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Saturday, September 29, 2007
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IQ TESTS
Written by Zach in News

Have you ever taken an IQ test on the internet? The tone of the results is excessively kind. Here’s one I took the other day.

Your Intellectual type is Rock Breaker. This means that you were born to excel at phsyical labor. You have great endurance and can easily distance your mind from repetitive tasks. Content to dwell in the shadows you are the lubricant that keeps industrial gears turning. This means that, although you dream big, you’re satisfied to accomplish small sometimes necessary jobs. You would be ideally suited to dig holes … …

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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
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“Few enterprises are so hopeless as a contest against fashion.” –Samuel Johson
Written by Zach in News

 

 

 

I am stunned by the part that fashion plays in opinion. We don’t use pudding to measure the height of a man—He’s 30,000 scoops of pudding tall. Why would we use something so amorphous and ever changing as fashion to measure the height of a work of art or worse, an ideology?

It is currently in vogue to have a personal creed so flexible that one can cling to the bucking upheavals of fashion and never be compelled to let go. You have to be able to shape shift in a blink and go from supreme idolatry of Britney Spears to …

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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
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The Coward and the Egoist
Written by Zach in News

Have you ever enjoyed a book or film and then read a reviewer who smothers the work in venom syrup? One of two things happens: One, your high opinion withers, and you relegate the film or book to the category of “guilty pleasure.” Regrettably, I’ve done this. This is generally a preferred course for people who don’t mind a certain amount of intellectual schizophrenia. By calling it a “guilty pleasure” you get to straddle the fence. On the one hand you like the thing, but suggest that your liking is without merit—it’s guilty. …

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Monday, September 17, 2007
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Carl Sandburg Quotation
Written by Zach in News

Those who say “I’ll try anything once”
Seldom try anything twice
Or three times
Arriving late at the Gate of Dreams Worth Dying For.

—Carl Sandburg

Friday, September 14, 2007
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OLD is the New NEW
Written by Zach in News

The Waffle House is a rock in the storm. The times may change, but the Waffle House does not. Bert’s Chilli, the 1960s decor, grimy floors, it’s all still there and it will continue to be there for our children and our grandchildren. Makes you feel good, doesn’t it?

At any rate, other companies have video contest and internet drawings to invigorate their base and raise their profile. Not to be outdone, the Waffle House is promoting their own competion. I know what you’re wondering. Have they bowed to the spirit of the age? …

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