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Lady Mendl’s Tea Salon (5/5) on Yelp.com

Lady Mendl’s Tea Salon (5/5) on Yelp.com
What do you expect from a guy who had his wedding rehearsal dinner there? The salon, and the …

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● New book by Gladwell: Outliers

● New book by Gladwell: Outliers
The Amazon page for Malcolm Gladwell’s new book is up. From here, we learn that the full title …

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It’s kind of cool to learn what distinguishes the history of ideas from intellectual history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ideas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_history 

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AIMS NextEinstein

AIMS NextEinstein

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A Handy List of Great Wine Importers:
Terry Theise (Germany, Austria, France)
Kermit Lynch (France)
Alain Junguenet (France)
Louis/Dressner (France)
Kysela Pere et Fils (France) …

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According to Ferrari, all these excuses are just the procrastinator’s tissue-thin front for what’s happening on the subconscious level: “The chronic procrastinator knows he’s presenting a negative image, but he’d rather be perceived negatively for lack of effort than for lack of ability,” he says. “Lack of ability is a stable attribute, but lack of effort is shifting—it means you could do it, you might be able to do it.” Maybe it’s the “might” factor that allows us finally to draw a line between procrastination and writer’s block. A block is thick, insurmountable, cast in stone, “as impenetrable as the Great Pyramid,” in Clarke’s words. Procrastination is a more pliant creature. When we defer a challenge until a hazy, ill-defined “later,” one might say that we devalue future time and belittle our circumstances in it; but you could also say that we are irrationally exuberant about the future—it becomes an ascetic, distraction-free idyll where all appetites have been permanently gratified, where minutes stretch out as luxuriously as hours, where all our creative prayers are answered. You might even call procrastination a perverse form of optimism.

According to Ferrari, all these excuses are just the procrastinator’s tissue-thin front for what’s happening on the subconscious level: “The chronic procrastinator knows he’s presenting …

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Redhook Bait & Tackle (2/5) on Yelp.com

Redhook Bait & Tackle (2/5) on Yelp.com
Lots of character, and that’s great. But something of a coke line queuing at the restrooms the entire …

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Brownstone Billiards (2/5) on Yelp.com

Brownstone Billiards (2/5) on Yelp.com
Hard to rate a place this quixotic and oddball, but I’ll try. Don’t buy your drinks here—go across the street …

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