Author: seanv2
-
New Boston Qualifying Times
Well, crap. Qualifying for Boston just got even harder. For someone of my age and gender, it is now going to take a 3:10 to qualify. While I think this is probably the fairest way to deal with demand for the race, for me personally it puts the possibility of ever getting there even farther…
-
One less question on the Voynich Manuscript
There was big news this week in the land of Voynich Manuscript hobbyist. The book is apparently quite old. A book of illustrations and writings composed in a language no one can understand, the Voynich Manuscript (VM) has had a cult following in certain obscure corners of the bibliophilic world for sometime. This week, researchers…
-
One Less Question on the Voynich Manuscripts
There was big news this week in the land of Voynich Manuscript hobbyist. The book is apparently quite old. A book of illustrations and writings composed in a language no one can understand, the Voynich Manuscript (VM) has had a cult following in certain obscure corners of the bibliophilic world for sometime. This week, researchers…
-
Training Totals Week Ending 2.13.2011
RECAP: Well, things are getting better. Not as quickly as I’d like, but they are getting better. The foot is still hurting, though the pain is more intermittent. I’m trying to institute a regular regime of stretching, massaging and icing and I hope that works. I have my first race of 2011 this weekend, the…
-
Review: Epictetus
Discourses and Selected Writings Epictetus (trans. Robert Dobbin) (Penguin) Epictetus. Freed slave, logician, and stoic, is one of the many classical writers more often referenced than read. Epictetus’s name is bandied frequently when the subject of stoicism comes up. His writings were extremely influential on Marcus Aurealius (some of the writing attributed to Epictetus exists…
-
Acquisitions Week of 2/13/2011
V. Charm is adding to his holding a lot faster than I am. My only acquisition this week is: Israel Drazin, Maimonides: Reason Above All, Geffen, New York (2010) Received as a review copy from the publisher. – Seanv2
-
Acquisitions, week of 2/7
I was belatedly celebrating some overtime this week, but that’s still no excuse. The piles of unread books lining my garret climb ever higher. Still, here are the books I acquired this week. W. Branch Johnson, Folktales of Normandy. The Whitefriars Press, London (1929). I got this at a used bookstore in the college town…
-
An apt thought for today
But Mahmoud’s old doubts came back in the evening. He and his brother were walking along streets that grew more and more empty, past faces deprived of any vitality. Exhausted pedestrians were trudging home or standing silently at bus stops. Some men were sitting against a wall, dozing, their faces on their knees. Mahmoud pointed…
-
Sargent Shriver, gangland financier
The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of an American Gang, Natalie Y. Moore and Lance Williams (Lawrence Hill Books, 2011). Some of the most eye-opening passages of this informative, worthwhile history of a notorious Chicago street gang come in the form of the context of the times in which the…
-
Training Totals 2.6.2011
RECAP: Last week was another week in crap city. Whatever, it’s behind me and winter is half over. I had a halfway decent run on Thursday, but besides that, it just sucked. The ankle/PF was killing me, and the roads were awful, so I decided to take the rest of the week off. Monday however…
Milo and the Calf 