February 2012
11 posts
obit:
You watch as I sip my coffee on the park bench and the problem isn’t you watching but that I know you’re watching me sip my coffee. So in my head I watch us, you watching me and me watching you watching me, and there is no one there in that body of mine but a self-conscious fool lifting the drink to his lips in such an awkward fashion, so unnaturally, so twisted and forced to seem natural...
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“I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in...”
– Jeffrey McDaniel
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Beware of those who hide ugly things with pretty words
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“I raise this question: can it be doubted that three kilogram brains were nearly fatal defects in the evolution of the human race?
A second query: what source was there, save for our overelaborate nervous circuitry, for the evils we were seeing or hearing about simply everywhere?
My answer: there was no other source. This was a very innocent planet, except for those great big brains.
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Geek post:
I listened to a woman on the radio today talk about her research on the history of binary systems. Before this, the word binary only invoked 0100011101010100s and images of CompSci nerds in my head. It never really entered my mind that binary systems can be viewed as fundamental to the following things:
poetry
theology
knitting
The concept of a binary system actually first came about when an...
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Mode moderne- Disco Ruff
Its gray today. Channel...
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“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your weeping father to know that all...
