Sense and Nonsense

Best Marriage Proposal Ever

Hard to top this (via Crooks & Liars):

Isaac wanted to propose to his girlfriend, so he enlisted over 60 friends to stage a Busby Berkeley street-show lip-dub extravaganza ambush. What follows is five minutes of heart-stoppingly sweet and romantic wedding proposal. I mean: Z. O. M. F.G.

On Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012, I told my girlfriend to meet me at my parent's house for dinner. When she arrived I had stationed my brother to sit her in the back of an open Honda CRV and give her some headphones. He "wanted to play her a song"...

What she got instead was the world's first Live Lip-Dub Proposal.

 

Chicago Gala

Last weekend (March 28th), Sue and I were in Chicago for a gala event, held in the Grand Ballroom of the Chicago Hilton.  Below, you see Sue, me, and the Grand Ballroom. (Click on each thumbnail to pull up the full-size photo.)

 

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The last time I was in that ballroom was in 1995, when David Yalof and I delivered a paper at the annual American Political Science Association convention.  The hotel was packed, and the APSA was using every available space in the hotel.  Yalof and I spoke in that huge ballroom before a "crowd" of about 14 people. Pretty humilitating.  But it was a damn good paper. 

 

 

Guide to Single Malt Whiskies

This is a handy guide to Scottish single malt whiskies, plotted on a grid with two sets of variables. Horizontally, from light (left) to rich (right); and vertically, from delicate (bottom) to smoky (top). 

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Get with the Program!

I have some colleagues who just don't get it!  Surely, you encounter the same problem with some of your colleagues and friends.  Why don't these people understand that an expression of empathy is different from an apology.  Good lord.

 

 

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Things NOT to Say at a Job Interview

Someone interviewing for a teaching position this week said, "If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't be a teacher."  

Cats are the Enemy

All you people who oppose wind turbines because they harm birds, pay attention: CATS are the true enemy of birds.  See here.

Why Do Parents Let Their Daughters Dress Like Prostitutes?

Here's an interesting take on the subject.

Auld Lang Syne

Peggy Noonan's column in today's Wall Street Journal examines the origin and meaning of "Auld Lang Syne," the traditional New Year's anthem.  "Old times past." 

I'll "take a cup of kindness yet" for all of you, my friends.  Happy new year. 

Oh no! Oh no!

© Bill Watterson

I don't want to be here at the end of August either!

My Attitude, Too

"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."

    -- Mark Twain