March 2010
February 2010
Things you don’t care to know series - Things I have read, since about July, with a rating attached to each.
Future Greats and Heartbreaks, Gare Joyce ** Bluebeard, Kurt Vonnegut **** Whale Music, Paul Quarrington **** Sointula, Bill Gaston ** Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell *** Bech, John Updike *** King Leary, Paul Quarrington *** Larry’s Party, Carol Shields *** jPod, Douglas Coupland...
To Various Persons Talked to All at Once You have helped hold me together. I’d like you to be still. Stop talking or doing anything else for a minute. No. Please. For three minutes, maybe five minutes. Tell me which walk to take over the hill. Is there a bridge there? Will I want company? Tell me about the old people who built the bridge. What is “the Japanese economy”? Where did...
Chubby Rain. - What? Chubby Rain. Tell them why. - The aliens come to Earth in raindrops. - Yeah! Making the raindrops chubby.
Entry from Chuck Klosterman’s list of...
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simonf:
(via hellobluebrown) Teaming up with other wolves to kill bears online is why I signed up, but I stay for the high quality music.
Username: Simonwolf
a sweet new episode. new park to explore, new bears to kill, new fur colours to acquire when power levelling…
“A number of proposed interfaces — most famously, Apple’s failed OpenDoc initiative, shut down shortly after the company acquired NeXT — promised to reverse the priorities: our desktops would prioritize the tasks over the tools, the documents over the applications.”
“The weird thing about the iPad is that it has landed us 180 degrees from where we thought we were heading....
List of humorous units of measurement
Helen of Troy (from the Iliad) is widely known as “the face that launched a thousand ships”. Thus, 1 millihelen is the amount of beauty needed to launch a single ship. (via Wikipedia)
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Death and the Zebras We were 157 zebras galloping down the prached plain, I rain behind zebra 24, 25, and 26, ahead of 61 and 62 and suddenly we were overtaken with a jump by 118 and 119, both of them shouting river, river and 25, very happy, repeated river, river, and suddenly 130 reached us running, shouting, very happy, river, river, and 25 took a left turn ahead of 24 and 26 and suddenly I saw...
All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landings there.
the Beach Boys, Feel Flows