G as in Good H as in Happy

GoNE 2 CAliForny

September 30, 2005

Readers have noticed that postings recently are scarce. Someday there might be more. Not today.

Chez Dilys still shelters us in pleasant surroundings, we soldier happily on, offstage for awhile. If there is gold in them thar hills, we'll tote a nugget or two back home in a bucket engraved with the G&H monogram.

Aaaaahhh... A respite from the sound of one's own voice has certain rewards.

Education Is Really Make An Deference Fro Me

September 29, 2005

The Mamacita sensibility is a breath of fresh air, her reports from the  front lines of school  and life(-stages).

Argument Mapping

September 28, 2005

Improving our grasp of complex arguments. Mind mapping for the left brain.

There is no reason for an argument to be deemed believable unless it hangs together in this manner, in a suitable medium (resources).

Boneless chickens can't cross the road.

Via limbic nutrition

A Game of Change

September 24, 2005

You can't do just one thing.

The Hazard of "a constitutional inability to adopt a reasonable way to tell the good stuff from the bad stuff"

September 21, 2005

There is, in the wake of the wake of Katrina, a lot of practical talk...

Boy Scouts Get It: "Be Prepared"

Glenn Reynolds rightly points out that disaster preparedness is a mindset, and more technical than merely stockpiling food and water. Here's an overview from the LA Fire Department, focused on earthquakes but a useful overview in general.  How good to come through a crisis with self-respect, not making matters worse nor being an undue burden on our neighbors.

Something for Everyone

There is enough light for those who desire only to see, and enough darkness for those of a contrary disposition.

-- Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 149/430

A Beautiful and Just Built Environment

September 20, 2005

Notre Dame urbanists' deep passion meets the world's deep need.

Art Collective in Desperate Need of Getting a Life, Maybe Volunteer in an Orphanage

Huge pink knitted bunny as Italian mountain will probably be plenty soggy in twenty years.

Via The Corner

A Phrase is Born

Lt. Gen. Russel Honore uses the phrase appropriately, for clarity, under provocation. His job is to get clear and current information in place, and after uncooperative efforts to wrest the agenda from him, he lays it on the line.

While it is still pristine, we're enjoying the pure impersonal accuracy of the expression.