June 2008
109 posts
“New personal policy : I only quote William James & Schwarzenegger.”
“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among...”
– W.H. Auden (via scout, neverneverland)
“Do we really believe that the only thing keeping bosses from paying people more...”
– Tim Wise (via azspot)
“Even as I write these words, it is virtually certain that somewhere on the...”
– Jim Webb on the Criminal Justice System (via azspot)
“The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via unicornology)
“whenever i get an email from friendster it’s like the past is talking to...”
“When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the...”
– kurt vonnegut, quoted by Shaun Inman (via kottke).
“Bill Pilgrim has become unstuck in time.” is one of my all-time favorite lines from fiction.
“ummm…. i just wanted to figure out what day of the week september 6th...”
“Salt prospectors were able to find salt domes by recognizing the rounded shape...”
– Mark Kurlanksy, Salt : A world history
“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close...”
– Moliere (via lifeasart) (via unicornology)
“i’m not getting anything done at home, except i did plant 2 passion flower...”
– my mom brags very little, but when she does it always involves how many flowers or trees she’s recently planted in our yard (which is, literally, a forest) or how much yoga she’s recently done. lady can brag.
“Sassafras was a commodity prized in Europe as a cure for Gonorrhea.”
– the wikipedia entry on sassafras - i’m trying to research potentially distilling sassafras roots for a rootbeer flavored liqueur.
“The kid who thinks he can move back and forth through time decides to exit a...”
– Antiheroes by George Saunders (via kottke)
“In fact, KBR did at one point threaten to stop providing basic supplies — little...”
– Privatizing The Army (via azspot)
“Outside of dramatically failed experiments like the Soviet Union and East...”
– Cory Doctorow (via azspot)
“In your hypothalamus is a clump of cells called the suprachiasmatic nucleus that...”
– Deepa Ranganathan in Slate
“Hello… Hello… Sveglia!”
– francesco’s computer, which he’s made yell at him whenever it’s finished computing something.
“Who is Houston?”
– my friend, simone, who just learned that “Houston, we have a problem” doesn’t refer to a person.
“We comprehend… that nuclear power is a real danger for mankind, that...”
– Werner Herzog
“If you switch on television it’s just ridiculous and its destructive. It...”
– Werner Herzog
“Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around...”
– Vinod Khosla (from Vanity Fair)
“Windows will be reduced down to being a poorly debugged bag of device drivers.”
– Marc Andreessen meeting with Microsoft in 1995. (from Vanity Fair)
“Do you think I could get a job calculating the amortization schedule for killer...”
– this is the tagline on my future tell-all : Accounting for Humor
Watchany future i’d want to live in involves lots more of this.
interesting perspective on mccain potentially... →
“Images. Millions of images. That’s what I eat.”
– William Burroughs
“Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political...”
– William Burroughs
me: i hate nuance
kevin: that's what he said
me: i also hate innuendo
kevin: you have the dexterity of a demi-god
kevin: i just bought 2 power saws.