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French press how-to by 2007 world barista champion James...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:15:11 -0500

French press how-to by 2007 world barista champion James Hoffmann.

A Glimpse Into The Health Care System Of The 1930's

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:15:00 -0500

I could remember the difficulties we had then, trying to keep our doors open…. People brought chickens in and meat to pay their bills. They would paint or do work around the hospital of some kind…. Nurses would come in and beg us to give them a job without pay, for room and board, because they were starving.

- Odon Anderson, hospital executive and future Blue Cross executive.

How Did Economists Get It So Wrong - by Paul Krugman

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:58:00 -0400

How Did Economists Get It So Wrong - by Paul Krugman:

“Probably the most influential paper in this vein was a 1997 publication by Andrei Shleifer of Harvard and Robert Vishny of Chicago, which amounted to a formalization of the old line that “the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.” As they pointed out, arbitrageurs — the people who are supposed to buy low and sell high — need capital to do their jobs. And a severe plunge in asset prices, even if it makes no sense in terms of fundamentals, tends to deplete that capital. As a result, the smart money is forced out of the market, and prices may go into a downward spiral.”

Krugman refuting the Chicago school economists who assert that markets are perfectly rational.

C.P. Cavafy - Candles

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:29:21 -0400

heroin-e:

Days yet to come stretch out before us
like a row of candles, burning brightly ―
vivacious candles, golden and warm.

The days that have passed fall behind us,
burned-out candles in a dismal row:
those closest at hand still smoking;
cold candles, melted and deformed.

I don’t want to look; their state saddens me;
it saddens me to remember their initial glow.
I look ahead, instead, to my lighted candles.

I don’t want to turn back to see, with horror,
how quickly the dark row of candles has lengthened,
how rapidly the number of dead candles has grown.

must have C.P. Cavafy book. yes? yes!

The God Abandons Antony by Constantine P. Cavafy When suddenly, at midnight, you hearan invisible...

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:42:00 -0400

The God Abandons Antony

by Constantine P. Cavafy

When suddenly, at midnight, you hear
an invisible procession going by
with exquisite music, voices,
don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now,
work gone wrong, your plans
all proving deceptive—don’t mourn them uselessly.
As one long prepared, and graced with courage,
say goodbye to her, the Alexandria that is leaving.
Above all, don’t fool yourself, don’t say
it was a dream, your ears deceived you:
don’t degrade yourself with empty hopes like these.
As one long prepared, and graced with courage,
as is right for you who proved worthy of this kind of city,
go firmly to the window
and listen with deep emotion, but not
with the whining, the pleas of a coward;
listen—your final delectation—to the voices,
to the exquisite music of that strange procession,
and say goodbye to her, to the Alexandria you are losing.

Nature's Candy

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:59:19 -0400

fireland:

My daughter says, “We need to talk.” I sit down and fold my arms and sigh.

She says: “Dad, you know how we got a bunch of peaches yesterday?” I say yeah I guess so, it’s not like I monitor the comings and goings of all the groceries (not true). She whispers: “OK well I ate three peaches.”

I start to get up, assuming this will go the way most of her stories go, i.e., a half-hour plotless stream-of-consciousness Woolf-esque yawnfest. She sits me back down and says: “I mean three whole peaches. Every part.”

My eyes widen in horror. You ate three peach pits, didn’t you! She nods and here come the waterworks. “What’s going to happen to me, Daddy?” she cries.

I tear away from her sweaty little grip. I ask the question.

“Yes!” she shrieks. “Yes I did just drink some water!”

I can’t bear to look at her as I tell her it’s too late, she already watered the seeds. Even now the baby trees are unfurling their tiny leaves in her belly. An hour from now, two at the most, they will burst forth in the grossest, goriest way imaginable. But at least she can die knowing that she’ll be providing her family with fresh, delicious peaches for years to come—absolutely free of charge.

“There must be something we can do!” she wails.

“All we can do is wait,” I say, picking Entertainment Weekly back up and flipping through the pages, pausing for a moment to examine a photograph of Rashida Jones.

"You get enough power and you’re bound to start abusing it, I suppose."

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:07:00 -0400

““You get enough power and you’re bound to start abusing it, I suppose.””

- Frank Monaco, commenting about the judges in Pennsylvania who sent kids to jail for money. (Despite Red Flags, Judges Ran Kickback Scheme for Years - NYTimes.com) (via jeffmiller)

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The New York Times is only reporting half the story here. I want to know why the owners of the youth detention centers aren’t being charged with bribery. Could it be that one of the owners is Greg Zappala - the son of former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice Stephen Zappala Sr., and the brother of Allegheny County District Attorney Steven Zappala?

Sadly, it looks like the focus of this story will be the two corrupt judges - Ciavarella and Conahan - and not the absurdity of a corrupt system that allowes them to invest in incarceration and rewards those with political connections. Here are two articles if you want to investigate further:

http://tinyurl.com/ceby35 and http://tinyurl.com/d3s5ef

How To Compile An Illustration Of David Foster Wallace for the New Yorker

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:59:32 -0400

New Yorker Article

Is it just me or do you think supermodels look more beautiful in...

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:07:00 -0400

Is it just me or do you think supermodels look more beautiful in candid shots than skanky modeling poses?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnfish/

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:43:18 -0400

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Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:41:45 -0400

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Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:40:22 -0400

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Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:38:00 -0400

http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnfish/

beautifulordinaire: Missouri Pettway, 1902-1981. Blocks and...

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:03:12 -0500

beautifulordinaire:

Missouri Pettway, 1902-1981. Blocks and strips work-clothes quilt, 1942, cotton, corduroy, cotton sacking material, 90 x 69 inches. Missouri’s daughter Arlonzia describes the quilt: “It was when Daddy died. I was about seventeen, eighteen. He stayed sick about eight months and passed on. Mama say, ‘I going to take his work clothes, shape them into a quilt to remember him, and cover up under it for love.’ She take his old pants legs and shirttails, take all the clothes he had, just enough to make that quilt, and I helped her tore them up. Bottom of the pants is narrow, top is wide, and she had me to cutting the top part out and to shape them up in even strips.” (via supernice)

I love this:

I going to take his work clothes, shape them into a quilt to remember him, and cover up under it for love.

I don’t make very many things for myself but I have a few bags of baby clothes that I intend to quilt in order to hold onto the many joyful days that have come and gone. I hope to have more big and wonderful loves as the years come but I think, I’m almost positive, I would be content to be able to wrap myself in the ones I have had so far because just small flashes of them make my heart swell so big it feels like it could burst.

Hey that’s my dog over at...

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:53:00 -0500

Hey that’s my dog over at www.dogslookinglikepeople.tumblr.com
I guess I should have photoshopped in some clean carpeting.

With what shall I come before the LORD, And bow myself before the High God? Shall I...

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:13:58 -0500

With what shall I come before the LORD,
And bow myself before the High God?
Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings,
With calves a year old?
Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams,
Ten thousand rivers of oil?
Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,
The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
He has shown you, O man, what is good;
And what does the LORD require of you
But to do justly,
To love mercy,
And to walk humbly with your God?

Micah 6:6-8

Check out this green rollercoaster!

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:57:53 -0500

Check out this green rollercoaster!

Is a Picasa web album better than a Flicker set?

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:04:00 -0500

It’s interesting to compare a Flicker set with a Picasa Web album both using the same identical pictures and comments. Check them out and let me know which you prefer?

http://picasaweb.google.com/DTregembo/GoodTimes?feat=directlink

http://www.flickr.com/photos/reallife/sets/72157606628552690/

(do yourself a favor and navigate using the arrow keys)

Thought you might enjoy a few pictures of a motorcycle excursion...

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:22:00 -0500

Thought you might enjoy a few pictures of a motorcycle excursion I took last summer. You’ll be surprised to know that all photographs were taken within city limits. Click here to view the whole set on Flickr.

Photo

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:28:18 -0500