. Not that there's anything wrong for a private citizen to focus on that, either. It's still a free country.

Via Betsy's Page

Character

Sometimes in the public sphere we can watch a person come into his own. Moral and professional. Never finally give up on anyone.

Flailing

On a pragmatic gross-governance level, it's a republic, and that's a good thing. Democratic representation does not run everywhere, though.

As One Cosmos' Bob Godwin (Darwin? God?) says

True philosophy (not academic philosophy, which is just an adolescent parlor game) depends on two variables: the depth of one's intelligence, and the source and value of one's information.

There may be situations where it's good first to measure one's prowess and perhaps elect to be a bystander.

Yep.

Courtesy Patterico

Spring Zen-Tonic for Writers

Commissioned cover for writing seminar. Draft.