October 2008
48 posts
“The trick was to have it be honest but also interesting — because most of our...”
– david foster wallace on writing nonfiction from david lipsky’s great profile in rolling stone.
“Dark knights! You know it’s been a minute since I’ve been back in...”
– spiderfang
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Twin Peaks: 1989 vs 2008 →
i was just in snoqualmie in september & climbed the big si. eric & i had lunch at the double R, where you get unlimited fries and pretty delicious milkshakes. (via yacht)
“The advantage gained from the electrical, for example, rose from 16 to 18 points...”
– there’s some italian newspaper translation courtesy of translate.google
me: dlmwrite(name, rest1_timecourses_all_subjects_trim(:,i,select_roi_all_14_sub), 'delimiter', '\t');
me: name = all_subject_rest1_left_right_fef.dat
antonello: hey man… i can save it in .xls!!
me: excellent!
antonello: !!!
me: totally
antonello: total request live… mtv generation
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the giggle girls with purp & swizza, the tickle crew
javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24;...
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“Next thing you’re going to bring up is fractals, and don’t tell me...”
– a grad student having an argument about the limits of knowledge at the berkeley after-party for the 2004 society for neuroscience meeting in san diego
The Grandpa Pants Diet
All food is delivered in packaging the removal of which will expend precisely the number of calories the meal will afford.
(This also doubles as a torture technique).
“yo, blonde girls who won’t sleep with me! I mad invited Justin Bobby to...”
– reading recaps on gawker isn’t healthy, but it’s fun
student: i, um, have scrito un email to you
me: yea, i just saw it...
student: yes, i say, some, quelcosa generalizata, poi, una domanda, ja scrito...
me: yea, i'll read the email
student: yes, i have write, for "do there methods for DTI, for the mouse?"
me: i'll just read the email. i'll write you an email back.
student: yes. ok. yes, thank you.
me: great.
“my work is in the neural correlates of sexual arousal, but my passion is for...”
– a girl at a meeting, who then offered me a piece from a strawberry marmalade torte she had just made
“i have done the ‘how many pushups can you do?’, to which you reply...”
– pjc1033