July 2009
58 posts
“2 DJs are hanging out. One says to the other, “Do you want to go to the...”
– ballardian
“A student of behaviour psychology
Conditioned himself to stick to his studies...”
– Crash Test Dummies (jakelodwick)
A few years ago, I met a phd student working on optimal reward timing in the classical conditioning of pigeons. I asked him if he found himself delaying laughs to encourage optimally humorous social situations. He took me literally and was a bit awkward in...
“You have to be always drunk. That’s all there is to it—it’s the only way. So as...”
– Charles Baudelaire
The Earl of Edgecombe - The Slow Death of Mr. Go...
my office, just then
Tom Waits: You know, the yo-yo is a sixteenth century Philippine weapon. It weighed 4 pounds and had twenty feet of cord and only came to the US in 1929.
Beck: I'm wondering what’s going to show up in 2029 from the fourteenth century? Maybe there are other possibilities in the wings.
Tom Waits: Japan is the home of the $700 orange.
Beck: It’s the best orange you’ve ever had. It’s gonna be a religious orange experience. (Laughs)
Tom Waits: It’s supposed to be. Yeah, you...you’d want a room. Just with you and the orange, I think.
Beck: I'd always heard that when they drained the Echo Park Lake they found an amateur submarine.
Tom Waits: Oh, my God.
Beck: I don't know if that was lore.
Tom Waits: You mean a homemade submarine?
Beck: Yeah, I think it was older too, from the early days of "home submarine building." I don't know if that subculture still exists?
“My experience is what I agree to attend to.”
– William James
“Caloric restriction (CR), without malnutrition, delays aging and extends life...”
– Caloric Restriction Delays Disease Onset and Mortality in Rhesus Monkeys
I have a hypothesis that metabolic rate correlates with average life expectancy & that this is related to the accumulated protein-folding-error death theory.
“While naked DNA has a relatively static and easy to grasp information capacity —...”
– Unlimited multistability in multisite phosphorylation systems
Protein conformation is one of the most interesting things in the world to me. A leading theory on natural death from old age is that it’s caused by accumulated protein-folding errors.
Amir: Searching for “walked out” and “bruno” on Twitter is almost as fun and hilarious as the movie itself.
(rickyv)
Just thought I remembered a dream from last night
in which vendors were walking around a boardwalk selling Super Soakers & then I remembered that I was at the beach yesterday & African vendors were actually walking the beach, selling knock-off Super Soakers
Favorite Abruzzo Radio Stations
1. Radio Ketchup 2. Radio KissKiss
“Trying to make an OS out of Chrome is like saying you’re going to turn a...”
– fake steve jobs
Photography is Easy, Photography is Difficult by... →
(noahkalina:via)
“You have to view things in the context of your life expectancy.”
– Francis Ford Coppola
“Life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can admit to...”
– Thomas Pynchon, V
“The sperm whale’s 8-kilogram brain, the largest on the planet, is the...”
– On the Origin of The Nervous System by Greg Miller
To stick with sea creatures for a little bit.
“Words in Liberty Sea Platter: A watermelon half at sail across a sea of endive,...”
– Back to the Futurists: Italy’s First Avant-Garde Turns 100 by Kate Bolick