http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ pardon me, but there's a bear in your hot tub. en-us bkootsey@gmail.com 2008-08-19T22:59:27-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000074.php Orientation, day two: More welcomes, introduction to the library and library resources, basic introduction to school's email system. No explanation as of yet as to why email from outside takes 9+ hours to arrive. General IT introduction, and usual Mac... 74@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ 2008-08-19T22:59:27-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000073.php Orientation, day one: Welcomes from the Big Cheeses (Dean, President, Rector of Board of Visitors, President of Alumni Association). Community service and outreach (fundamental to the philosophy of the school, the only grass-roots-organized medical school in the nation). The honor... 73@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ school 2008-08-18T19:03:30-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000072.php In 1986, I was a senior at a parochial boarding high school in Virgina. A couple of years earlier, a Boston school in the same system had closed and a number of its students from around New England had come... 72@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ 2008-06-18T21:53:18-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000071.php "I don't think society's going to disintegrate. It's gonna smell funny for a while, but it's not going to disintegrate." Frank Zappa, in a 1968 WFMT Radio Chicago interview with Studs Terkel... 71@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ 2008-04-29T15:32:25-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000070.php David Hockney on Pictures and Power, via Andrew Sullivan: We do not have debates about images. The world of art is separate from the world of images, but the power is with images, not art. An obvious problem is... 70@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ 2008-03-29T10:33:22-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000069.php From Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind, pp. 1-12, by Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth, excerpted by Fresh Air: Any way you look at it, most of the problems facing baboons can be expressed in two... 69@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ 2007-12-11T17:21:03-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000068.php This can be considered a literary blog only in the way the proverbial infinite number of monkeys with typewriters can be considered a literary endeavor, so we'll be the first to admit we're not intimately familiar with the works... 68@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ Words 2007-11-23T20:47:08-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000067.php 67@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ 2007-09-27T12:04:15-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000066.php From the September 25, 2007 Guardian: "Orangutan rips off tourist's trousers:" An orangutan who objected to having its photograph taken by a French tourist snatched her backpack before ripping off her trousers. The woman, known only as Odile, was... 66@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ 2007-09-25T19:10:12-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000065.php From the PBS/American Experience documentary Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, forty-some years before Craigslist: June Cordell, Relative of Peoples Temple Member: "The first time I met Jim Jones was Easter 1953. My mother-in-law, Edith Cordell, had a... 65@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ 2007-08-16T22:53:39-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000064.php On July 26, the Wall Street Journal's Health Blog published "Final Exit, Pursued by a Cat," reporting on a short article in the New England Journal of Medicine: So there’s this cat that lives in a nursing home in Providence,... 64@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ 2007-07-27T08:38:09-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000063.php From Ryszard Kapuscinski, "When There Is Talk Of 1945," Granta 88, p. 255, translated from the Polish by Klara Glowczewska: We who went through the war know how difficult it is to convey the truth about it to those for... 63@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ 2007-01-27T20:08:45-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000062.php From C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves, p. 22-23: I turn now to the love of one's country. Here there is no need to labour M. de Rougemont's maxim; we all know now that this love becomes a demon when it... 62@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ 2007-01-15T23:35:12-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000061.php From the AP via the Seattle Times: "Idaho Zamboni drivers fired for midnight trip to drive-thru:" BOISE, Idaho—Two employees of the city's ice skating rink have been fired for making a midnight fast-food run in a pair of Zambonis. An... 61@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ 2006-11-24T10:30:22-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000060.php From "Wading Toward Home," by Michael Lewis in the 10/09/05 NYT Sunday Magazine, already not to be missed for the story of Haywood Hillyer and the cats, comes this: On St. Claude Avenue, just below the French Quarter, there... 60@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ 2005-10-10T11:20:48-05:00