Date: March 15, 2022
Categories: quotes
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.”–Heraclitus
Yerkes-Dodson
Date: February 20, 2022
Categories: general
The Yerkes–Dodson law is an empirical relationship between pressure and performance, originally developed by psychologists Robert M. Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson in 1908.[1] The law dictates that performance increases with physiological or mental arousal, but only up to a point. When levels of arousal become too high, performance decreases. The process is often illustrated … Read More
After Life, Joan Didion
Date: February 20, 2022
Categories: books
Philippe Ariès, in “The Hour of Our Death,” points out that the essential characteristic of death as it appears in the “Chanson de Roland” is that the death, even if sudden or accidental, “gives advance warning of its arrival.” Gawain is asked: “Ah, good my lord, think you then so soon to die?” Gawain answers: … Read More
The Headless Norseman
Date: October 29, 2021
Categories: recipes
1 ½ oz aquavit 6 oz hot apple cider drop of honey one twist of peppercorn Stir.
Vesper
Date: March 6, 2021
Categories: recipes
3 ounces gin (Gordon’s) 1 ounce vodka 1/2 ounce Lillet Blanc or dry vermouth Garnish: lemon peel prefer currently Nolet’s and Tito’s along with Lillet Blanc
Date: February 26, 2021
Categories: quotes
When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, “To know one’s self.” And what was easy, “To advise another.”
Date: February 26, 2021
Categories: quotes
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. George S. Patton
Date: February 25, 2021
Categories: quotes
I found out that with 150 well-chosen books a man possesses a complete analysis of all human knowledge, or at least all that is either useful or desirable to be acquainted with. –Abbé Faria, The Count of Monte Cristo.
Date: February 25, 2021
Categories: quotes
Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives. John Galsworthy
Treasures – The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho
Date: January 20, 2021
When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.