Self-Stirring Pan

Neil Gaiman Commencement Address

Man, stranded in the desert, makes a motorcycle out of his broken car

While traveling through the desert somewhere in north west Africa in his
Citroen 2CV , [Emile] is stopped, and told not to go any further due to
some military conflicts in the area. Not wanting to actually listen to
this advice, he decides to loop around, through the desert, to circumvent
this roadblock.

After a while of treading off the beaten path, [Emile] manages to snap a
swing arm on his vehicle, leaving him stranded. He decided that the best
course of action was to disassemble his vehicle and construct a motorcycle
from the parts. This feat would be impressive on its own, but remember,
he's still in the desert and un-prepared. If we're reading this
correctly, he managed to drill holes by bending metal and sawing at it,
then un-bending it to be flat again.

It takes him twelve days to construct this thing.

You got the translation right, but there's not just a swing arm that's
broken, there's a frame beam broken too (not sure about the exact term,
one of the 2 girder of the chassis).
He's not far away but he has a lot of tools and other hardware that
could be stolen if he leaves them unattended.


http://hackaday.com/2012/05/21/man-stranded-in-the-desert-makes-a-motorcycle-from-his-broken-car/

The Problem With Music :Negativworldwidewebland

http://www.negativland.com/news/?page_id=17

Westminster School Memorial Day Service, May 18, 2012

Quote of the Day - Lyndon B. Johnson

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

from equotes

Letter from Abraham Lincoln to his brother asking for money

From Letters of Note

StayFocusd

Using a Chrome extension called StayFocusd that allows me to limit the time I spend on enumerated websites.  It's already made me more productive and it's only been four hours.  Two thumbs up.

We Choose to go to the Moon

Echo -- Westminster Faculty Singers at Winter Concert 2012

Outstanding Gaming metaphor to describe privilege

Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is

My friend Ted's website

Ted Schillinger

50 years of Government Spending in one chart

From Planet Money

Panopticon -- The newest in dormitory architecture

The trusses and the skylights look like something much more modern.

Quote of the day - Socrates

"Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place
of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they
contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and
tyrannize their teachers."�

Hulk reviews Ruffalo's Hulk

Very funny article from The New Yorker where Hulk is a movie critic.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/05/the-hulk-on-mark-ruffalos-hulk.html?currentPage=all

Harvard Baseball 2012 Call Me Maybe Cover

Maurice Sendak Story

Quote from "Where the Wild Things Are" --

"Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so!"�
―� [ http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4489.Maurice_Sendak ]Maurice
Sendak,� [ http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3020535 ]Where the Wild
Things Are


"Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it.
I loved it. I answer all my children's letters — sometimes very
hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a
picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, 'Dear Jim: I loved your card.'
Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, 'Jim loved your
card so much he ate it.' That to me was one of the highest compliments
I've ever received. He didn't care that it was an original Maurice
Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it."



Douglas Allen
Director of Planned Giving
Westminster School
phone: 860.408.3027
fax: 860.408.3044
http://www.westminster-school.org

Message to new Apple Employees

Quote of the day -- Nicholas Carr

To put it a different way, the sharecroppers operate happily in an attention economy while their overseers operate happily in a cash economy.

I Can Do Anything -- I believe in my smellf

Quote of the day -- Mark Twain

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
- Innocents Abroad

Q: How many designers does it take to change a light bulb?

A: Does it have to be a light bulb?

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K LeGuin

Pure utilitarianism.

Armless Man who Makes Stools

Finally, A Shark with a Laser Attached to its Head

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