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This week I’ve been doing a lot of training at work. Mostly it’s been training other people, showing them how to do things that will make their job a lot easier (and, incidentally, making mine easier too because they can bear some of the burden that used to fall on me). It’s an odd coincidence [...]
Do you ever make New Year’s resolutions? It seems like everyone talks about them, but I know very few people who actually make them—or if they do they don’t tell me about them. Several years ago I read an article that suggested “going public†when setting a goal. Tell your friends, your family, anyone about [...]
For many readers there’s something missing from their lives today following the death of John Updike. This morning listening to New Yorker editor David Remnick say how Updike “meant everything” to the magazine for half a century I thought about how there was something missing from my education, a major gap. I’ve never read an [...]
Most people know that fortune cookies aren’t really Chinese even though they’ve been a part of almost every Chinese restaurant meal since…well, apparently since at least the end of World War II, according to Jennifer Eight Lee, whose book The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food details her search for the [...]
Last Monday, January 19th, 2009, a very special historical event quietly slipped by. It was the 200th birthday of Edgar Allan Poe. He’s the classic American gothicist, the brooding, somber author who peers at us out of a famous portrait. His work has kept his memory alive, but it’s probably his life that’s even more [...]
One of the most confusing words I know is data. What’s confusing about it? It’s a simple word we use that means “information”, right? Well, it’s not that simple. I know data is actually plural, and the singular is datum. According to the Oxford English Dictionary datum is a Latin word meaning “that which is [...]
At least once I week I try to get together with a few cool people I work with for a friendly lunchtime game of Scrabble. It’s a fun way to relax and have fun in the middle of the work week. I have to add a quick brag: after years of playing Scrabble in various [...]
There’s an old joke that goes like this: Heaven is where the police are English, the engineers are German, the cooks are French, and the lovers are Italian. Hell is where the cooks are English, the engineers are French, the police are Italian, and the lovers are German. It’s a little bit of national-stereotype humor, [...]
History is by nature cumulative, but, in the steady accretion of individuals and societies, it’s unfortunate but inevitable that some things get lost. Fortunately we have archaeologists to uncover, to rediscover, what’s disappeared. Some of the most significant archaeological discoveries of the past two centuries are the subjects of C.W. Ceram’s Gods, Graves, And Scholars, [...] |
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