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Posted in assorted on Mar 3rd, 2010
From Scott Adams’ blog at dilbert.com: Crazy or disciplined?
My wife and I often have very different recollections of events. And not just the little details. Sometimes our shared memories don’t even feature the same mammals, themes, or points. The scary part is that we don’t realize these differences until we have some reason to compare [...]
Posted in assorted on Feb 28th, 2010
From the New York Times: What Could You Live Without?.
Kevin Salwen, a writer and entrepreneur in Atlanta, was driving his 14-year-old daughter, Hannah, back from a sleepover in 2006. While waiting at a traffic light, they saw a black Mercedes coupe on one side and a homeless man begging for food on the other.
Dad, if [...]
Posted in assorted on Dec 1st, 2009
From The Guardian: Indian villager takes 14 years to dig tunnel through mountain.
An Indian villager burrowed for 14 years with a hammer and chisel to cut a tunnel through a mountain so that his neighbours could reach nearby fields and he could park his truck outside his home.
Ramchandra Das, 53, who lives in eastern Bihar [...]
Posted in assorted on Nov 25th, 2009
From the Guardian: German banker admits transferring money from rich to help poorer clients.
In these financially troubled times, bankers tend not to score too highly on the scale of public admiration, with their bonuses, bailouts and bad loans. But today details emerged of a woman who may confound the popular view that everyone in the [...]