Triscribe

Don’t forget: Pearl Harbor Day, a day that has lived in infamy. I thought that the NY Times’ editorial about the need to remember Pearl Harbor expressed notable thoughts. Remembering it will be harder, when the first generation that was there is passing away. The passing of Harry Morgan, actor who was on “Dragnet,” and [...]

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) has come and gone.  As a follow up to a previous post on NaNoWriMo as I have been going through it: a recap! Yeah, I did it – I hit the 50k, ending the month at 55,364 words (well, according to the NaNoWriMo validator; I had bizarre footnotes that didn’t [...]

Some links. Don’t overeat, if you can. Be grateful for what we have. Keep hope for what we don’t have. Be well. Visual history of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade over at Time.com. Mark Bittman at the NY Times had some cool links for Thanksgiving Eve (although we can still chew them today). Time Out [...]

An interesting profile in the Washington Post on the activism of retired US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.  I agree with her that civics education in America needs help.  An educated populace is a populace far more able to vote. Civics education could have helped Rick Perry, as Jon Stewart amusingly presents the “oops” [...]

On this Veterans’ Day: A salute and thank you to past, present, and future Armed Services members. Take a moment to think about them and how we can all do better for/with them. Oh, and take a look at the video that FC posted from last year’s Veterans’ Day. JP Morgan Chase underwrote the Veterans’ [...]

Something to amuse us: From the 11/4/11 edition of “Mother Goose and Grimm” by Mike Peters: Mother Goose: “See, Grimm, that’s a cardinal, but not all cardinals are red. Some cardinals are yellow, and some are grey.” (she’s reading a book on birds, during the bird watching) Grimm, the dog (really bored): “Which is the [...]

I had some of my NaNoWriMo 2011 analyzed. Apparently: I write likeCory Doctorow I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing! Well, I never read Cory Doctorow, so…? Then, I had two paragraphs of one of my triscribe blog posts analyzed and I got this: I write likeJames Joyce I Write Like by [...]

Can’t believe that it’s November. I also can’t believe that baseball season is over (St. Louis Cardinals beat the Texas Rangers in the World Series, for those not in the know; fun fact: Cardinals’ now-retired manager Tony LaRussa is a lawyer – JD and apparently passed the Florida bar exam back in the day). Football [...]

Can’t believe it’s October.  Time flies… Google doodle: celebrating Art Clokey‘s 90th birthday with a little Gumby (and his pals, Pokey, Prickle, and Goo, plus those Blockheads… – plus, Gumby and Pokey now have an online home). Oh, and a little YouTube search pulled up the Gumby theme song (remastered!): Last but not least: from [...]

The passing of Derrick Bell, a pioneer of American legal academia.  See also: the obit on Bell from NPR. From Newsweek/Daily Beast: A fascinating look at Anita Hill since her testifying at confirmation hearings for US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. [cross-posted over at sswslitinmotion.tumblr.com)