Life
is a tale told by an idiot --
full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
(William
Shakespeare)
31.10.15
29.10.15
28.10.15
Inspired by the Button Tower of the cathedral at Rouen, France,
the Tribune Tower
exemplifies the way American architects have elevated office buildings to sacred status.
Newspaper publisher Colonel Robert R. McCormick held a $50,000.00 international competition to design, "the most beautiful and eye-catching office building in the world." In some estimations, it succeeded. The tower has all of the traditional elements of a skyscraper plus heritage expressed in flying buttresses, spires, grotesques, and more. The base of the Tribune Tower contains 120 stones from important locations all around the world, including the Parthenon, in Greece; the pyramids, in Egypt; the Taj Mahal, in India; the Alamo, in San Antonio; the Great Wall of China; and Injun Joe Cave in Missouri.
10 to Zen
1.Let go of comparing2.Let go of competing
3.Let go of judgments
4.Let go of anger
5.Let go of regrets
6.Let go of worrying
7.Let go of blase
8.Let go of guilt
9.Let go of fear.
10.Have a proper belly laugh at least once a day (especially if it's about your inability to let go of any or all of the above)
The Washington Monument was disintegrating - Why ?
Why? To clean pigeon poop
Why so many pigeons? They eat spiders and there are a lot of spiders at monument
Why so many spiders? They eat gnats and lots of gnats at monument
Why so many gnats? They are attracted to the light at dusk.
Solution: Turn on the lights at a later time.
27.10.15
In linguistics, the Gunning fog index measures the readability of English writing. The index estimates the years of formal education needed to understand the text on a first reading. A fog index of 12 requires the reading level of a U.S. high school senior (around 18 years old). The test was developed by Robert Gunning, an American businessman, in 1952.[1]
The fog index is commonly used to confirm that text can be read easily by the intended audience. Texts for a wide audience generally need a fog index less than 12. Texts requiring near-universal understanding generally need an index less than 8.
And a simple index value with an extract of "I have a dream by Martin Luther King"
Do you know that the term triage may have originated during the Napoleonic Wars from the work of Dominique Jean Larrey. Those responsible for the removal of the wounded from a battlefield or their care afterwards would divide the victims into three categories:
- Those who are likely to live, regardless of what care they receive;
- Those who are likely to die, regardless of what care they receive;
- Those for whom immediate care might make a positive difference in outcome
At Waterloo in 1815 the courage of Dominique Jean Larrey under fire was noticed by the Duke of Wellington who ordered his soldiers not to fire in his direction so as to “give the brave man time to gather up the wounded” and saluted “the courage and devotion of an age that is no longer ours”. Larrey was taken prisoner by the Prussians and condemned to death. However, he was recognized by one of the German surgeons, who pleaded for his life. Perhaps partly because he had saved the life of Blücher's son when he was wounded and taken prisoner by the French, he was pardoned, invited to Blücher's dinner table as a guest and taken back to France under escort. He devoted the remainder of his life to writing and a civilian medical career.
25.10.15
24.10.15
Tout homme est tiraillé entre deux besoins,
le besoin de la Pirogue (c'est-à-dire du Voyage, de l'arrachement à soi-même),
et le besoin de l'Arbre (c'est-à-dire de l'enracinement, de l'identité),
et les hommes errent constamment entre ces deux besoins
en cédant tantôt à l'un, tantôt à l'autre;
jusqu'au jour où ils comprennent que c'est avec l'Arbre qu'on fabrique la Pirogue.
(Mythe mélanésien de l'Ile de Vanuatu)
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