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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Random Food Recommendation: Lundberg Rice
Lundberg.com Lundberg Rice is sold at the 2J’s store in Great Falls. It is really really good and I would recommend it to anyone who likes rice. I’ve cooked the regular Basmati and Jasmine brown rice for various dishes a … Continue reading
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Quote & Thought of the Day, 2010/10/31
“If we don’t change we’ll fail, and I don’t want to be part of that failure.” – Dave Bing; mayor of Detroit, Illinois; quoted in the November 8 2010 issue of Forbes(1) Admitting that how you (and everyone else) … Continue reading
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Quote & Thought for the day, 2010/10/21
“It was the compounds that produced the sort of avant-gardism that makes up so much of the history of twentieth-century art. The compounds — whether the Cubists, Fauvists, Futurists, or Secessionists — had a natural tendency to be esoteric, to … Continue reading
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Quote & Thought of the Day, 2010/10/18
[Quote remembered, hopefully not butchered too much.] “The real estate agent told us there were multiple buyers looking at this home, so if we wanted to get the house we needed to make an offer as-is with no pre-sale conditions … Continue reading
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Quote & Thought of the Day, 2010/10/15
“Financial markets are a collection of arguments. The less transparent the market and the more complicated the securities, the more money the trading desks at big Wall Street firms can make from the argument. The constant argument over the value … Continue reading
Thought & Quote of the Day, 2010/10/14
‘Leadership should be about “convening,” he says, “not command and control.” Convening? This came as a surprise to Harper, most Canadians and the dictionary people, all of whom have laboured under the apparent misconception that leadership is about, you know, … Continue reading
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Thought & Quote of the day, 2010/10/13
“There are four types of commander. Brilliant and energetic; brilliant and lazy; stupid and lazy; and stupid and energetic. With the first three, you can do something. With the last, nothing but disaster can result.” – Commander Raj Whitehall, appearing … Continue reading
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Quote & Thought of the Day, 2010/10/22
“When a politician declares himself to be free of ideology, he does not merely mean he is not dogmatic. He means to free himself from any principled tethering whatever. He means to convert what would normally be seen as evidence … Continue reading →