- Proverbs for Paranoids, 3: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.—Gravity’s Rainbow
‘Is it about a bicycle?’ he asked.—The Third Policeman
Monthly Archives: January 2006
Concision
It’s true: I try to be concise. Sometimes this has worked out well. For instance, a favorite professor once wrote on a paper of mine: “Short, sweet, to the point.” On the other hand, my current boss continually presses me to flesh out what he calls my “orphic utterances.”
Well, here’s what Marianne Moore had to [...]
Privacy
Leave aside the Bush administration’s abuses that have captured our attention recently. It turns out anyone can get ahold of your phone records—and at a pretty affordable price, too. (Kos has more here).
Unread
Here’s a sig that resonates:
In the future, everyone will have a blog, and none of them will be read. My unread blog will be Symmachus.
(Found it over at Daily Kos—a phenomenally widely read blog.)
Slippage