Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Picture Me Here!
Two months to the day after putting my house on the market, I rented it to terrific tenants who leased it with an option to buy.
So you know what that means???
I'm moving to Prague!
I'm moving to Prague!
I'm moving to Prague!
Sunday, August 24, 2008
A Spring Awakening for Human Rights
He says,
A good illustration of our conflicting attitudes toward the communist past was a recent discussion in the Czech Parliament of a the new state-run Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, which is to hold and study the communist archives. In giving the institute such a complicated name, lawmakers had to define “totalitarianism.” In the end, they decided that totalitarianism in the Czech Republic includes the entire period from the communist takeover in 1948 to the Velvet Revolution in 1989.Oppression has always produced great art, hasn't it? Solzhenitsyn comes to mind. Lack of oppression, if it doesn't produce equally great art, has the consoling attribute of producing great wealth.But including 1968 in the totalitarian period makes it difficult to explain how it’s possible that the Prague Spring produced works of literature, film and drama more significant than anything the country has produced since the fall of communism.
Link to the article via the title.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Wonderful food eases newly empty nest
Within a few blocks of daughter #1's new apartment there is a Japanese, Peruvian, Laotian, Swiss, and Vietnamese restaurant. I especially admire the exuberance of the Vietnamese owners, they called theirs the "I'm Here" restaurant.
The last time I had any exposure to Peruvian culture was my fourth grade shoebox diorama on the Incas, so I voted for the Peruvian restaurant called "Inka Heritage." It was a choice we did not regret.
I chose Tres Leches.
The spongy cake and liquid under whipped creme
was interesting texturally.
Friday, August 22, 2008
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Medals Per Capita
Monday, August 18, 2008
Hey Google, you should invent this
Gold Medal Writing
Hat's off to Bill Fitzgerald of Yahoo Sports for showing a gold medal sense of humor and fun. Link to the story via the title.