Dear art students. No. you are not that interesting. If it isn’t both monumental, demonstrating mastery of the craft, and demonstrating extraordinary evidence of human thought and care, then it’s a waste of your time and ours.
Thank you.
Lesson over.
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-01 11:10:00 UTC
A PROPER (Ukrainian) TEA
Tall Thick Glass Tumbler ~700ml / 24oz.
2.5 tsp tea leaves English Breakfast Tea.
Add boiling Water to fill.
Cover top of glass with plate and let steep.
Wait ten minutes, and then remove Plate.
Let cool until drinkable.
Add 3 tsp honey.
Add Juice of one lemon.
Stir a lot.
Perfect.
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-01 08:24:00 UTC
***All wise men are the same. They have worked hard enough at some study or other that they no longer rely upon introspection for the purpose of evaluation.
We have obviously lost sight of the fact that it is not the study of the subject matter that makes him wise, but that through his study of subject matter he no longer relies upon introspection for tests of reasonableness, decidability or truth.
It takes much of a lifetime to train our minds out of circular reference – internal dependence – and into external correspondence. Partly because we train ourselves incidentally rather than purposefully.
It is my hope, my belief, and my aspiration, that we can, through education, make truthfulness as common a discipline as grammar and arithmetic. Just as we have made the language of general rules – that which we call science – a replacement for the language of a host of case specific rules. And just as we made case specific rules a replacement for mysticism.***
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-01 07:34:00 UTC
— “one of the central problems with the formation of any ‘society’ is providing men with the incentive to defend a commons.”—
“This point is missed by most. Modern men have become soft, voyeurs (porn, gaming and sports) neglecting the martial duties of manhood. Defense of our folk is vital to our survival. Universal suffrage and feminism represent a defensive failing.” — Howard Roarrk
Source date (UTC): 2016-02-29 11:30:00 UTC
—“Charles I’s speech in his own defense when Cromwell and the parliament put him on trial” — Colin Laney
“I would know by what power I am called hither … I would know by what authority, I mean lawful ; there are many unlawful authorities in the world; thieves and robbers by the high-ways … Remember, I am your King, your lawful King, and what sins you bring upon your heads, and the judgement of God upon this land. Think well upon it, I say, think well upon it, before you go further from one sin to a greater … I have a trust committed to me by God, by old and lawful descent, I will not betray it, to answer a new unlawful authority; therefore resolve me that, and you shall hear more of me.
I do stand more for the liberty of my people, than any here that come to be my pretended judges … I do not come here as submitting to the Court. I will stand as much for the privilege of the House of Commons, rightly understood, as any man here whatsoever: I see no House of Lords here, that may constitute a Parliament … Let me see a legal authority warranted by the Word of God, the Scriptures, or warranted by the constitutions of the Kingdom, and I will answer.
It is not a slight thing you are about. I am sworn to keep the peace, by that duty I owe to God and my country; and I will do it to the last breath of my body. And therefore ye shall do well to satisfy, first, God, and then the country, by what authority you do it. If you do it by an usurped authority, you cannot answer it; there is a God in Heaven, that will call you, and all that give you power, to account.
If it were only my own particular case, I would have satisfied myself with the protestation I made the last time I was here, against the legality of the Court, and that a King cannot be tried by any superior jurisdiction on earth: but it is not my case alone, it is the freedom and the liberty of the people of England; and do you pretend what you will, I stand more for their liberties. For if power without law, may make laws, may alter the fundamental laws of the Kingdom, I do not know what subject he is in England that can be sure of his life, or any thing that he calls his own.”
Source date (UTC): 2016-02-29 11:29:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle shared a post.
Source date (UTC): 2016-02-29 11:27:00 UTC
Ukraine (mostly stress) has not been good to my hair. Gonna have to take off what’s left on top. Why am I nervous? No, I don’t have a problem with it. I think it’s masculine.
The problem is, that I’m afraid I’ll look like Bernanke. lol
Source date (UTC): 2016-02-29 07:21:00 UTC
NO MORE LIES. We are sick of their lies. Their propagandizing. Their pseudoscience. Their psychologizing. Political correctness.
Truth is enough.
Kill them all.
Source date (UTC): 2016-02-28 17:58:00 UTC
all work and no play makes curt a dull boy, but sure as heck gets a lot of work done….
I wrote all of the permissions documentation today, and a chunk of the workflow – and I am going to see if I can get thru the workflow before I sleep tonight.
It takes a lot more time to write the functional documentation (what, and why) than it does the how documentation. Pretty soon I ‘ll be done with all the user-level why and what, and have just HOW to work on. And I can’t wait.
sigh…
Source date (UTC): 2016-02-28 10:44:00 UTC
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/academic-freedom-under-threat-by-chris-patten-2016-02#5ZGBWyyml1qdWSF0.01THE CLOSING OF THE WESTERN ACADEMIC MIND
Source date (UTC): 2016-02-28 09:11:00 UTC