MEN’S STYLE
It’s official. While the height of men’s fashion was the 1950’s in america, and Ralph Lauren and Gucci tend to perpetuate these ideals, the current heart of men’s fashion is actually GERMANY.
So cool.
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-17 07:32:00 UTC
THE PROBLEM OF LONDON : MULTICULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS
We are staying at a hotel on the Thames, near London bridge. It’s beautiful.
And it has taken an hour to get coffee and pastries. Now that the tray arrives, it includes two breakfasts that we didn’t order. The Russian delivery man calls the hispanic order taker, and talks to the Turkish cook, and they must speak in pidgin because they cannot really communicate.
I can’t get my freaking morning coffee because the hotel doesn’t consider facility with language a skill.
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-17 07:12:00 UTC
(Cultural observations: V, like many Ukrainians, is really against the use of drugs, to a degree that an american has trouble understanding the agitation of it. It’s right up there with cheating on your spouse, in the ‘very, very, bad’ department of unforgivable sins. I mean, alcohol is everywhere, but even pot is something that is pretty hard to come across. And honestly, they have it right here. I get it. The problem with alcohol is really just cars. As far as I can tell, pot culture is pacifist but more influential on behavior than alcohol-party culture. I just don’t understand why the crutch is so important in the states — wait. Yes I do. Alienation. Loneliness. The dissolution of the family. That’s why. Ukrainians have real friends and family. Westerners rarely have the same.)
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-17 07:05:00 UTC
OPPORTUNITY COSTS: PROBLEMS VS PUZZLES
(not to dismiss entertainment, but this is one of my rules)
Chess is like crack or math – I love it, and I love puzzles. I love it like I would love heroin, or cocaine. But puzzles are not problems. Puzzles eat time, and don’t make money. I learned to enjoy puzzles that make money. And those puzzles have a name: ‘problems’.
I am not sure that fitness at puzzles assists you in fitness at problems. In fact, I am fairly sure that the answer is no. Since every solved puzzle is a lost opportunity for problem solving, I cant imagine so.
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-16 16:47:00 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEEXmNhbBsETRUST AND DEMAND FOR THE STATE
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-16 11:36:00 UTC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Monarchia”DE MONARCHIA” —> “DE ARISTOCRATIA”
Riffing off of Dante
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-16 07:35:00 UTC
You cant view islamic culture as primitive. They have weaponized the family.
See Emmanuel Todd.
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-15 16:28:00 UTC
PARKS AS MONUMENTS TO OUR ABILITY TO CREATE COMMONS
Something more profound than is clear at first:
Which cultures produce parks? Who in those cultures produces them? Why can they produce them? And why can other cultures not produce them?
Why do some cultures succeed in creating and not consuming commons and other cultures fail?
Why is it that american parks are disappearing?
Are parks not a monument?
A monument to what?
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-15 09:01:00 UTC
http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/usa-viking-ship-discovered-near-mississipi-river/
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-15 08:40:00 UTC
Alpha Widow??? Great term. Yeah. Guilty.
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-14 06:59:00 UTC