Wednesday, August 23, 2000
A blogger recounts flashes of his own mugging (Metascene blog)
"It's weird, cause I never really thought I was in danger of getting killed." This is surreal to BoyCaught: the author seems to be a spectator at the same time that he's being victimized. Crazy world, we live in ... (Read the August 20 post.) (Posted by BoyCaught)Lawsuits Threaten to Drain the Life Out of Hate Groups (LA Times)
"They were yelling, 'Don't mess with the Aryans,' Keenan said. She begged them to take her, not her son. The men seemed to have second thoughts. 'Because you're white,' one of the men told her, 'we're going to let you live today.'" BoyCaught has the obvious rhetorical question: so, what if they weren't white? (Posted by BoyCaught)Three Books for Life?
"You are about to be put into a time machine and sent back 1,100 years, never to return. You must make your way in a hostile, alien environment, armed only with your wits and three books. You can choose any books you like -- as long as you've actually read them sometime in the last five years. What three books do you take?"-- from intro to Time Warped, on CIO.com
(BoyCaught liked the question more than the article, which was about time management for IT professionals.) If it happened today, his three books would be:
- The Art of Worldly Wisdom
by Baltasar Gracian- Collected Stories
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez- The Isis Papers
by Frances Cress Welsing
BTW, ISBN.nu, is a great service for finding book prices on the web. (Posted by BoyCaught)
