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Friday, February 10, 2012

11 Things For Which I'm Grateful

1) The grammatical constructions "for which," "to which," and so on.  They make me feel smart.

2) Pitchers and catchers in eight days.


3) Lavoy Allen balling out.  If they really wanna do this thing, the Sixers need toughness and physical play.  Lavoy isn't enough, but he's been a pleasant surprise.  He battles his man on defense on every position, he rebounds, he hustles, and he makes open jumpers.

4) Recently, the Alliance for Student Activites, an organization dedicated to the promotion of the value of student activities for middle school and high school students, launched its "When X=Student Activities" campaign.  This presentation and its accompanying parts are a grassroots effort that will change the public education debate in this country, and I am proud to be a part of this effort.  Please click on the link above and "like" us.

5) The opportunity to work with Bob Tryanski on #4

6) "Postcards from Hell" by The Wood Brothers


7) The staff of the PASC Grove City Gold Workshop

8) David Uzumeri says that Frank Quitely is almost done with his issue of Grant Morrison's Multiversity, which may come out this summer.

9) A semester of leave, which allowed me to submit on Sunday the best article manuscript I have ever written and researched.

10) "This too shall pass, so raise your glass to change and chance.
And freedom is the only law.
Shall we dance?"

11) New opportunities

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Airplane Thoughts


Written on the plane to Akron yesterday.  I swear I did my job.

They had to put the locks on doors to the cockpit in the airplanes.  No cost was too great to prevent 9/11 from ever happening again.  I get that.  I agree.

And yet…

I remember the scenes from old movies where the stewardess came into the cockpit to ask a question or bring a soda.  There’d be some friendly banter.  If it was a comedy, the stewardess would be hot, the pilot awkward, and the pass me made at her comedicaly painful.

Today, I wonder if the stewardesses and pilots ever talk.  When can they?  Do they miss each other?  Is either job worse now than it was 20 years ago because you don’t get along as well or often with your coworkers?

We have gotten so good at putting barriers between each other that we now don’t even notice the costs to doing so.