Found Words – Michael Wilbon

Very, very, interesting column on the difference between how people, specifically Tiger Woods and Jim Brown, approach creating social change, or more importantly, social progress:

“Everybody’s method and manner of being socially active is different.”

Found Words – George Burns

Allegedly:

“I thought the metric system was a way to beat the horses.”

Found Words – JM

Email of the day:

“I’m actually not sure if what I’m currently experiencing can be described as life?  I’ve just woken up, again, after a second nap.  I woke up from (name)’s at noon, clutching the Guitar Hero guitar like a lover and absolutely covered in cards of some sort.  I then proceeded to make my way to the bathroom … only to find (name) asleep on the bathroom floor.”

Found Words – Tom Parker

From Rules of Thumb — via Nudge:

“No more than 25 percent of the guests at a university dinner party can come from the economics department without spoiling the conversation.”

Found Words – Wicked

New work music. Wicked.

“Many years I have waited 
For a gift like yours to appear”

 - The Wizard and I

Found Words – Mark Twain

Life on the Mississippi —

“Ten thousand River Commissions, with the mines of the world at their back, cannot tame that lawless stream, cannot curb or confine it, cannot say to it, Go here, or Go there, and make it obey; cannot save a shore which it has sentenced; cannot bar its path with an obstruction which it will not tear down, dance over, and laugh at. But a discreet man will not put these things into spoken words; for the West Point engineers have not their superiors anywhere; they know all there is to know of their abstruse science; and so, since they conceive that they can fetter and handcuff that river and boss him, it is but wisdom for the unscientific man to keep still, lie low, and wait until they do it. Captain Eads, with his jetties, has done a work at the mouth of the Mississippi which seemed clearly impossible; so we do feel full confidence now to prophesy against like impossibilities. Otherwise one would pipe out and say the Commission might as well bully the comets in their courses and undertake to make them behave, as try to bully the Mississippi into right and reasonable conduct”

Found Words – Roger Ebert

This concept has always been a little unclear to me:

“Some stereotyping still takes place,” Ebert said. “In films aimed at black consumers, such as Tyler Perry’s ‘Madea,’ it’s in the nature of an inside joke. When outsiders do it, it loses its humor and is simply offensive.”

Found Words – Monica Davey

NY Times on a strong lady in a tough spot:

“Mrs. Sanford attended a private, Catholic all-girls school in Lake Forest, Ill. At Georgetown University, where she graduated magna cum laude in 1984 with a finance degree, she was viewed as whip smart and a hard worker. A fellow student recalled her entering an accounting exam she had not prepared well for. The test was not timed, though, so Mrs. Sanford arrived with a six-pack of Tab and worked for eight hours on it. As the classmate recalls it, her grade was among the highest that day.”

Found Words – EO

Nuffield email of the day:

Dear All,

I was curious whether one of you has Nuffield Library’s copy of the Rule of the Many by Thomas Christiano. Apparently it was checked out to me but I cannot find it.

Best,
EO 

Found Words – JM

My boy:

“You’re more than just the guy who gets me shots, though that is, admittedly, your primary significance.”