February 2012
4 posts
January 2012
12 posts
There are only so many days in the week. What would happen if there were more? What if all days were in the same week? What if there were no weeks, no months, no years, no evidence of the taxonomic scalpel?
I don’t know, except we’d have to say stuff like, “Looks like someone’s got a case of the today’s.”
Taxonomy is a tool whose application we’ve...
You guys lament for a younger, freer internet but I used to write all the time back then so I guess what I’m saying is caveat Hannibal Lecter or shit I forget how to use words.
So I’m having maxilofacial surgery tomorrow which I’m told–by my own bad self–entitles me to sit on my ass imagining the painkillers swimming through my veins and pancreas and all the other painkillery parts while playing video games and complaining about politicians and how we don’t have cable.
Side B, indeed.
I made the bold move to disentangle myself from the overabundance of interesting things on the internet. I have an ifttt.com recipe that pushes new RSS items to Instapaper. Instapaper will then send those items and any others I add to my Kindle once a week. I am using Birdfeed to write tweets, and Flipboard’s Cover Stories to catch the good stuff from Twitter, Hacker News, and Tumblr....
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These are effectively the posts I posted that I looked at one time. But what the hell.
My BEST posts of 2011
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December 2011
4 posts
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
3 posts
September 2011
2 posts
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August 2011
18 posts
“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic...”
– Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (via 1187hunterwasser)
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Surly Bikes Blog - Some answers to just about any... →
“Really fast people are frustrating, but they make you faster. When you get faster, you might frustrate someone else.”
epicstratton:
This is fantastic.
If you think your bike looks good, it does.
If you like the way your bike rides, it’s an awesome bike.
You don’t need to spend a million dollars to have a great bike, but if you do spend a million dollars and know what you want...
Selling Our Rabbit
buymyrabbit:
This is a blue 2-door hatchback. We are the only owners, and have taken care of it. We have adored this car. Upon learning that we were selling, our eight-year-old proclaimed, “But the Rabbit has memories.” We’d prefer to keep it, our lifestyle just doesn’t fit a Rabbit right now.
http://www.miltonglaser.com/pages/milton/essays/es3... →
“It doesn’t matter.”
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“Just last month, the International Program on the State of the Ocean (IPSO) — a...”
– Climate Change and Sustainable Seafood (via crookedindifference)
This is the oven my husband fixed! I'm happy to...
I am the fixer! And the flesh wound is mine to cherish!
delawareschool:
Taken at Home
Morning Rise with Mahi Mahi and Mushrooms
I ATE THIS AND IT WAS GOOD.
delawareschool:
Taken at Home
The Transformation of Michele Bachmann →
I know where my vote’s going. To Mexico.
Bachmann belongs to a generation of Christian conservatives whose views have been shaped by institutions, tracts, and leaders not commonly known to secular Americans, or even to most Christians. Her campaign is going to be a conversation about a set of beliefs more extreme than those of any American politician of her stature, including Sarah...
Rob Delaney: Bought some US stocks →
robdelaney:
I just bought some shares in an index fund that tracks the Wilshire 5000, which means I just bought shares in the 5000 largest American companies. I did this because I wished to take substantive action immediately upon learning of Standard & Poor’s downgrade of US credit. Standard & Poor’s, and to…
July 2011
4 posts
Ella
Six years ago today, my youngest little person was born. Elizabeth Maxwell Black was born to a tough life, and made her hard way through what would likely have been the toughest three months of it.
One of the pictures I most-often think of is of a little girl in a bouncy, reclined but not lazily so. She had her most mature expression, and I always imagine she was telling me, “It’ll...
Masterpiece: →
For those to whom I’ve recommended the PS2 game Ico, a comprehensive exploration in answer to “Why?”
At the dawn of the PlayStation 2 era, a relatively obscure first-party game called Ico was launched with little fanfare. Sales were tepid. But while everyone else was busy playing Gran Turismo and Tekken, word started to spread among enthusiasts. Ico went from an unknown game to...
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
5 posts
Anthropic Principle
My wife got new tires put on my bike.
I had a flat. The shop fixed it.
I had a flat on the other tire.
I purchased a tube and tire wrenches.
While changing the tube, I realized I had a broken spoke.
I bought three spokes and a spoke wrench.
I found that I didn’t have a tool to remove my freewheel.
I bought that tool.
I found that I didn’t have a wrench to fit the freewheel removal...