Morrissey Setlist at Majestic Theatre, San Antonio, TX, USA on November 14, 2011

Morrissey Setlist at Majestic Theatre, San Antonio, TX, USA on November 14, 2011

1. I Want The One I Can't Have (The Smiths song)
2. First Of The Gang To Die
3. You Have Killed Me
4. You're The One For Me, Fatty
5. Speedway
6. Ouija Board, Ouija Board
7. Scandinavia
8. Maladjusted
9. I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris
10. People Are The Same Everywhere
11. Alma Matters
12. All The Lazy Dykes
13. I Know It's Over (The Smiths song)
14. Everyday Is Like Sunday
15. One Day Goodbye Will Be Farewell
16. Meat Is Murder (The Smiths song)
17. Irish Blood, English Heart
18. Still Ill (The Smiths song)

The Five Values of Reading the Great Classics

The Five Values of Reading the Great Classics
The five takeaways from reading the classics, as Brenzel lists them, are as follows:

1. The Value of Forgotten Ideas
Some old ideas are not actually outdated, but are, in fact, waiting to be rediscovered and given new applications.

2. The Value of Connecting Ideas
"What is the best sort of life for a human being?" Brenzel says you will ask yourself this question again and again as you decide on your career, where you want to live, who you will marry and how you will raise your own children. Making connections between ideas will give you "a measure of how far we’ve come on some problems and what problems seem to have heavily resisted the attempts of human beings to give them answers." These are questions that Brenzel says address "the permanent aspects of the human condition."

3. The Value of Strangeness
Brenzel argues that learning different perspectives from your own is "a primary source of human creativity."

4. The Value of Building Intellectual Muscle
"If you’re going to be a better wrestler, Brenzel argues, "you’re going to have to get your own nose bloody by going up against people who are bigger and stronger and better than you are."

5. The Value of Better Judgment
Forming better judgments will help you making more discerning choices in life. "Once you’ve encountered and wrestled with the greatest minds of all time," Brenzel argues, "you’re going to be in a much better position yourself to tell the trash from the gold and to pick out what is worthwhile for your time" and what you can safely discard.

Shawn Achor, fellow Texan, discusses The Happiness Advantage ...

An Irishman's view of the Wall Street Shenanigans

Steve Jobs’s Biographer on “60 Minutes”

60 Minutes has posted its two-part interview with Walter Isaacson, the authorized biographer of Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs, which aired at 7 p.m.October 23, 2011.

http://mashable.com/2011/10/23/steve-jobs-walter-isaacson-60-minutes-video/

Why I Dumped My iPhone—And I'm Not Going Back

This guy, Sam Graham-Felsen, wrote the enclosed article about why he dumped his iPhone. http://www.good.is/post/why-i-dumped-my-iphone-and-why-i-m-not-going-back/

The following is my immediate response upon reading said article:

Wow, Forget this guy. Walden's Pond? I'd like to throw him in Walden's pond.

This guy should have read Socrates' quote "everything in moderation." That was the philosophy I took when I realized I was staying home to watch TV on my DVR instead of going out with friends because I had recorded too many shows. I put myself on a TV diet where I just narrowed down the amount of TV I was watching. Case Closed. I didn't become one of these jerks that goes around saying the TV is bad for you or that TV is evil.

I don't even understand the point of his article. Was it just his chance to tell everybody how much of an idiot he is?

Plus I hate all this anti-technology crap. I'm a big fan of the idea of the singularity and one thing that's been ingrained in my head from reading about the singularity is that everything around us is technology so the whole "less" technology stuff is such crap. On a related note, I always love the realization I come to when I watch a period piece movie where they show some medieval king living in a castle with servants (like the recent movie Your Highness). I always remind myself that I'm living a more luxurious life that this king just because I have air conditioning, access to refrigerated food and a motorized vehicle. So forget people who can't handle technology.

"had it made my life better?" Hell Yeah the iPhone has made my life better. This sort of reminds me of this Sam Kinison joke about Charles Manson where he yells, like Sam yells, "GLAD TO SEE YOU CAN HANDLE YOUR HIGH" in response to learning Manson just killed an entire family while on drugs. So I guess this guy just couldn't handle the power of having access to the whole wide world in his hands.

There was a similar article Technology Is The New Smoking which made the point that "checking facebook" has become an addiction similar to smoking and that abstaining from technology can sometimes feel that “itching like a crackhead” http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/25/technology-is-the-new-smoking/

Movies of 2011

Here's a list of the movies I've seen in 2011.

http://www.movieweb.com/releases/year/movies

Limitless
March 19, 2011
Rent It

The Adjustment Bureau
March 9, 2011
Rent It

Unknown
March 3, 2011
Rent It

Hall Pass
March 2, 2011
See It

Just Go with It
February 19th, 2011
Rent It

I Am Number 4
February 18th, 2011
Skip It

The Mechanic
February 12th, 2011
See It

The Eagle
February 11th, 2011
See It

Blue Valentine
February 10th, 2011
See It

The King's Speech
February 8th, 2011
See It

The Green Hornet
January 14th, 2011
Rent It