Found Music – Mariano Mores

Tanguera for Orchestra.

Found Words – 1 Chronicles 17:16

Then King David went in and sat before the LORD, and he said: “Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far?

Found Words – Mike Morello

“Why are we always stuck with the words unspoken?”

Found Words – Volkswagon

Fun Theory.

Found Words – Coupling

“We’re lefties, we’re always goodies.”

The whole thing made me laugh.

//hat tip: instapundit

Found Words – Arnold

I think politicians think about doing this (PG-13) more often than they let on.

Found Words – David Knoke

One academic writing on why my life is miserable…er, where the literature on associations is:

Elements for a comprehensive theory of associations lie scattered across diverse disciplines, including sociology, political science, business, organizational analysis, social work, labor economics, recreation and leisure, and law.

Found Words – (anonymous)

“Just describe you as interesting? People describe their goldfish as interesting…”

Found Words – The History Boys

“Shall I tell you what is wrong with Hector as a teacher? It isn’t that he doesn’t produce results — he does — but they are unpredictable and unquantifiable. And in the current educational climate that is of no use. I mean, there is inspiration, certainly, but how do I quantify that?”

-The Headmaster

Written Words – (Genius/Idiot)

Just had an “I’m a genius, no, maybe I’m an idiot” moment.

My supervisor has been killing me trying to get me to find a “literature” that fits my research interests. I’ve been poking around, basically based on the protocol that if I use google scholar to search enough key words, eventually something will show up.

That was the plan until I got an unfinished bit of research from the University of New Orleans. In their bibliography (new definition of nerd is that I skip ahead to the bibliography — exciting!) there was a link to a 1961 article on organizational incentives. Oddly, the article was by a colleague of my favorite professor at Penn.

The article was perfect, except it was old. It dealt with typologizing organizations, characterizing their functions, it was the type of theory I could use to do my field work. I quickly flipped to the back to look for other sources.

Only problem? It was from 1961. So all the sources were ancient (sorry for all readers born before 1961 — that’s you mom).

So I was stuck. Until I came up with my best idea of the week (granted, it’s only Tuesday). I brought the article up on google scholar and clicked the “article citations” link.

There in front of me were 514 more recent articles that had cited my original work.

Genius, I thought.

Until I asked myself why it took me a year at Oxford to figure out how to use the article citations link.