I’m pretty well settled into my new house – have mowed the yard a couple of times and pulled a lot of weeds after the recent rainstorm – and now I’m just waiting to get the internet modem hooked up! In the meantime, I spend a lot of time at the library and actually get my browser cleared of the following tabs….
Top 10 reasons I’m actually a man – from a woman, of course. Hilarious.
*6.5 SMALL TALK. WHAT EVEN IS THAT. DON’T WE ALL ALREADY KNOW WHAT THE WEATHER IS LIKE (WE LITERALLY JUST WALKED IN OUT OF IT) & IF I REALLY WANTED TO KNOW WHAT BRAND OF MASCARA YOU WERE WEARING – IF, GOD FORBID, I COULD DISTINGUISH THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MASCARA BRANDS – DON’T YOU THINK I WOULD ASK YOU. Somehow though, as much as women can generally small-talk me under the table and I abhor it (I tend to take it as a sign that you don’t actually want to know me), I have to believe that a skill that inane must be a societal construct and hardly something I can blame on any particular gender. However! We are talking about why my interests mandate my being a man and so therefore: NO SMALL TALK = INHERENTLY MALE.
Everyone’s favorite Avengers scene. With the hilarious addendum, and in comic form.
What if evangelicalism succumbed to celebrityism? Oh wait. It’s happening.
Proof that Doctor Who is based on actual events. In visual form, of course.
Joe Carter, a Christian writer whose blogging I’ve appreciated in the past, asks is the news making us dumb?
Most of us realize that the events of last week's news cycle—just like the previous 51 other news cycles this year—will probably not have a significant effect on how we live. Indeed, if we're being honest with ourselves, most of us would have to admit that what is sold as news—on newspaper pages, the Internet, or cable news programs—is rarely newsworthy at all.
It’s billed as “news” and its context’s importance reduced in order to sell, Carter argues. If the importance of the larger context were properly understood, he adds, then the daily news items wouldn’t be near so marketable. I counter that it’s precisely the daily news items that make up the larger context which is far more valuable – at least at the level of local news. The work necessary to understand the larger context and its importance is precisely keeping up with the news.
Another Christian blog addresses the introverted evangelist.
Why are so many adults adopted in Japan? It’s part culture, part economics.
Although Japan’s post-war code no longer upholds primogeniture, business families find the habit hard to kick. The country's declining birth rate has further limited the likelihood of a male heir for many of them, who often select sons from among their most promising top managers. Toyota and Suzuki, both carmakers, Canon, an electronics firm, and Kajima, a construction company, have all adopted sons to manage them. Incentives are high for prospective adoptees, too. Their parents sometimes receive gifts of many million yen. To be selected as a mukoyoshi is to be awarded a high executive honour. This prompts fierce competition among managers, which means that the business has access to as good a talent pool as non-family companies.
And the Evangelical Outpost echoes my own thoughts on why writing by hand is worth it. I’d love to have an easily searchable journal, sure, but I can’t imagine switching to journaling on computer… It’s so not the same. You don’t have the drawings and the changes in handwriting to observe as you peruse old journals!
What if we dressed classical sculptures in hipster clothes? This! (via a FB group)
No video today. Just trying to clear out my browser.
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