"Erin Go Braless!" Man will I ever get tired of thinking that?
"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting." --Henry James. Man that's why I look for the interestingness of everything!"It is better to be quotable than to be honest." --Tom Stoppard"Today's weather: scattered begorrah" --http://twitter.com/Lileks"If I'm gonna go down in history for one quote, let it be "Everyone knows cupcakes are just muffins in drag."" --http://twitter.com/rstevens"I think I was a strictly rationalist skeptic in a former life." --http://twitter.com/loresjoberg
Kind of makes me wish our traffic lights were smart and more aware of traffic waiting. I am unwilling to relocate to North Korea to get that however.
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Bostoners: you may have forgotten, but that big bright thing in the sky is the "sun". DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY AT IT.
Also, a tint of blue in the sky, rather than the typical grey-white, is acceptable.
"The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank." --Dante Gabriel RossettiIt's seven PM and daylight. I can't even tell you how much love I have for Daylight Savings Time.
"I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead" --http://twitter.com/Kurt_Vonnegut
Increasingly, nowadays, the context for writing is a very short form utterance, with constant interaction. I worry that people will lose the ability to state a thesis in unambiguous terms and a clear logical progression. But because they'll be in instantaneous contact with their audience, they can restate their ideas as needed until ambiguities are cleared up and their reasoning is unveiled. And they'll be learning from others along with way. Making an elegant and persuasive initial statement won't be so important because that statement will be only the first step of many. Let's admit that dialog is emerging as our generation's way to develop and share knowledge. [...] If the Romantic ideal of the solitary genius is fading, what model for information exchange do we have? Check Plato's Symposium. Thinkers were expected to engage with each other (and to have fun while doing so). Socrates denigrated reading, because one could not interrogate the author. To him, dialog was more fertile and more conducive to truth. --Andy Oram, http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/01/pew-research-asks-questions-ab.html
The other week at my UU Science and Spirituality reading group, one of the members asked "could I make a request? Could you finish a sentence before starting another one?" And I know I'm a tangential thinker, but I also think it is a different form of communication based less on the monologue and more on the classic dialog. Still, I tried to mold my sentences to be a little more complete before I uttered them, and preweed the tangents.
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Feed a fever, starve a cold. Lightly sup with rickets." --Animal Crossing: Wild World
AT&T: drop it like it's hot, drop it like it's hot
"Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be. We owe them some respect!" --Temple Grandin (on cattle at the slaughterhouse) in her excellent HBO film - one of the best things I've seen this yearREQUEST ACCESS TO CLU PROGRAM CODE 6 PASSWORD TO MEMORY 0222 "Oh, man, this isn't happening, it only thinks its happening." --Tron- still great! Can't wait for the sequel
BeFunky.com is a very cool website, lots of nifty photopshopy filters to play with.
And yeah, I gotta get over this photo as my "go to" photo for image manipulation fun. Still it came out kinda nifty here.
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Hooray it's DST already!
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels it finds that darkness has always got there first and is waiting for it. --vishal, http://loveblender.com/Between stuff like Hulu.com and craptastic #comcast dvr and cable service, amber and I are thinking cable tv might not be for our next place.
