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My friend’s blog.
While I lived in Rome, I did as the Romans do. So I built some aqueducts, and made some friends. Two or three would make great Lichtenbergians. www.jumpexam.com I wanted to share a blog from one of those friends, Michael Bailey, a professor of history at Berry College. I thought…
L.08.8: (self-portrait) Dale
I’m going to claim that this was taken in response to our resetting our self-portraits in terms of famous photographs/paintings. It’s a Rembrandt self-portrait, see? Actually, this is in the restroom of Café Lily in Decatur, where we went to celebrate Ginny’s birthday. I liked the look, and quite frankly,…
Taking a Moment: David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace hanged himself: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/books/14wallace.html The article does not mention he also played competitive tennis in his teens. Â My one impression of him from a Charlie Rose interview was of affable intensity and a desire to reveal a genuine thinking indecisiveness in his responses. Â I don’t know if anything…
Meeting & Assignment L.08.9
Next Saturday, September 20, I need my fellow Lichtenbergians to assist me in Contemplation of the Labyrinth. You can read about my dilemma here. As Herodotus tells us, whenever the Persians had an important decision to make, they’d get drunk and chat it over. Then, if their solution still made…
OK, I’ll play.
Well, I tried to upload my self-portrait, and I get this mumbo-jumbo C2090-611 crap: Unable to create directory /Volumes/data/home/dalelyles/www.lichtenbergian.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09. Is its parent directory writable by the server? C2090-611
An ape’s attic antics…
So I was wallowing and wandering in my archival attic as I put off my daily line C2020-703 learning session, and I came across a theme that might do nicely to hold together some of our ongoing Lichtenbergian concerns: Â Everything from the challenges of self-representation to seeking out criteria for…