Word: almanacs
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Something similar is now going on with Cho, whose florid writings and videos were an almanac of gripes. "I'm so lonely," he moped to a teacher, failing to mention that he often refused to answer even when people said hello. Of course he was lonely...
...example of how to live Japanese, you could say, without losing an American accent. Dalby began composing this 10th century-style pillow book about her 21st century Californian life four years ago, creating a diary of the seasons divided into the 72 five-day segments of an ancient Chinese almanac. She even wrote parts of the book first in Japanese. On its surface, her gardener's journal is a casual, wandering set of two- or three-page mini-essays on mushrooms, ruby-throated hummingbirds and incense-sniffing ceremonies in Berkeley. Deep down, it is proof that attention and precision-savoring...
...closest thing to “Shuffle Play,” some recognized the dangers of information overload: Ralph W. Emerson, Class of 1821, noted of the overly-busy man: “His notebooks impair his memory; his libraries overload his wit… A Greenwich nautical almanac he has… but does not know a star in the sky.” Perhaps the advent of the iPhone is a moment for us all to pause and reflect upon the gadgets that rule our lives. After all, combining our highly evolved ability to socialize (phone, Facebook), remember...
Blustery blizzards on Saturday, sweltering sunshine on Tuesday—seems like Cambridge’s weather is as loony as its panhandlers. To get to the bottom of our freaky climate, FM checked out ye olde bastion of meteorological knowledge: The Old Farmer’s Almanac. The paperback tome, published annually since 1792, purports to predict a year’s worth of America’s weather. This year, things look especially grim for Beantown. Come winter, Harvardians can look forward to reading period, latkes at Hillel, and “much greater than normal?...
...Foods USA, the largest mail-order firm in the business, was buying five 200-lb. hogs a month from Lazy S but is ratcheting up to 25 a month to meet demand. Besides Red Wattles, named for their ruddy hair and folds of neck skin, the company's biannual "almanac" offers 70 products, from Tunis lamb to Bourbon Red turkeys. "Dozens of delicious American treasures with a long history are on the brink of extinction," says Patrick Martins, co-founder of the company. "We must eat them to save them...