It’s ironic that the king of #copyright, #Disney, copied its iconic castle from Neuschwanstein Castle. (Or would Disney say pirated?)

Reading Washington Irving’s comical Knickerbocker’s History of New York. Which begins, like all the best histories, with the creation of the universe. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64232160

@mbjunior nice list!

“All human beings, driven as they are at different speeds by the same Furies, are at close range equally extraordinary.”<br /><br /> “There is always a real and an imaginary person you are in love with; sometimes you love one best, sometimes the other.” <br /><br /> “One starts these things and then the question arises: how is one to continue them? Before you know where you are, you are thoroughly entangled. That is what we all have to remember.” <br /><br />—Anthony Powell, The Acceptance World (A Dance to the Music of Time)<br /><br />#powelldancing

Signing out of social media again. Will spend some time with Nick Jenkins, Holmes, various Buddenbrooks, and some imposters at Blandings.

Good evening!

In your replies, list 10 books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take more than a few minutes and do not think too hard. They do not have to be the “right” books or great works of literature, just ones that have affected you in some way. Here are mine:
1. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
2. Summerland by Michael Chabon
3. A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
4. Borrowed Time, an AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette
5. The Barbary Lane stories by Armistead Maupin
6. Three Men in a Boat (to say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K Jerome
7. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
8. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
9. Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
10. Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Cheers my friends @lohang and @lnxw48

Motto: “La mort fromage—quel dommage!”

or how about @question comparing the heaney transl. to the new Tolkien transl.

I have a small supply of pre-ground coffee and a gas burner just in case the power goes out. No candles, no flashlights, but the #coffee will be made.

The nature of a virus:
One of the really horrifying things about Ebola is that it’s a life form. It doesn’t have a consciousness, it doesn’t have anything like morality. Its main purpose is to survive and to perpetuate itself. It’s a parasite that thrives on the love that exists among human beings. — Richard Preston describing Ebola http://www.vox.com/2014/10/21/7027587/ebola-hot-zone-outbreak-richard-preston, although it applies equally to HIV and many other viruses. It’s part of what fascinates me about the unending battle inside my body.

“I correct because I care.” —Charles Roth, ‪#‎GrammarKnight‬ (and Chief Grammatical Officer of the World Wide Web)

Finally making the matzo ball soup I have been craving. Let the healing begin.

Congratulations & felicitations @mbjunior

“I went gloomily in the house, and, with a resignation borne of
adversity, swallowed the mixture of chicory and liquorice which my
housekeeper possessed the secret of distilling from the best and most
expensive #coffee.“ —Major Yeates, RM in Some Experiences of an
Irish RM

Waiting to feel sleepy whilst re-reading one of my favorites: Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.

Greetings!

Ginger, galangal, turmeric, and cardamom are all part of the ginger family. #WhoKnew

This to me is the killer feature:
#^Test the new Firefox Hello WebRTC feature in Firefox Beta http://vox.a2c3.co/url/432



One of the great features of Firefox Hello is that you don’t need to create an account in order to connect with the people that matter to you most. You simply share a callback link with the person you want to connect with and when they click on the link the call begins.