Levison is pretty well established at the fish processing job last we saw. He’s de facto the head of the crew because some of his roommates from earlier left and also probably due to the amount of time he’s been there. We can only hope that this doesn’t go to his head too much. Even the…
Drug deals, welders going insane and Levison almost leaving Tony before they even going to the pub? Sounds like it’s time for the next part of chapter four! Levison begins telling us about the sort of job Tony does. It’s a one-year contract and he’s making more money than God in Alaska because of the…
Nick’s Notes: Strap yourself in, folks! This chapter is the biggest chapter in the entire book at 60 pages and as such I’m going to try to split it up as event-based or as dramatically as I can…or every fourteen pages. Whatever works, really. So expect this part of the chapter reviews to be at least four parts. When…
Thanks to Ryan Calhoun for linking this about a week or two back and unintentionally helping me have another Lazy Post while I work on other projects!
Just a small post today saying that I found, through that Wikipedia article on Otium I recently linked, this interesting paper on how Shakespeare dealt with the theme of leisure and idleness. At only 14 pages it shouldn’t take too much effort to get through and it’s fairly well written and interesting. Especially if you’re interested in Aristotle,…
I didn’t know terribly much about this word or its history and even reading most or all of this Wikipedia entry I’m not sure how much I’m closer to getting much that is useful out of it. But it’s still pretty interesting how a words etymology and general meaning can shift with cultures and time. Here’s a few…
Levison has now gone from working in a restaurant to working on the road with a friend of his named Jim. Jim is a truck driver who goes all around the US moving furniture for other companies and needs Levison’s help because the people they usually get aren’t dependable. Five-hundred a week is enough to…
Nick’s Notes: And we’re back! We’ll be taking a look at chapter three in all (or part, depending on how lazy I am!) its glory! Levison starts the chapter off by summing up restaurants in a fairly intuitively convincing way. Mind you, I’ve never worked in a restaurant but this all sounds plausible to me:…
Nick’s Notes: You can find part one, here.) In my last entry I wrote about Vygotsky’s ideas about play in an imaginary situation. A key piece of his theory of play has to do with how rules and imagination help to form one another during games. In this entry I’ve written about where in typical development…
Nick’s Notes: So sorry for the lack of posts lately! I went to MICE this weekend and was swamped by that both nights to feel like adding more to the site. On the plus side we’ve got (more or less) a full week of posts that should go up this week if all goes well!…
I use “science” in quotation marks because I think most of us (especially followers of this site) will be familiar with this bit of “news” or just think it’s true on an intuitive basis. Regardless here’s the article I am referring to and a useful summary: After controlling for demographics and health behaviors, researchers found…
Apparently the professionals at New York Times didn’t catch up to this story (that I blogged about a little over a a month ago) until yesterday but there’s still some good tidbits from there you may have not gotten here (AKA, more formalized writing and some more background on this woman that I didn’t know/didn’t talk…
