February 2012
1 post
January 2012
2 posts
Watch“High schoolers send Lego Man into space”
December 2011
5 posts
“Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It...”
– Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless. (via Stuart Carlton)
November 2011
3 posts
October 2011
2 posts
BlackBerry cuts made roads safer, police say →
A dramatic fall in traffic accidents this week has been directly linked to the three-day disruption in BlackBerry services. In Dubai, traffic accidents fell 20 per cent from average rates on the days BlackBerry users were unable to use its messaging service. In Abu Dhabi, the number of accidents this week fell 40 per cent and there were no fatal accidents.
September 2011
5 posts
3 tags
“No reason was given for going to war that could not be refuted by a literate...”
– Media Control - Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
3 tags
“[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give...”
– Karl Pilkington (via mrkarlpilkington)
“And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning...”
– The Wasteland, T.S. Elliot (via scarygirl)
August 2011
3 posts
July 2011
4 posts
You Knew Getting Into This Marriage Where I Stood... →
“When are you going to be done with this parkour crap,” you say? One does not simply end his connection to parkour. Let’s get real, Jessica. While you’re at it, why not ask me “How does one complete life’s transcendent journey?” Everything in front of us is parkour’s playground. Parkour has no precipice. God’s green Earth is not a flat table. This is not the 13th century.
On Whiskey and Grease: Drinking the Last Bottle of... →
I’m not going to offer up any summary of this beautiful little story. Just spend the two minutes and read it. It is well worth your time.
June 2011
4 posts
A Teenage Philosopher Defends Missing Her Curfew →
[…] I can’t believe how annoying you guys are sometimes. I’ve told you over and over again that time as we experience it doesn’t exist. Don’t roll your eyes at me, Dad! Tell me how events in a time series can be both future and past. No, I won’t drop it! You know they have to be both in order to support our understanding of time, and that’s a contradiction. I’ve seriously told you...
“You can’t go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back...”
– Thomas Wolfe, fortune teller
Your Renegade Ways Have No Place In Geek Squad →
What, you expected some kind of hero’s welcome because you fixed a older couple’s router during a routine HDTV setup? Not from me, hotshot. You’re a goddamn TV install technician. That is fucking it. You hit anything else, you call for backup. I don’t give two shits what kind of home networking crap you pulled in the academy. There is an order here for a reason.
Shut the fuck up and let me...
May 2011
2 posts
April 2011
2 posts
A royal dialogue
Me: What the hell did Princess Di ever see in Charles? Everyone knew he was the hideous prince.
My wife: a big cock?
March 2011
7 posts
Family Tech Support
Me: So you're in Firefox right now or Internet Explorer?
Mom: I told you already - neither. I'm in Google.
Me: (with the patience of a saint) Ya, but how'd you get there?
Mom: By clicking on the internet.
Me: Ok, fuck sakes. I'll see you on Friday maybe. Bring your computer.
“Angelica stands by the sea
Anything I say is too loud for her mood
I will have...”
– Leonard Cohen, “Angelica”
I went on a huge Leonard Cohen bender during my undergrad. And every year or so I revisit his work to remind myself of something. Of beauty. Of ernest. Of cunning and craftsmanship. I dunno.
“I wonder how many people in this city
live in furnished rooms.
Late at night...”
– Leonard Cohen, “I Wonder How Many People in This City”
“The man who can’t visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.”
– André Breton (via invisiblestories)
The founder of Surrealism.
(via fantasticraig)
“Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all...”
– J G Ballard. (via feastingonroadkill)
January 2011
1 post
“If there does come a day when the rhetoric gets so intense and so specifically...”
– Stephen Colbert (via inothernews)
December 2010
8 posts
not like the old days...
When I was young I used to take in a ton of cash at Christmas. Now I barely break even. Why even bother?
“Actually, Julian Assange didn’t leak anything—he can’t, because he didn’t have...”
– Jim Naureckas, FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » WikiLeaks Hasn’t ‘Leaked’ Anything 12/1/10
No doubt the government’s lawyers already have told them this and that’s the reason for all the bluster and threat. (via drwh0)
November 2010
12 posts
