| Champlain's DreamI am really enjoying this bio of Champlain, amidst thoughts on the value of being a generalist (brought up once more in my mind by Dr. Crutchfield: link). Champlain was an ultimate example of this. I'm impressed. Despite the fact he was a Frenchman. ;) I can imagine little more soul-crushing than deep and lifelong specialization.
As they put it back then in langue xaintongeaise, "Qui va chap'tit, va loin..."
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| A week in FloridaSo since I moved to Florida, things have been eventful:
Police helicopter hovering over our house.
Saw a planetarium show, went behind an IMAX dome and into the projector room.
Ate everything from farmer's market salads to Stephen Colbert's Americone Dream.
Attended service at a Protestant cathedral.
Played soccer with a random group of MKs I came across.
Replaced my own distributor cap & rotor.
Reconstituted my computer& iTunes from scratch.
Caught up on work.
Stayed up too late on a Friday night...
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| Disenthrall"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise, with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation..."
-Abraham Lincoln, December 1862
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