since i’ve been blogging, i’m not going to dignify the source by linking to it.
Jillian Harris, Vancouver’s most famous singleton, says she wants an honest man — one who will tell her if she’s got a booger in her nose.
She’s hoping to find him on reality television.
… i mean, really.
By the book
And I would have won the argument
or I would have lost it
and the rule would have been
whatever the rule was.
But I believe that,
that’s what the rule was,
‘cause that’s what it said in the book
and ah, and I’m, I don’t
have a copy anymore
of the Ministerial Handbook but,
but I’m sure you do.
Wall Street on the Tundra | Vanity Fair
Since its fishing policy transformed Iceland, the place has become, in effect, a machine for turning cod into Ph.D.’s.
But this, of course, creates a new problem: people with Ph.D.’s don’t want to fish for a living. They need something else to do.
[…]
Enter investment banking.
Only occasionally do i feel moved to review something here. Well, “moved” would be the wrong word, because sometimes i do it out of whimsy more than admiration, and ‘here’ might not refer to the current incarnation of this blog. Anyways, after finishing Blackstrap Hawco i find myself wanting to say something.
i always imagined Annie Proulx writing The Shipping News barred up in a hotel room in St. John’s somewhere, experiencing and learning nothing, and still trying to pass off its portrayal of rural Newfoundland within the novel as authentic. People don’t sit around in restaurants all day in rural Newfoundland, you know, even post-moratorium. It’s all well and good that she needed an isolated environment to play her characters off of, i just wish she’d used one real to her, instead of claiming ours.
Ken Harvey, on the other hand, gets it. Newfoundland – i am at a loss for a synonym here, “this province” or “this nation” or “this place” are not wide enough to fit the context – is not a literary tool in his book, it is a frame. Blackstrap Hawco captures the real Newfoundland, its history of isolation and deprivation and exploitation, its legends of perseverance and survival. The title character is essentially set up as a Newfoundland messiah. The history of Newfoundland, as expressed in the narrative by the experiences of his family and ancestors, is what makes him what he is and what motivates him to do what he does. But he is also doomed by that history to fail, becoming another tragic ghost in a book full of ghosts. In the end, though, Blackstrap Hawco joins the legends as well as the ghosts.
i wish everyone who read The Shipping News and thought it showed a quaint and interesting place would read Blackstrap Hawco.
Welcome, Wired. We call this land “Internet” | Boing Boing Gadgets
Since then, Wired.com’s grown to 11 million monthly visitors: its blogs are among the best in their fields and its tech news reportage is among the finest, online or off […]. The sheer size of that readership speaks volumes: the Times says the magazine has only 700k or so subscribers. (It’s a damn shame that online advertising is devalued compared to print advertising, but that’s the media world for you.)
Notable for the comments from several Wired people, anonymous and otherwise, discussing.
And on a website that started out as a failed print magazine, how ironic.
Robert Augustus Chesebrough, January 9, 1837 – September 8, 1938) was a chemist and the inventor of petroleum jelly, trade-named Vaseline.
[…]
Chesebrough lived to be 101 years old and was such a believer in Vaseline that he claimed to have eaten a spoonful of it every day.
Contamination is your enemy. Everything must be clean.
A ‘Copper Standard’ for the world’s currency system?
“China has woken up. The West is a black hole with all this money being printed. The Chinese are buying raw materials because it is a much better way to use their $1.9 trillion of reserves. They get ten times the impact, and can cover their infrastructure for 50 years.”
“The next industrial revolution is going to be led by hybrid cars, and that needs copper. You can see the subtle way that China is moving into 30 or 40 countries with resources.”
