Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Sports and the Meaning of Life

Came across these two articles about two people in big-time college sports who found (are trying to find) the meaning of life somewhere else: a woman soccer player at LSU and Urban Meyer.

Tuesday, August 07, 2012

Short story by Fitzgerald

Thank You for the Light by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The New Yorker, August 6, 2012. HT: First Thoughts.

Saturday, August 04, 2012

Steel sculptures

I found the steel sculpture at the University of Florida (mentioned here); it is on the west side of Weil Hall not far from Florida Field and the O'Connell Center. I also happened to find a similar sculpture on the campus of the University of South Florida; it is near the engineering buildings. Here is a photo of that one: