Fleeced Like A Frog – The Sharp Increase In Razor Prices

The story goes that if you put a frog in boiling water, it will jump out immediately. But if you put the frog in cold water, then gradually heat the water, the frog will remain in the water and die. Biologically speaking, this is apparently a load of old codswallop (see for example http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=758865 and . . . → Read More: Fleeced Like A Frog – The Sharp Increase In Razor Prices

Word Of The Week: Follower

From Merriam Webster Online (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/follower)

1 a: one in the service of another : retainer b: one that follows the opinions or teachings of another c: one that imitates another 2 archaic : one that chases 3: a sheet added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed 4: a machine part that . . . → Read More: Word Of The Week: Follower

Commitment To New Beginnings

The beginning of May, the beginning of the week, the beginning of Spring.

May you be inspired to new beginnings by the following quotation:

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas . . . → Read More: Commitment To New Beginnings

The Moving Finger Writes

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Fitzgerald.