Online check-in is a process which should genuinely increase the efficiency of the airport experience, thereby costing you less time. But what the airlines do is employ so few people to supervise the bag drop-off that there’s no time-saving at all for the customer. Because airlines have to employ more people to supervise the non-online-checked-in …
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Bart Centre, a retired gentleman in New Hampshire, started a service for Rapture Ready people with pets called Eternal-Earthbound-Pets.com . For $135 he would look after pets stranded when their owners are whisked up to heaven to sit on the right hand of Jesus. Unfortunately, Bart ran foul of the local Insurance Department, who wanted …
If you are at all curious about Epicurus, Lucretius, or even philosophy in general, then I strongly recommend that you should read “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern” by Professor Greenblatt of Harvard University. It is not long, not a philosophy lecture, and is very well written and very interesting historically. Professor Greenblatt is …
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Small excerpt from words of Dvorak’s “Stabat Mater” (truly wonderful music!), written by a 13th Century monk: Fac me plagis vulnerari, Cruce hac inebriari ob amorem Filii. To translate for the non-Latinists: Let me be wounded with his wounds, Let me be inebriated by the cross and your Son’s blood. The whole work is along …
Although branded an atheist by the usual suspects, Epicurus did believe in the gods. However, he also believed that they ignored the doings of mankind. They sat there on Mount Olympus squabbling among themselves or seducing one another (whatever). and thought men on earth not worth their consideration. Good plan. It would have been …
