Ling- English
You live the way you greet
W.B. Stanford, commentary on Homer, Odyssey 5.205: the Roman 'health' or 'strength' (ave, salve, vale), the Jewish 'peace' (shalom), typically of each nation's history. via Laudator Temporis Acti.
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Ling- English
Mind your metaphors: We're a team, not a family
So I’ve said to them that the analogy that best suits us is, “We’re a team,” and in a team, everybody’s got a role to play. And the team wins when everybody plays their roles to their best ability. The other thing that’s different in a
Joshua Bell
What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
via washingtonpost.com.
Ling- Castellano
Leonard Cohen, Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras
¡Enhorabuena, compatriota! La poesía cantada, esas novelas de seis minutos y pico, la prosa mecida por inconfundibles melodías folk le han valido al músico Leonard Cohen (Montreal, 1934) el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras. Por sus canciones de marcado carácter literario, sí, pero también por su obra no
Work and the workplace
World-class performances by people who have day jobs
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2SedHd93DQ] They came to play, a film by Alex Rotaru (twitter @AlexRotaru) chronicles the 2007 edition of the competition, which is held in Texas and open to those 35 and older who do not play professionally. It has run on an irregular schedule
Duke Ellington
Happy birthday Duke Ellington!
I discovered the Duke listening to my parents' 78s when I was a kid. I have loved him ever since. Here are two of my favorite pieces: Take the A train and It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing). Enjoy! [youtube=
Words & Language
The west is yet to come: how cultures express time spatially
If you had four pictures of a person at different ages, how would you lay them out in chronological order? Almost every culture in the world uses space to think about time, but the visualizations vary widely. A paper in Psychological Science describes the first culture known to tie time’
Guantanamera
American consequentialist meets Cuban poet
I read the following from Dworkin and it reminded me of a poem from Martí. Part of the poem is better known as lyrics of the song "Guantanamera". Ronald Dworkin in Justice for Hedgehogs: “Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to
malinke
There is no movement without rhythm
Car, en effet, tout est rythme. Rhythm is in nature. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVPLIuBy9CY]
Ling- English
Any management equivalent to Truffaut and Godard?
A review of Two in the wave, a documentary on the friendship, collaboration and falling away of these two French filmmakers of the Nouvelle Vague makes me miss and look forward to more research on how managers who are successful (on their own and in their respective fields or industries)
Words & Language
An open mind - Quote of the day
Northrop Frye, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983, p. 44: [A]n open mind, to be sure, should be open at both ends, like the foodpipe, and have a capacity for excretion as well as intake. via Laudator Temporis Acti.
Dress for Success
On dressing for success
Dress for success? Sure - nothing wrong with making a good impression! Just remember that looking confident is not a substitute for being competent. You don’t want to be, as the saying goes, all hat and no cattle.