Holy cow! This was by far the best power bar I have ever tasted. It contained real pieces of fruit and was just delicious, while still containing 9g of protein. Unfortunately, it cost $4 at Tao Natural and Organic Foods, so it's an awfully pricey Cliff-Bar replacement, but it was just so good.
12/09/2008
Best Power Bar Ever
Holy cow! This was by far the best power bar I have ever tasted. It contained real pieces of fruit and was just delicious, while still containing 9g of protein. Unfortunately, it cost $4 at Tao Natural and Organic Foods, so it's an awfully pricey Cliff-Bar replacement, but it was just so good.
Best Power Bar Ever
Holy cow! This was by far the best power bar I have ever tasted. It contained real pieces of fruit and was just delicious, while still containing 9g of protein. Unfortunately, it cost $4 at Tao Natural and Organic Foods, so it's an awfully pricey Cliff-Bar replacement, but it was just so good.
11/24/2008
The Philosophers on Today's Financial Crisis
Plato: "How charming people are!--always doctoring, increasing and complicating their disorders, fancying they will be cured by some nostrum which somebody advises them to try, never getting better, but always growing worse...Are they not as good as a play, trying their hand at legislation, and imagining that by reform they will make an end to the dishonesties and rascalities of mankind--not knowing that in reality they are cutting away at the heads of a hydra!" (p28)
Aristotle: "Retail trade is unnatural,... and a mode by which men gain from one another. The most hated sort of such exchange is ... usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from its natural use. For money was intended as an instrument of exchange, and not as the mother of interest. This usury (tokos), which means the birth of money from money,... is of all modes of gain the most unnatural." Money should not breed. Hence "the discussion of the theory of finance is not unworthy of philosophy, but to be engaged in finance, or in money-making, is unworthy of a free man." (p107)
The quotes are from Will Durant's "The Story of Philosophy"
The Philosophers on Today's Financial Crisis
Plato: "How charming people are!--always doctoring, increasing and complicating their disorders, fancying they will be cured by some nostrum which somebody advises them to try, never getting better, but always growing worse...Are they not as good as a play, trying their hand at legislation, and imagining that by reform they will make an end to the dishonesties and rascalities of mankind--not knowing that in reality they are cutting away at the heads of a hydra!" (p28)
Aristotle: "Retail trade is unnatural,... and a mode by which men gain from one another. The most hated sort of such exchange is ... usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from its natural use. For money was intended as an instrument of exchange, and not as the mother of interest. This usury (tokos), which means the birth of money from money,... is of all modes of gain the most unnatural." Money should not breed. Hence "the discussion of the theory of finance is not unworthy of philosophy, but to be engaged in finance, or in money-making, is unworthy of a free man." (p107)
The quotes are from Will Durant's "The Story of Philosophy"
11/17/2008
Democracy is Coming to the USA
Leonard Cohen "Democracy"
For some reason, the video doesn't work on vox, but you can see it here.
Like all his other songs, he wrote at least 60 verses before choosing 5 or 6. I'd love to see them if anyone knows a link to them. I found a few in Zollo's terrific Songwriters on Songwriting, which I stumbled across at Smart Books. Here's one of the official verses.
Like all his other songs, he wrote at least 60 verses before choosing 5 or 6. I'd love to see them if anyone knows a link to them. I found a few in Zollo's terrific Songwriters on Songwriting, which I stumbled across at Smart Books. Here's one of the official verses.
It's coming to America first,
the cradle of the best and of the worst.
It's here they got the range
and the machinery for change
and it's here they got the spiritual thirst.
It's here the family's broken and it's here the lonely say
that the heart has got to open in a fundamental way:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
Democracy is Coming to the USA
Leonard Cohen "Democracy"
For some reason, the video doesn't work on vox, but you can see it here.
Like all his other songs, he wrote at least 60 verses before choosing 5 or 6. I'd love to see them if anyone knows a link to them. I found a few in Zollo's terrific Songwriters on Songwriting, which I stumbled across at Smart Books. Here's one of the official verses.
Like all his other songs, he wrote at least 60 verses before choosing 5 or 6. I'd love to see them if anyone knows a link to them. I found a few in Zollo's terrific Songwriters on Songwriting, which I stumbled across at Smart Books. Here's one of the official verses.
It's coming to America first,
the cradle of the best and of the worst.
It's here they got the range
and the machinery for change
and it's here they got the spiritual thirst.
It's here the family's broken and it's here the lonely say
that the heart has got to open in a fundamental way:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
11/08/2008
Things I Learned Wine Tasting
- You're supposed to swish the wine around as if it were mouthwash before swallowing. This enhances the bitterness (back of the tongue) and sourness (sides of the tongue) so much that the wine tastes absolutely disgusting. Probably worse than the first time you drank wine and thought it was bad. I imagine that with time, you learn to appreciate the disgustingness, but I'm not sure a deeper appreciation of wine is worth the effort.
- If you swirl the wine around the side of the glass and watch it slide back down, you see "legs." This is because as the alcohol evaporates, surface tension causes the wine to increase in density and then it can no longer resist gravity, so it runs down the side of the glass in little rivulets. Hence, the more alcohol in the wine, the thicker the legs.
- If you make a cork out of a diseased cork tree with a bacterial infection and then use it to seal the wine, the wine will taste disgusting and you may get sick. Therefore, screw tops are better for most wines that don't need to age and breathe.
Things I Learned Wine Tasting
- You're supposed to swish the wine around as if it were mouthwash before swallowing. This enhances the bitterness (back of the tongue) and sourness (sides of the tongue) so much that the wine tastes absolutely disgusting. Probably worse than the first time you drank wine and thought it was bad. I imagine that with time, you learn to appreciate the disgustingness, but I'm not sure a deeper appreciation of wine is worth the effort.
- If you swirl the wine around the side of the glass and watch it slide back down, you see "legs." This is because as the alcohol evaporates, surface tension causes the wine to increase in density and then it can no longer resist gravity, so it runs down the side of the glass in little rivulets. Hence, the more alcohol in the wine, the thicker the legs.
- If you make a cork out of a diseased cork tree with a bacterial infection and then use it to seal the wine, the wine will taste disgusting and you may get sick. Therefore, screw tops are better for most wines that don't need to age and breathe.
11/04/2008
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
A moral love story of the love triangle between a dot, a line, and a disorganized squiggle.
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
A moral love story of the love triangle between a dot, a line, and a disorganized squiggle.
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