| Tuesday, April 15, 2008 | |
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Manassas Restaurant Recommendation?
By Diana Hsieh @ 9:47 PM   
Paul and I will be visiting the Manassas Battlefield Park in Virginia this Sunday with my parents. Can anyone recommend a good and hearty but reasonably-priced restaurant -- say $15-25 per entree -- on Route 66 back to the Capitol Beltway? Somewhere along the Beltway north to the western end of the Metro Red Line (i.e. to Medical Center or Grosvenor-Strathmore stations) would also be fine, as my parents will be dropping us off at one of those stations. I wouldn't wish to travel more than a few miles from our main route.So... any recommendations? Labels: Recommendations  E-mail Diana Hsieh
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| Saturday, January 05, 2008 | |
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Seasonique
By Diana Hsieh @ 7:05 AM
Sometimes Mother Nature is wise and wonderful. Sometimes she's a nasty old hag in need of improvement from modern medicine. Case in point: Seasonique.(Warning to the men: I'm about to discuss the female reproductive system. Steel yourself!) Seasonique is the birth control pill that produces only four periods per year, i.e. every three months. The research indicates that it's as safe and effective as monthly-cycle pills. I just finished my first three-month pack. I suffered absolutely no ill effects. From what my doctor told me, it's actually a lower dose of hormones than my prior pill (Ortho/Novum 135). This pill does not merely eliminate the hassle of the monthly period, this particular pill allows a woman to have more sex. And here at NoodleFood, we're all in favor of that. Hence, this post. Labels: Love/Sex, Recommendations E-mail Diana Hsieh
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| Wednesday, December 05, 2007 | |
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Christmas Shopping
By Diana Hsieh @ 9:24 AM
From The Objective Standard:A subscription to The Objective Standard is the perfect gift for your active-minded friends and relatives. The journal presupposes no specialized knowledge and will be appreciated by anyone with an interest in cultural or political issues. (While supplies last, we can even provide recipients with the complete set of back issue.)You can give a gift of The Objective Standard via this gift subscriptions page, by mailing or faxing this order form or by calling 800-423-6151. The page on gift subscriptions also notoes: "Gift subscriptions can be given to institutions, such as libraries, too. And, although institutions pay the institutional rate, gifts to institutions are sold at the regular rate of $59 for a one-year subscription ($109 for two years). Promote your values widely; give liberally!" Labels: Recommendations E-mail Diana Hsieh
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| Sunday, September 30, 2007 | |
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We the Living
By Diana Hsieh @ 12:43 AM
I'm super-excited by the recent announcement from the Ayn Rand Bookstore that the audiobook of Ayn Rand's We the Living will be available on CD in October. Until now, it's only been sold on cassette. It'll be available on both regular CD and MP3 CD. The MP3 CD is just $45, whereas the regular CD is $120.I love We the Living intensely: Kira is the Randian hero/heroine with whom I most strongly identify -- by a long shot. So I'm really looking forward to listening to it. (I wonder if it will also be available for download via Audible. I hope so!) Labels: Announcements, Recommendations E-mail Diana Hsieh
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| Saturday, August 25, 2007 | |
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Galt’s Speech Dissected and Discounted
By Diana Hsieh @ 5:07 AM
Onkar Ghate's excellent course A Study of Galt's Speech is currently half price from the Ayn Rand Bookstore. It's part of their big fire sale on audiocassettes. (I love cheap!)Labels: Announcements, Recommendations E-mail Diana Hsieh
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| Tuesday, June 26, 2007 | |
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Red Pawn
By Diana Hsieh @ 7:34 AM
Last year, one of my favorite courses at OCON was Dina Schein's Savoring Ayn Rand's Red Pawn. Not only was it delightful to talk about my absolute favorite work of Ayn Rand's outside her novels, but Dina did an excellent job of taking us step-by-step through the literary analysis.Finally, it's available from the Ayn Rand Bookstore. Hooray! Labels: Announcements, Recommendations E-mail Diana Hsieh
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| Wednesday, May 23, 2007 | |
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Good Stuff and Awesome Stuff
By Diana Hsieh @ 7:05 AM
Registered users of the Ayn Rand Institutes's web site now have access to...The Ayn Rand Multimedia LibraryThe second is cool, but the first is simply awesome. I've listened to most of the recordings of Ayn Rand already. I particularly enjoyed the Ford Hall Forum lectures, for the reasons explained here. Even those well familiar with the in-print Objectivist corpus will likely find interesting tidbits to tweak their brains in these recordings. And, as I said about the Ford Hall Forum lectures, "those who wish for some small first-hand glimpse of the real Ayn Rand, undistorted by ax-grinding critics, will find these lectures to be an invaluable treasure." Labels: Announcements, Recommendations E-mail Diana Hsieh
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| Saturday, February 10, 2007 | |
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Flemming Rose
By Diana Hsieh @ 7:36 PM
A while back, Ari Armstrong reported on Flemming Rose's December lecture in Denver. Even better, he posted the whole speech in MP3 format.Also, the full set of lectures from the fall 2006 Boston weekend conference "The Jihad Against the West" is now available from the Ayn Rand Bookstore. That version of Flemming Rose's talk was definitely better than the one given in Denver. I really enjoyed talking to Flemming Rose while he was in Denver. He's a remarkable -- and very admirable -- man. Labels: Announcements, Recommendations E-mail Diana Hsieh
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| Monday, January 15, 2007 | |
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Conservatism
By Diana Hsieh @ 6:13 AM
Hooray! Brad Thompson's excellent 2006 OCON lecture "Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea" is now available from the Ayn Rand Bookstore. Here's the description:This lecture examines the intellectual history of the neoconservatives and their plan for governing America. Dr. Thompson introduces the neocons by tracing the evolution of their thought from their youthful Trotskyism in the 1930s to their anticommunist liberalism in the 1940s and '50s and finally to their development of a new kind of conservatism in the 1960s and beyond.Also, someone recently pointed me to this conservative attack on Brad Thompson's excellent article "The Decline and Fall of American Conservatism" from The Objective Standard. The critic begins with some serious confusions about Thompson's basic position, plus some Divine Command Theory: "As always with libertarians, he offers a subjective philosophy rather than an objective set of standards for behavior, which is what morality requires and is why morality is dependent on God." More inanity ensues. And to top it off, the post ends with the following: "For all his talk of conservatism, there is nothing of America or its Judeo-Christian/Western inheritance that his egoism would conserve. This kind of extreme selfishness is the rot that has destroyed the rest of the West and conservatives do well not just to reject it but to fight against it tooth and nail." Well, at least he knows who his enemies are. Labels: Recommendations E-mail Diana Hsieh
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| Friday, August 18, 2006 | |
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Darryl-Wright-O-Rama
By Diana Hsieh @ 9:52 AM
It's Darryl-Wright-O-Rama at the Ayn Rand Bookstore.Dr. Wright's very fascinating -- albeit dense and technical -- lecture from the 2005 OCON has just been released: "Ayn Rand and the History Of Ethics"This lecture is fascinating, but also quite dense and technical. So if you don't have some familiarity with the history of ethics, including the standard categories of "consequentialism" and "deontology" and the standard questions about ultimate values, then you'll probably have trouble understanding it. However, if you have those meta-ethical basics, you're sure to find it worthwhile. The lecture does have a particularly interesting discussion of how to think of Ayn Rand's metaethics inductively. That's helped me understand it better, since before it always had something of the feel of a floating abstraction. Dr. Wright's other lecture courses are also on sale -- 50% off! Bonus clearance sale: 50% discounts on four other Darryl Wright titles!I can't say anything about Modern Political Philosophy: Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, since I haven't listened to it yet. However, the other three courses are excellent. I would particularly recommend Advanced Topics In Ethics first and foremost, then Reason And Freedom, then The Philosophy of Motivation. Labels: Announcements, Recommendations E-mail Diana Hsieh
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| Thursday, August 03, 2006 | |
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Two Lecture Courses on Sale
By Diana Hsieh @ 7:04 AM
The Ayn Rand Bookstore is selling two of Leonard Peikoff's excellent lecture courses at a substantial discount:Induction in Physics and PhilosophyThe sale ends on October 1st. Labels: Announcements, Recommendations E-mail Diana Hsieh
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| Tuesday, May 23, 2006 | |
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Virtue is Expensive
By Diana Hsieh @ 7:01 AM
Tara Smith's new book, Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist, seems to be selling reasonably well, despite its painful price tag of about $80. The Ayn Rand Bookstore has sold out of copies for the moment. And its sales rank on Amazon has been amazingly strong for a book of that price for the past few days I've sampled: #14,903 on Saturday, #35,080 on Sunday, and #65,420 on Monday.I haven't had a chance to read it in full yet -- and I don't expect to do so for a few weeks. However, both Paul and I read the chapter on integrity for the 1FROG meeting this past Saturday. I thought it exceedingly well done. It was clearly and engagingly written with a good presentation of the core ideas, plus more fascinating little tidbits than I could count. As I was reading, the thought that stood out most clearly in my mind was that the chapter didn't just illuminate the nature, justification, and requirements of integrity in an abstract way. If a person reads it with an eye toward his own life, i.e. without sinking into detached rationalism, the chapter will help him practice the virtue of integrity better in countless ways in his own life. I expect similar delights from the rest of the book. For folks unable to afford the present hefty price tag, you might request that your (university) library purchase the book. Also, I strongly suspect a cheaper paperback to appear within the next year or so. However, if you can afford the current price tag, the book looks to be worth it. Labels: Recommendations E-mail Diana Hsieh
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| Thursday, February 23, 2006 | |
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An Update on Andy Bernstein Lectures
By Diana Hsieh @ 2:58 PM
As an update on this inquiry about the lectures by Andy Bernstein on sale at the Ayn Rand Bookstore this month, I thought I should mention that Andy was kind enough to reply to my inquiry. And based upon his recommendation, I've decided to buy:(I saved over $90!) I'm looking forward to listening to them, although I'll probably wait until I listen to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. (I recently bought the unabridged audio books with my Audible subscription.) That might be a few months though, since I can't afford to lose myself in the pleasure of listening to Ayn Rand novels when I'm utterly swamped by graduate school. Labels: Announcements, Recommendations E-mail Diana Hsieh
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