CIA-linked private military contractor Evergreen Defense & Security Services offered to post sentries at Oregon election offices on Tuesday, “detaining troublemakers” and making sure voters “do not get out of control.” Danger Room

Staying organized is important. My first few weeks, I found that I was forgetting things and now I have a serious filing system in real life and on my computer. I dedicate some time each day to making sure I am organized so I can find things I need the next day.

I have generally stopped procrastinating. As the king of procrastination in high school, this surprised me. The quicker I finish my homework, the quicker I can move on to fun things. One week, I locked myself in my room the whole week so I could get far enough ahead in my classes that I could go to Yosemite and not worry about working.

The workload doesn’t seem as big as it is. Sure, I will sometimes spend five hours a day on homework but that is what college is. Looking back, I will think, “Damn, I read 150 pages yesterday”, but I have not really minded it while I have been working.

YouTube - So You Want to Be a Detective (1948).

After a career in public service, I regretfully say, I would not do it again.

Philosophy and point of view led me to doing good instead of doing well, so I never expected to become rich. But now that I’m in my 10th year of a frozen judicial salary — less than summer students are being paid at law firms — I have concluded that whatever I may have accomplished for the public, I have wasted 25 years of my life by serving on the bench.

Can you tell I like the Coen Brothers? This is my favorite movie scene of all time.

Do any of you have Black lights? I need to borrow them for exhibition for a glowing bacteria project. Your Pink Floyd poster will be fine without it for a few days. Thanks!

Lately, I’ve gotten into the habit of taking screens of movies that i find particularly beautiful. Can any of my three readers figure out what movie these are from?

Starting to study philosophy is a lot like falling in love (which makes sense, given the literal meaning of the word, right?). When a person falls in love, it’s normal to be so enthralled with the beloved that nothing and no one else seems worth a thought. Every conversation eventually turns back toward the beloved. Time spent apart is considered wasted. Other, ordinary folk throw up their hands in exasperation — and the lover cares naught. (AskPhilosophers.org)

For tourists, it seems like the adventure of a lifetime — riding in a jeep through the snake-infested jungle to see the exotic “long-neck women” of the Kayan tribe. But now Zember has removed her coil — in protest of her captivity. She no longer wants to keep Thailand’s shameful secret: that the long-neck women are Burmese refugees who are being prevented by Thai authorities from taking up asylum overseas. As a lucrative tourist attraction, the women are forced to live in a virtual human zoo. (Marie Claire)