December 2010
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An Inspirational Letter to My Students →
A must read on why writers should write, and why stories need to be consumed. I’ll give you a hint: it involves healing the human heart.
The cappuccino →
I am a coffee nerd. I really love it and am always trying to learn more about it. A good shot of espresso is hard to pull. You need skill. A great cappuccino is even more difficult to construct than a shot (or so a local barista said). This is a great article on the cappuccino: it’s origins, it’s composition and it’s goodness.
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The 21st century Metamorphoses: Except not as...
I am in a hotel room, writing from an iPad and marveling at technology. People are geniuses and I am in awe.
The fact that it took me 10 minutes to figure out how to turn it on, an extra 5 minutes of spinning the rotating screen around, 30 minutes to locate the keyboard’s underscore button and another 45 minutes (and the aid of my technology-fluent brother) to figure out app downloading, has not...
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The Cinematic State of Things →
A.O. Scott, New York Times film critic, provides a unique approach to the year-end list. Rather than simply list his top 10 movies of 2010, he attempts to categorize the top 10 themes of 2010 cinema. My favourite is “We are all figments of Leonardo Dicaprio’s imagination. Or Natalie Portman’s. Or Mark Zuckerberg’s. Or Banksy’s.”
“The ritual of year-end...
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The Evolution of College-going Gear →
GOOD.is created this “Evolution of College-going Gear” chart as part of their “GOOD Guide to College Preparedness Feature.” I love the innovative jump between the improved highlighter and the iPad.
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