May 2008
67 posts
“The physical world is very high bandwidth”
– Paul Graham - Cities & Ambition (via marco)
“you know the one superstition i subscribe to? i think white previas are signs of...”
– eric
“It’s the 21st century, there’s not going to be a year in which it’s harder to...”
– Cory Doctorow (via poortaste) (via marco)
Blue Suburban
Out in the elegy country, summer evenings, It used to be always six o’clock, or seven, Where the fountain of the willow always wept Over the lawn, where the shadows crept longer But came no closer, where the talk was brilliant, The laughter friendly, where they all were young And taken by the darkness in surprise That night should come and the small lights go on In the lonely house down in...
“facebook flirting is simultaneously exquisite & revolting.”
amm: this morning on the el i was sans pod/book so to kill time i counted helv occurrences....lost track
me: haha, nice
amm: yeah i had major insomnia last night....so i caught up on all my netflix. slept maybe 2 hours. feel like garbage oggi
me: ewwww
me: do they accept hugs as contractually binding?
erin: hugs and/or stickers
me: scratch n sniff or any ol sticky thing?
erin: def prefer s n s, obvx
erin: obvs
me: obvx = obnoxiously obvious
“Our results suggest that the brain’s intrinsic functional architecture, reported...”
so closed to the finished writing this paper... i...
Obama is an Adult →
During a fund-raiser in Denver, Obama —a former constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago Law School — was asked what he hoped to accomplish during his first 100 days in office. “I would call my attorney general in and review every single executive order issued by George Bush and overturn those laws or executive decisions that I feel violate the constitution,” said Obama. ...
more arcadia
Noakes: I am sure a hermit can be found. One could advertise.
Lady Croom: Advertise?
Noakes: In the newspapers.
Lady Croom: But surely a hermit who takes a newspaper is not a hermit in whom one can have complete confidence.
“Security has a way of making philosophy irrelevant, and anyone who disagrees is...”
– chuck klosterman from this essay, in his collection IV.
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from Tom Stoppard's Arcadia
Chloë: do you think i'm the first person to think of this?
Valentine: NO.
Chloë: I haven't said yet. The future is all prgrammed like a computer - that's a proper theory, isn't it?
Valentine: The deterministic universe, yes.
Chloë: Right. Because everything including us is just a lot of atoms bouncing off each other like billiard balls.
Valentine: Yes. There was someone, forget his name, 1820s, who pointed out that from Newton's laws you could predict everything to come - I mean, you'd need a computer as big as the universe but the formula would exist.
Chloë: But it doesn't work, does it?
Valentine: No. It turns out the maths is different.
Chloë: No, it's all because of sex.
Valentine: Really?
Chloë: That's what I think. The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people fancying people who aren't supposed to be in that part of the plan.
Valentine: Ah. The attraction that Newton left out. All the way back to the apple in the garden. Yes. Yes, I think you're the first person to think of this.
“this would be my cute campaign sign: john mccain, oldie but not a goodie”
– eric
me : do you think you love your mom or music more?
erin: i can't even answer that question
“i dont think i’m an absent-minded person, i just prioritize things in an...”
– me, explaining why i often appear forgetful
“I want that bear to maul the fuck out of that ref.”
– dr radical.
“i’m tryng in the abstract to coupulate the FC consistence by time and...”
– antonello in im about a paper we’re working on. i’m interested in how the coupulation went.
“at the end of the day all any woman wants is a steady hubby and clean teeth”
– caf
“lol,
mom”
– my mom closing an email… i’m pretty sure she misstyped, but i can’t figure out what she meant. UPDATE : i just realized it means “lot’s of love” … thank god. otherwise : 1. my mom has apparently been spending far more time on the web than i had...
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually...”
– Eric Hoffer, by way of Pat Buchanan in this New Yorker piece.
“I began to get enormously interested in hearing how everybody said the same...”
– gertrude stein - the making of americans
“The real truth of the matter is, and you and I know, that a financial element in...”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt to Edward M. House (Aide to President Wilson), November 23, 1933. I’m interested in the formation of the Federal Banking system. In reading some of Alexander Hamilton’s writing, the idea of National Debt & a Federal Bank makes intuitive sense, but I also know it...
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be...”
– C.S. Lewis (via mascarah) (via carolynannahall)
“Most of us would never deliberately choose our own material comfort over the...”
– We Shop, They Drop (via azspot) (via marco) I think there’s a lot of invisibility in modern production - from the way food is grown & processed, to the travel, impact & labour of everything we buy. I hope for a better informed future.
overheard in budapest
guy 1: would you rather have a daughter or son pro tennis player?
guy 2: son. definitely son. more money.
Fun Fact: You're paying more for text messages... →
(via deadlybrad42)
lifehacker discusses the cannon hackers firmware... →
pretty awesome. a development kit to modify cannon point-and-shoot cameras firmware - adding some great features.