Thursday, 27 August 2020

You cannot learn from snow: you learn from walking in other men's footsteps in the snow.

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  Alec:   Why is handwriting such an important skill to you? Isn't handwriting almost obsolete? Eisel Mazard:   Is it better by means of...
Wednesday, 26 August 2020

Chinese handwriting practice, and ETYMOLOGY practice, I suppose.

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Monday, 24 August 2020

A brief Q&A on my (stated) alienation from Canadian culture.

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[ Question from a viewer:] Why do you feel more connected to a poverty-stricken country like Cambodia, rather than your birthplace, Canada, ...
Sunday, 16 August 2020

Love is a way of living with other people, not a way of living FOR other people.

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This is the denouement to my old video (that I can't believe anyone finds controversial… it's only two minutes long!), " When y...

Books I'm reading, and books I'm NOT reading…

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A peculiar snapshot: I have very little time to read (in English)… and the tension of feeling that I ought to be studying Chinese (if not Fr...
Tuesday, 4 August 2020

Censorship for reasons blatantly untrue has become part of the drumbeat of daily life.

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The Point of a University Education (vs. "The Vegan View")

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Sunday, 19 July 2020

Where there's a desk and a desk-lamp…

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Yeah, BTW: I quit Twitter.  Forever.  Ages ago.
Saturday, 11 April 2020

à-bas-le-ciel responds to his harshest critics (re: the "raw" policy statement).

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[This is directly following up on the discussion already posted to this same blog as two immediately-prior text postings.] Zdan ~   8:08...

If you live by your philosophy for five years, what's the outcome? And if you live by mine… ?

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samtc ~  3:01 PM Great vids :thumbsup::thumbsup: Tobin ~  3:03 PM i agree practical philosophy always appreciated. samtc ~  3:08 PM I...