This is the last of the photographs of the Vietnamese flower shop (Brenda's) across from St. Kevin's church on Dot Ave. I like the way the interior and exterior, inside and outside, are brought together, combined and compressed into a single plane.
Quote of the Day Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
Bobby Knight
Quote of the Day Fate loves the fearless.
James Russell Lowell
Now me, I would have said fate favors the fearless. And put it on a t-shirt. Which I may yet do. But then, who am I to argue with one of the Fireside Poets from the PRC? Whose house still stands.
Check out this New Yorkerarticle about WikiLeaks' Julian Assange.
He had come to understand the defining human struggle not as left versus right, or faith versus reason, but as individual versus institution. As a student of Kafka, Koestler, and Solzhenitsyn, he believed that truth, creativity, love, and compassion are corrupted by institutional hierarchies, and by “patronage networks”—one of his favorite expressions—that contort the human spirit. He sketched out a manifesto of sorts, titled “Conspiracy as Governance,” which sought to apply graph theory to politics. Assange wrote that illegitimate governance was by definition conspiratorial—the product of functionaries in “collaborative secrecy, working to the detriment of a population.” He argued that, when a regime’s lines of internal communication are disrupted, the information flow among conspirators must dwindle, and that, as the flow approaches zero, the conspiracy dissolves. Leaks were an instrument of information warfare.
Doesn't this remind you of Vietnam? Poor Obama. He inherited this whole mess - the wars, the economy (both linked) - from the utterly inept Shrub. But why didn't he turn and run 180° in the opposite direction? And why doesn't he do so now? How much failure does it take to admit failure? Let's just declare victory and walk away.
More messages from China, translated by Google, then WorldLingo ...
G: Are there items in the law of stupid laws: "an organization of fools, Hengda is equal to two-thirds in.
W: Has the item of fool law is it possible that in the law: “In an organization's fool, is bigger than permanently is equal to 2/3.
These "comments" occur all the time now. They never have anything to do with the journal entry or image and also never make any sense, even allowing for a large 'lost in translation' factor. Suntori! Am I getting hacked or merely harassed? A Chinese translation appears below (if Google got it right).
Welcome! Tales of a Seaside Inn is a sweeping illustrated historical novel of the sea, seaside, Rowley, Massachusetts and the far-flung Morris family spanning from Elizabethan England to present-day New England.
