February 2010
52 posts
January 2010
34 posts
Say it out loud: iPad
lonelysandwich:
I’ve spent 14 hours with it floating around in my head now, this revolutionary new thing with an unfamiliar official new name where before there existed a perfectly respectable hypothetical one. And I’ve made up my mind: Apple should be as embarrassed with their decision as I am for them.
See, the thing is, the name looks better than it sounds. Sitting in a room covered in...
things that contributed to my mood early this...
1. I woke up on time for my 8:35 lab even after not being able to sleep, and wasn’t a zombie.
2. I have, by some really improbable and odd coincidence, the same unfair and unpredictable physics lab TA that I did last semester.
3. I’m published! Just in the school newspaper about a CSO performance of the Rite of Spring, but it feels good.
4. My Latin professor, who is awesome and a...
InstaPaper - this is going to change my... →
WIIT 88.9 or stream at this link, Sundays 7-8pm... →
Just did my first radio show and am not nervous enough now to tell people about it. Listen next week!
Sham. →
companionablesniffles:
wakingisbravery:
lieutenantsquiggles:
Spread the word now by reblogging this. This has to be stopped, so many people are putting false hope into something that, while it MAY help a few people, is nothing more than a fad.
This should be required reading for anyone wearing one of those stupid fucking t-shirts. Seriously.
This is really sad. I was really into TWLOHA...
so true. also, I'm reading the Fountainhead....
meaghano:
thebronzemedal:
I love when people talk about how a book is meaningful to them in some personal, specific way. I think at some point in our lives, about the point in which we start to be told that “I” has no place in our essays and our reports, we lose track of the fact that the axis our experiences pivot on is of course ourselves, and we should recall it can be just as valuable to...
Letters Home by Kevin Smokler →
companionablesniffles:
The letter is instead the writers’ form in reserve. John Barth writes them on weekends when taking a break from novels and published then in a collection called The Friday Book. Elizabeth Bishop was mad for the acts, writing up to forty letters a day in her prime, and still managed time to be U.S. Poet Laureate. For those whose creativity is writing, a letter gives them...
lyrics of the moment
“Here’s a hand to lay on your open palm today, as we go on drowning, down we go away. Darling, we go a-drowning, down we go away.”
“Do you wonder where the self resides? Is it in your heart or between your sides, and who will be the one who will decide its true location?” (and this whole song, really)
“Oh, my morning’s coming back, the whole...
said the chicago banking house to the boston...
ragbag:
Some time ago a Chicago banking house asked a Boston investment firm for a letter of recommendation about a young Bostonian they were thinking of employing. The Boston firm replied by outlining in enthusiastic detail the young man’s excellent First Family background. Several days later came a curt acknowledgment from Chicago. Unfortunately the material supplied was not exactly what they...
Long Exposure Photography →
Photography is something very interesting because it brings up the question of to what extent we can really replicate a moment, and who’s to say what is authentic and what isn’t? If someone takes a photo of someone or something (let’s say, the Eiffel Tower) and does nothing special with it, then it would be safe for another person to point at that picture and say, “That is...
intellectual snobbery
ladyinspain:
monicamelquiades:
ladyinspain:
monicamelquiades:
Why does this only continue in some of us? Is it supposed to be that way? What’s the verdict? Am I just being a snob by thinking that everyone should like learning?
That’s what’s being human, to me, more than anything else—that we have the capacity to be sparked and that there are so many ways for it to happen and so much time...
intellectual snobbery
ladyinspain:
monicamelquiades:
Why does this only continue in some of us? Is it supposed to be that way? What’s the verdict? Am I just being a snob by thinking that everyone should like learning?
(sorry I had to cut, your post + my answer got super long!)
You should read some of Vygotsky’s work, if you haven’t already. His whole developmental theory is centered on this idea that individual...
intellectual snobbery
These are thoughts I’ve been toying with for a while, but I’d really like others’ opinions. I’m sorry this is so poorly written.
I’ve always felt, especially personally, that the human objective is (or should be) to learn. There’s always been this sense in me that when I am exploring and expanding and finding out and ‘knowing’ and really using my...
I don't think there will be a flying car, which is... →
meaghano:
kids preview the next decade at that cross-section of adorable + tragic where you can’t go wrong.
adorable. I especially like the kid with the trombone case.
MAYBE I SHOULD JUST GO TO NORWAY THEN →
also interesting
7-16-08 A Joker-like character was orchestrating the deaths of all the people in a town and on top of a hill was a big glassy house. I wasn’t a character, just an observer. When their deaths were looming big numbers - referring to the order, counting down, in which they would die - would appear on their foreheads. They would suddenly see the numbers on their heads in a window reflection or...
I'm putting together a bunch of my dreams for a...
dream 11-10-08
A morbid dream. There’s another world, a sort of parallel universe. There’s a monarchy, a castle, a volleyball rivalry, I make out with someone from the other team. he’s not that attractive after all but look, someone likes me. There has been the mystery of people walking out of buildings and into invisible knives. The mayor’s (?) father, a victim. I’m...
haaahaha, Avatar →
Mmmm, grapefruit. Pass the sugar, please.
companionablesniffles:
It’s citrus season - that magical wintertime cultural phenomenon here in Phoenix that pits neighbor against neighbor in the unending war to do something, anything, with the abundance of fruits we all find ourselves dealing with.
When we moved in - as is true of every Phoenix dweller - we thought “hey, awesome! fresh fruit right outside our door!” But, as we discovered, it...
What is the importance of first impressions if,...
from a book called "House of God" by Samuel Shem
” ‘Nope. I’m telling you that the cure is the disease. The main source of illness in this world is the doctor’s own illness: his compulsion to try to cure and his fraudulent belief that he can. It ain’t easy to do nothing, now that society is telling everyone that the body is fundamentally flawed and about to self-destruct. People are afraid they’re on the verge...
ha →
meaghano:
re: twenty-ten
The National Association of Good Grammar - essentially a guy named Tom Torriglia and some friends who also paid attention in English class - say people have been mispronouncing the year for 10 years.
“NAGG is here to put everybody back on the correct path,” Torriglia said by phone from his home in San Francisco. “We lost the battle when we went from 1999 to 2000 - but...
A Review of the "He's Just Not That Into You"... →
thoughts?