My Virtual Reading Room

What (if any) photo hosting services do you use, to post photos here on DW?

Thanks xx

Дни идут... всё так же воздух душен,
Дряхлый мир - на роковом пути...
Человек - до ужаса бездушен,
Слабому спасенья не найти!

Но... молчи, во гневе справедливом!
Ни людей, ни века не кляни:
Волю дав лирическим порывам,
Изойдешь слезами в наши дни...

The days pass...and the air feels just as stuffy,
The dilapidated world is on a fateful path...
Humans are horrifyingly soulless,
A frail person cannot hope for justice!

But...keep silent, in your righteous anger!
Do not curse the people, or the era:
If one gives free reign to lyrical outbursts,
One will only dissolve in tears, in these days we live in...



...well, when do you think this was written? And who do you think the author might be?

EDIT: the author is N.A. Nekrasov and the date is 1877

So I was intrigued by the title of this article in The Washington Post: How to get rid of notifications for unread emails and texts


The article begins thus:

"The numbers inside the angry notification bubbles on our phones and computer screens have become meaningless.

I have 66,394 unread emails, 416 unlistened-to voice mails and 316 alerts from my bank. There are push alerts, piling up for everything from old grocery orders to breaking news. Sometimes, just for fun, I’ll hit mute and let the Slack notifications pile up.

I’m not even the worst offender. A survey of friends and co-workers found unread text messages, social media notifications and DMs in the double-digits. Two people had more than 300,000 ignored emails."

...Frankly, I'm a bit puzzled--are people not at all concerned about missing an important message? Besides, do they not find it annoying...?

P.S. I decided to risk taking a look at the comments for this article, and I see many of the commenters are equally puzzled.

Let's see--

I can't make a poll, so just reply in comments, please.

I've lots of stuff I can post, but I'd like to know what people are interested in seeing. I know some people read without commenting, so--

• Poems
• Songs (anti-war, satire)
• Songs (children's or generally fun)
• Nature photos and videos
• Pictures/paintings
• Inspirational and fictional stories
• Or something else (please specify)

Thank you :)

I made some changes to the book list--not changed the numbering yet, will do after we're done revising. Please comment if you want any of the books removed, any of those removed, put back,  or any new ones added.

Thanks! I look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with :)
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1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (not all of them but a fair number)
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot( Read more... )

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Originally posted by kavery at Цвточный дыбр

That their party, after hard fighting, had the ill luck to succeed..."
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Three guesses as to the source and timeframe...:P

(Things native English speakers know, but don't know we know, from MattAndersonBBC:

adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun.
So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife.
But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you'll sound like a maniac.
It's an odd thing that every English speaker uses that list, but almost none of us could write it out.
And as size comes before colour, green great dragons can't exist.)



...those of you who are more serious writers and/or editors than I am, is that always the case? :)

...or background info, anyone? What exactly is this "safe space" in other colleges?

U. of Chicago to frosh: no safe spaces here

UChicago dean warns students: if you want safe spaces, stay away

Hello everyone,

A LJ acquaintance asked me this:

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I know this may be an odd request, but there is this app that I use called "Mercari" and every user receives a few dollars when they can get someone to sign up.
The app is free. Signing up is free. Everything is free.

I was wondering if you wouldn't mind signing up so I can receive the few dollars? If so, the invite code to use is: VPTWGS
(you must use the code for the person to receive credit)

The only reason I ask is because there's a Christmas gift on the app I would love to buy for my significant other, but considering our financial situation it would be tough to afford without a little help and Christmas is just around the corner.

You can delete the app after you sign up if it's not something you're interested in :)
~~

Since I don't have a smartphone, I told the acquaintance that I could pass the info along, and was told to please go ahead.

So, if you _do_ have a smartphone, and feel like taking a few minutes to do someone a favor, I'd appreciate it ;)
(and if, like me, you don't have a smartphone, perhaps you can pass this request along to someone who does?)

Thanks for reading!

...or is it one of Granada's stills? Or a photomanip of a Granada still? What do you think? Or does anyone happen to know?

(source: Eleanor Victoria Lamont‎ to I LOVE HISTORICAL IMAGES on FB)

Originally posted by petrusplancius at Who is this, then?

Charles Bukowski on the Ideal Conditions and Myths of Creativity, Illustrated

by Maria Popova

“Air and light and time and space have nothing to do with it and don’t create anything except maybe a longer life to find new excuses for.”

Charles Bukowski — man of outrageous daily routine, curious creature of proud cynicism and self-conscious sensitivity, occasional pessimist with a heartening view of the meaning of life — had a singular way of conveying immutable wisdom in his seemingly simple, often crude, but invariably expressive verses. His 1992 poem “air and light and time and space,” found in the altogether fantastic anthology The Last Night of the Earth Poems, is a poignant and soulful reminder that “inspiration is for amateurs” and grit is the real key to creativity — or, as Tchaikovsky famously put it, “a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.”

AIR AND LIGHT AND TIME AND SPACE

”– you know, I’ve either had a family, a job,
something has always been in the
way
but now
I’ve sold my house, I’ve found this
place, a large studio, you should see the space and
the light.
for the first time in my life I’m going to have
a place and the time to
create.”

( "no, baby, if you're going to create..." )

Now, Gavin Aung Than of Zen Pencils — who have previously illustrated such cultural treasures as Bill Watterson’s timeless commencement address on creative integrity have adapted Buk’s beautiful poem into one of their signature comics:

( Wonderfully drawn comic strip of the poem, do take a look: )

Originally posted by olenenyok at Пора по кофе ))) Какой кофе предпочитаете?

Came across this today, a bit farfetched, methinks...have you seen this before, folks? How does this strike you?

Here is where I found it (this is in Russian): my.mail.ru/community/www.sb.com/5FAD399AB5F2101B.html

And found this one in English, via Google: www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article823462.ece

This was left as a comment to my comment on LJ last Nov. or Dec.--I keep forgetting about it. Does anybody know anything at all about this???
Thanks,
Cat
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Hi, everyone,

I am doing a project for school/work which is as follows: I'm going to take a telemetry class later this Spring, and as I'm finishing my MSN/Ed and the tele class instructor knows this, asked me to do a brief presentation for the class.  She and I agreed that I could present a brief historical perspective on CPR and how cardiovascular illness was diagnosed and treated in general, from early 19th century to today. Does anybody happen to know of any suitable resources off-hand, as I know several people on my f-list are interested in medical matters? :)

Thanks very much!
Cat

EDIT: actually, found a link that looks interesting ;)  Here: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2329859/

EDIT #2: (Feb. 4, 2010)--thanks to everyone for your assistance; as you may see in comments below, the project wasn't for school, but I didn't want to give away the fact that I was working on a story for watsons_woes ;)