English is an interesting language. Sometimes it can be totally irrational and sometimes it can be quite interesting. For example, I’ve noticed that there is obsessive use of the word up. Let me give you an illustration of the frequent use of the up word. There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Up, Up, and Away
Posted in English, tagged Communication, English, Expressions, languages, Linguistics, Up, Words on January 13, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Photograph of the Day: Train and Smoke
Posted in Photography, tagged Communications, Photographs, Railroad, Smoke, Steam Engines, Trains, Transportation on January 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Addictiveness, Cancer, Cigarettes, Jeffrey Wigan, Movies, Nicotine, Sixty Minutes, Smoking, Tobacco on January 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Not many people can hold on to the truth no matter the consequences. In our times, the truth is flexible; it sways with the direction and intensity of the wind. Fighting for the truth takes a special breed of people. Such is the exceptional case of Dr. Jeffrey Wigand. Because he stuck with the truth, [...]
Photograph of the Day: Winter Domes
Posted in Photography, tagged Architecture, Domes, Photographs, Snow, Structures, Winter on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Latest Status on Panama’s Subway
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Buses, Investments, Panama, Panama Canal, Public Transportation, Public Works, Subway on January 11, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Riding a bus is Panama City is getting so bad, it’s almost like playing Russian roulette. That’s why they are called “Diablos Rojos” (Red Devils). Only yesterday morning, a young man only 21 years old, while racing with another bus, lost control of his bus and turned over. At the time he was carrying 70 [...]
Joke: Singing Like a Canary
Posted in Jokes, tagged Birds, Canary, Humor, Parakeets, PetStores on January 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A fellow walks into a pet store and asks to buy a canary. The proprietor replies, “I’m fresh out, but I do have a parakeet.” The customer insists on a canary, until the shop owner informs him that a parakeet can be made to sound like a canary if one files the beak just so. [...]
Photograph of the Day: Snowscape
Posted in Photography, tagged Cold, Nature, Photograph, Seasons, Snow, Winter on January 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Reaching Out Towards the Sky
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Architecture, Buildings, Burj Khalifa, Dubai, Middle East, Recession, Structures, Unemployment on January 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In the middle of a global recession, the city-state of Dubai has decided to go ahead and inaugurate the tallest building on the surface of planet Earth. I’m referring to the Burj Dubai also known as the Burj Khalifa. Dubai opened the world’s tallest skyscraper Monday in a blaze of fireworks, then added a final [...]
Photograph of the Day: Frost
Posted in Photography, tagged Ice, Landscape, Nature, Photographs, Seasons, Snow, Winter on January 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A Quote to Remember
Posted in Quotes, tagged Literature, Philosophy, Quotes, Redeemers, Resources, Thoreau, Wisdom on January 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed and drawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,—those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.” – Henry David Thoreau Blogged with the Flock Browser
