• L'Etranger, Camus
• More Wealth Without Risk, Charles J Givens
• Financial Self-Defense, Charles J Givens
• Se Una Notte D'Inverno Un Viaggiatore, Italo Calvino
• The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith
• The Borrowers, Mary Norton
• Watership Down, Richard Adams

• Nikola Tesla
• Bertrand Russell
• Julia Child
• Edward Gorey
• Fred Rogers
• Zhuangzi
• Akira Yoshizawa
• Thich Nhat Hanh
• Mr. Rogers

• "I do not take drugs. I am drugs." -Salvador Dali
• "It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others." — Unknown
• “To be courageous is enviable, whilst, on the other hand, to be able to conceal the absence of courage is useful” – Baron Charles de Berenger
• "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes" -Henry David Thoreau
• "If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences" - W.I. Thomas
• "The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another...Some of those situations may, no doubt, deserve to be preferred to others, but none of them can deserve to be pursued with that ...

• phantasmagoric
• glisten
• hoisted by his own petard
• carried away
• hoot
• Put that in your pipe and smoke it

What I have:

• Chef's Knife
• Paring Knife
• Knife sharpener
• Silicone-coated tongs
• Kitchen scissors
• stainless steel measuring spoons

What I need/would like:

Trying to use mostly stainless steel for cookware. Glass is good for baking. Stainless steel pots should have aluminum or copper core for better heat distribution. Stick with metal handles.

• Long serrated or Bread knife
• Stainless steel measuring cups (heavy gauge so they can be used on the stove top)

A Good Article:

• A No-Frills Kitchen Still Cooks

• Mad Men
• Upstairs Downstairs
• Deadwood

• Hark! A Vagrant
• xkcd

Animated

• Spirited Away
• Hedgehog in the Fog
• WALL-E
• Up
• The Secret of Kells

Live Action

• The Great Escape
• Rocky
• Roman Holiday
• There Will Be Blood
• Pride and Prejudice (1995)
• Sense and Sensibility (1995)
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Yojimbo
• Sanjuro
• Glengarry Glen Ross
• 12 Angry Men

Concert