Archive for February 2009
Love and Marriage: What’s the Difference?
Posted by: usmanahmad on: February 2, 2009
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A student asks a teacher, "What is love?"The teacher said, "in order to answer your question, go to the wheat field and choose the biggest wheat and come back. But the rule is: you can go through them only once and cannot turn back o pick." [...]
Warren Buffet’s Advice for 2009
Posted by: usmanahmad on: February 2, 2009
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I invite you to tap into the financial wisdom of our elders along with me, and become financially wiser.
Hard work: All hard work brings profit; but mere talk leads only to poverty.
Laziness: Sleeping lobster is carried away by the water current.
Earnings: Never depend on a single source of income.
Spending: If you buy things you don’t [...]
Readings
- Omni Daily News November 16, 2009"Besides Coca-Cola, the other thing that is universally known is cowboys and Indians." The Wall Street Journal interviews Cormac McCarthy and John Hillcoat, director of McCarthy's The Road, releasing later this month. [via Vulture, and, erm, Omni Daily News. My bad.]Unlike: The New Oxford American Dictionary has picked their newest word of the […]Amazon.com Bookstore
- More on Donald Harington, from Toby Press November 16, 2009 Amazon.com Bookstore
- End-o'-the-Week Kid-Lit Roundup November 16, 2009Quick links from around the kid-lit blogosphere: "Andy Warhol, Children’s Illustrator." Educating Alice makes quite the auction find, some Andy Warhol children's book illustrations(!): Neil Gaiman interview. The author of Odd and the Frost Giants talks to School Library Journal. This being Gaiman, it's great. (E.g.: "If you wri […]Amazon.com Bookstore
- More Best Books: The Atlantic's History-Heavy Top 25 November 14, 2009I haven't been doing as good a job as Largehearted Boy in tracking all the Best Books of 2009 lists that are coming out (although it's true that about half of his links at this early stage are to our own voluminous offerings), but I wanted to note one more list I ran across: The Atlantic's top 25 books of the year, which is, really, literary e […]Amazon.com Bookstore
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