Owner: J O N T I L L M A N . C O M URL:http://jontillman.com Join Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:28:04 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: I am a thirty-something American expat living on Eastern fringe of London. I have had a variety of jobs, seen and done a variety of things, lived a variety of places, have ten fingers, ten toes and one belly button. Site statistics:Click here
Daily Quote… On Sauntering 2007-02-01 01:00:06
It is a great art to saunter. The swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot. Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts, of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
– Henry David Thoreau
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Post Punk Kitchen Videos 2007-01-31 16:37:56 Earlier I mentioned the Post Punk Kitchen
, the public access punk rock vegan cooking show from Brooklyn. Now I can share the love, via Google video. Enjoy!
Additionally, they run a vegan cupcake blog, a very funny commentary blog, and are generally funny and amusing and stuff.
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Daily Quote… On Modern Art 2007-01-31 01:00:24 Modern
art touches a sore spot, or several sore spots, in the ordinary citizen of which he is totally unaware. The more irritated he becomes at modern art the more he betrays the fact that he himself, and his civilization, are implicated in what the artist shows him.
– William Barrett (Irrational Man)
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Daily Quote… On Fundamentalism 2007-01-30 01:00:52
Fundamentalism means sticking strictly to the script, which in turn means being deeply fearful of the improvised, ambiguous or indeterminate…Since writing is meaning that can be handled by anybody, any time, it is always profane and promiscuous. Meaning that has been written down is bound to be unhygienic…Fundamentalism is the paranoid condition of those who do not see that roughness is not a defect of human existence, but what makes it work.
– Terry Eagleton (The Guardian 22 Feb. 2003)
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…on embarassing drinking 2007-01-29 05:31:52 One of the most awkward things that can happen in a pub is when your pint-to-toilet cycle gets synchronized with a complete stranger.
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The Taktshang Goemba 2007-02-01 11:46:57 The Taktshang Goemba (Tiger’s Nest) Monastery
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The Loneliness of the Bloggers? 2007-02-01 10:53:24 The Globe & Mail ran an article yesterday about Communication professor turned author-cum-blogcritic Michael Keren who is drumming up publicity for his new book by claiming that bloggers are isolated and lonely, living in a virtual reality instead of forming real relationships or helping to change the world:
Bloggers think of themselves as rebels against mainstream society, but that rebellion is mostly confined to cyberspace, which makes blogging as melancholic and illusionary as Don Quixote tilting at windmills
It is patently ridiculous to attempt to paint 3,900,000 people with the same brush. Perhaps Mr. Keren has not heard of blogging as reflective practice? There are very few people who “blog” anywhere close to full time. Of those who do, very few work at it 40, 50 or 60 hours a week, as is common in many other jobs.
I don’t consider my situation to be unusual or special in any way - I am not a “blog celebrity” by any stretch of the imagination,
Thirteen Steps Forward 2007-02-01 08:19:19
As I work my way through the 101 in 1001 project, I am keeping track of my progress on an individual page for each task. However, I have made a lot of progress in the first month (out of about 32) of the project.
Here are thirteen things I have done this month to come closer to acheiving my goals:
Taken Control of My Weight: I am on my way to my healthy weight, as I talked about in detail last week I continue to make progress, adjusting my diet as I go to be more well-rounded and healthier.
Quit Smoking: I have put down my cigarettes, more than three weeks ago now; and given that I no longer crave one after meals, down the pub, or any other time really, I am willing now to declare victory.
Eat On A Schedule: I am now eating breakfast on a regular basis for the first time in probably a decade. Not only do I feel better as a result, I have rediscovered a love of good breakfast foods; homemade hash browns, porridge, tofu scramble, etc…
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Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. 2007-02-02 06:26:59 In the New York Times Magazine last week, Michael Pollan wrote an article entitled Unhappy Meals, in which he blasts the prevalent particularly American and reductionist approach to looking at food that turns everything into pseudo-scientific “essential nutrients”.
Instead of this “nutritionism” as he calls it, he counsels a more realistic view of eating, based on what we actually know about food, which is not much. Nutrition scientists have barely begun to unravel the incredibly complex web of connections and interdependences between foods, so to treat nutrition as a solved problem is ridiculous, and should be avoided.
The article is long, but the advice in it is remarkably simple: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. To expand a bit on that pithy line, here are the major points he makes:
Eat Food, not products. If you great-grandmother wouldn’t know what it was, don’t eat it.
Don’t be fooled by health claims. Nutritional fads won’t
Daily Quote… On Sitting Still 2007-02-02 01:00:57
He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea.
– Henry David Thoreau
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2007-02-03 11:11:39 US Energy Secretary Sam Bodman said he accepted the conclusions of the scientists.
“We’re very pleased with it. We’re embracing it. We agree with it,”
he said;
“Human activity is contributing to changes in our Earth’s climate and that issue is no longer up for debate.”
Hell, but not much else, has now officially frozen over.
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Spook Country 2007-02-03 10:31:42 Woo hoo! Proofs corrected and in as of today, publication on August 7. When does my ARC arrive? I will update the library page as soon as I have it in my grubby little hands…
Here is a short description from the US publisher Putnam’s catalog:
Tito is in his early 20s. Cuban by ancestry, he speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a Nolita warehouse, and does delicate jobs involving information transfer.
Hollis Henry is a journalist, on investigative assignment from a magazine called Node. Node doesn't exist yet, which is fine, she's used to that, but it seems to be actively preventing the kind of buzz that magazines normally cultivate before they begin to exist. That would be odd, and even a little scary, if Hollis allowed herself to think about it much, which she can't afford to do.
Milgrim is a junkie. A high-end junkie, hooked on prescription anti-anxiety drugs, but he figures he wouldn't survive 24 hours if Brown, the mystery man who saved him from a misunde Read more:Country
Daily Quote… On Courage 2007-02-04 01:00:46
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
– Anaïs Nin
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Daily Quote… On Apathy 2007-02-05 01:00:31
Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.
– John Muir
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Daily Quote… On Faith & Doubt 2007-02-06 01:00:18
Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt to enjoy them.
– G.K. Chesterton
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Web 2.0 Entrepreneur's Toolbox 2007-02-06 18:36:46 With so many interesting companies coming out of the “web 2.0″ movement, I thought you might like to have your own. Here are all of the tools you will need to get started building your own buzzworthy new company, ripe to sell to Yahoo!:
Define Your Product
Develop a Mission Statement
Name Your Company
Create your corporate logo
Generate marketing materials
Sell your company to Yahoo
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