Month: February 2010

So, this asshat “MBA 2010 Candidate” sends a professor a pissy e-mail complaining about being humiliated when he is kicked out of a class when he arrives one hour late.  The e-mail response is epic; the quote “You are an anonymous student who is now regretting the send button on his laptop” is an understatement…

The actress happens to have Down Syndrome, so her statement is quite significant. One quote stands out:

In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life. My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes.

Burn! 🙂

This interview with Scottish photojournalist Harry Benson is a nice overview of low-light shooting techniques.

Religion now appears so early in civilized life—earlier than civilized life, if Schmidt is correct—that some think it may be less a product of culture than a cause of it, less a revelation than a genetic inheritance. The archeologist Jacques Cauvin once posited that “the beginning of the gods was the beginning of agriculture,” and Göbekli may prove his case.

I’ve only read one of these (“A Canticle for Leibovitz,” which I highly recommend), but some of these sound interesting. More books added to my “to read” list…