November 2011
5 posts
Father Rollins preaching the truth
The Column! Just the Ticket: The news, as I read it anyway, is not good, and while I cannot alter the facts, I can control my listening and reading environment. (Via Readability)
Warren Ellis on The Near Future Of Pop
The Near Future Of Pop:
Not that my sixteen year old daughter knows anything about that. The thing about an early-stage networked culture where everything is available on demand means that you have to know about it to demand it. It’s why companies like last.fm, and most social networks, have always put “music discovery” towards the top of their priorities. They know that common culture has been...
October 2011
6 posts
SJ
I have no interest in reading the authorized Steve Jobs biography at this moment.
I know a lot of geeks and personalities in the Apple world will be tweeting/blogging/talking about it, but I’m going to wait awhile longer for the perfect, idealized image of Steve to live in my head before I humanize him through the words of Mr. Isaacson.
I Was No Longer Afraid to Die. I Was Now Afraid...
I Was No Longer Afraid to Die. I Was Now Afraid Not to Die.: “When you have a partner, someone you love, who’s your age, with the same terms of reference, and you are together for decades, you really do understand each other,” he says. “Your child is never going to be understood in that way.”
That forced unfairness scares the hell out of me
(Via Readability)
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“Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be...”
– - A bit of writing advice from Neil Gaiman. (via faramirs)
I said it on the Nerdist Podcast, and I believe it. It’s as true for any area of the arts, not just writing. Perhaps it’s true for life.
(via neil-gaiman)
I really needed to hear something like this.
“The fact is when the United States spends $2 billion a week in Afghanistan and...”
– David Atkins at Hullabaloo (via wilwheaton)
September 2011
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August 2011
6 posts
Are Republicans at war with reality? →
wilwheaton:
So here’s what I learned watching Thursday night’s Republican debate:
States’ rights should rule the day, unless you’re gay.
Small government is the rule unless a rapist impregnates his victim.
Loyalty oaths should be the new normal.
Ten-to-one spending cuts to tax increases is an ideologically unacceptable compromise.
And refusing to raise the debt ceiling is a stand for...
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Elliott
we move too fast to remember
but sometimes you remember something beautiful:
July 2011
4 posts
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The Original Soul Gem
Remember this one?
One of the best 1st Edition AD&D modules1. A true challenge for the likes of “Discotheque”.
Would love to find a new copy cheaper than four tanks of gas ↩
The motives of Bradley Manning →
wilwheaton:
The morality at play in the Manning persecution is mangled beyond belief. It’s perfectly conventional wisdom that the war in Iraq was an act of profoundly unjust destruction, yet normal, psychologically healthy people are expected to passively accept that there should be no consequences for those responsible (a well-intentioned policy mistake), while one of the very few people to...
June 2011
5 posts
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Some quick notes about Dallas
In a week we’ll be headed south for the sanctity capital of America. At least that’s how it will feel when we cross from Oklahoma into Texas until arriving in Dallas and it’s surprisingly normal metropolitan environs. After spending six days there last week, I did notice a few things, though:
Stereotypes
Christianity
HUGE sections in used books stores tempered with a...
May 2011
6 posts
NASA Announces Results of Epic Space-Time... →
…and the best analogy they come up with for the distortion of said space-time is “like a heavy person sitting in the middle of a trampoline”?
No longer penniless.
I got $26.00 out of this old guy, plus a few of those whacky Canadian loonies and toonies.
More than paid for the initial investment at a Norwich, CT dollar store.
April 2011
10 posts
sometimes language cant even read the music of...
time travel:
I sit here wide awake and completely consumed by Ghostwritten as the entire building begins its daily 5 AM rattling.
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Leon Lederman
Leon Lederman. Genius, Nobel laureate, funny Jewish guy.
He knows more about neutrinos than I can ever hope to know about…anything.
And at 86 years old, he sat on the corner of West 34th and 8th to answer your science questions.
Mr. Lederman, add “My Hero” to your already considerable list of accomplishments.
Those Dancing Days
Swedish New Soul Indie Power Pop
(with a sick drummer to boot)
This kind of stuff makes me cringe when confronted with the state of American pop music.
If only the majority of offerings forced down the throats of musically impressionable youth were this good…
Goooooooooooooooals.
Things I have to get done in the next few weeks:
Finish reading Pynchon’s V.
Pass the Perl cert.
Write research paper on disarming world’s nuclear weapon stockpile.
Purge and sell before the move.
There. Now get to it.