October 2009
35 posts
“The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should,...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the...”
– G.K. Chesterton
The Rock →
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A beautiful shot.
I love this place to see the sunset.
Canon 40D with Sigma 10-20 + Hitech GND filters.
Resolutions: 2560x1600, 2560x1440, 2560x1024, 1920x1200,…
“Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.”
– G.K. Chesterton
What Startups Are Really Like →
Useful read, and not just for startups :)
The Last Green Thing in the World →
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As usual, Esolen captures a rare beauty with words.
At lunch the other day, a young adjunct in my department, whom I was meeting for the first time, said a few things that…
Eyes of the Vortex →
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Sweet.
This happened October 26th, 2008 on a cloudy afternoon. I'm an aviation enthusiast and I was waiting for Iberia's Airbus A340 to arrive as I do many other…
“It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.”
– G.K. Chesterton
“Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be...”
– G.K. Chesterton
Calvin and Hobbes for October 21, 2009 →
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Sadly I got this a lot…
“It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
– G.K. Chesterton
Applied Philosophy, a.k.a. "Hacking" →
Every system has two sets of rules: The rules as they are intended or commonly perceived, and the actual rules (“reality”). In most complex systems, the gap between these two sets of rules is huge. …
The Name of the Rose →
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Beautiful.
One of the most incredible Italian churches, the oratory of Santa Maria della Pietà at Rocca Calascio, in Abruzzo, Italy. Canon EOS 40D, Canon 16/35 USM L.
“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.”
– G.K. Chesterton
“Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.”
– G.K. Chesterton
“I believe, in order to understand; and I understand, the better to believe.”
– St. Augustine
“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives....”
– G.K. Chesterton
“How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.”
– G.K. Chesterton
“The past is not what it was.”
– G.K. Chesterton
“A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a...”
– G.K. Chesterton, 1926
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors....”
– G.K. Chesterton
“Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision,...”
– G.K. Chesterton