Press Release

I'm considering to "declassify" my blog. Right now I don't believe anyone reads it, and the reason simply is that I don't tell people I have a blog. And if, on rare occasion I admit to keeping a blog, I refuse to disclose its location. So right now I write to an audience that does not exist; but for me thats best. Now that I worry somebody might find it, I've found myself going back over everything to "tidy up." Its still a little bit incriminating, but it could be much worse. Yet, I would really only find value in this outlet if I could write freely and without restraint. Not having to worry about or cater to a specific audience. Thats the beauty, to me, of an "underground blog."

This blog has always been for me. I read the post, and I enjoy them. I enjoy writing that takes me back to another time. The memories attached to these posts are invaluably rich, and not worth compromising for the sake of a third-party.

Okay, Its 2:30 and I'm finally starting to get tired...

Eppur si muove

The other day I discovered The Post Secret Blog

A few of my favorite lines; "You're my happy ending," and "I know we can fix this." So yea, thats sweet. I'm still not sure how I feel about reading other people's secrets, but I like it.

I'm considering to write something academic. Okay, that was a joke. But really, I want to write! Maybe reading Reed's research has given me the itch.

Nostalgia rolls on...

Time & Relativity

"This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the sea is flat again."

-John Maynard Keynes

Another Post

“When my life is through,

And the angels ask me to recall

The thrill of them all,

I shall tell them I remember you.”

Ernst Haas Quotes

• I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.
• There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
• With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.
• My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.
• Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see
• A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?
  

Nearsighted Ambitions

As the week comes to a close, so does my toil. This week brought a workload of unprecedented measure, and left me with little time to worry over those triffling things. My camera is back from repair, and though disappointed at not having received an updated model, you can't beat having a camera repaired for free.

This summer my ambitions;

1. start a company
2. become the CEO of that company
3. become financially independent
4. photograph, publish, dectorate
5. pay some bills
6. annihilate diplomacy
7. dabble in Lightman
8. beat Phil, in everything
9. save the world
10. learn russian

mutatis mutandis

A direct translation from Latin of mutatis mutandis would read, 'with those things having been changed which need to be changed'. More colloquially, it can be interpreted as 'the necessary changes having been made,' where "the necessary changes" are usually implied by a prior statement assumed to be understood by the reader. It carries the connotation that the reader should pay attention to the corresponding differences between the current statement and a previous one, although they are analogous. This term is used frequently in economics and in law, to parameterize a statement with a new term, or note the application of an implied, mutually understood set of changes. The phrase is also used in the study of counter-factuals, wherein the requisite change in the factual basis of the past is made and the resulting causalities are followed.

Addendum: Oct. 14, 2007. How and why do I know this? Or care to know? Well, grasshopper, as we learn in international law, this is a legal reasoning that would allow for a treaty to be broken. Though, to be realistic, breaking "international law" (geneva accords, multilateral treaties, etc) requires no "legal rational." A country does what it wills and and obeys the treaties it subscribes to only if they are in the best interest of the country. Usually they are because the consequences of breaking international law spread beyond just the immediate consequences, (notably, they destroy the integrity of your word).

As British Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston (whom i mistakenly have referred to as Pemberton, for some reason) effectively said, England "has no permanent friends; she has only permanent interests."

Just Something I Like

Warren Harding’s speeches were once described as “an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.”

Ice Cream of the Month

Underground Blogger

I'm feeling better today; refreshed after a good night in my own bed. And then for lunch I met Brad at Little Italy. After eating pizza in Manhattan the other day, I thought my appetite for pepporoni would have deteriorated. But it didn't, that slice was as good as ever.

Speaking of New York City...