March 2010
41 posts
February 2010
46 posts
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I just watched a pro-robot propaganda ad by Honda...
and am again frightened by the passing of time.
Why does Clap Your Hands Say Yeah feel both recent...
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All my life I thought it had to be either the...
so I’ve always used backspace. But hell, why not both?
You can erase backwards or forwards. It’s ingenious. I was so blinded by comfort and habit before. Now I see the light.
People really can change for the better.
This also may be some metaphor for life. I’m not sure yet because I have to finish rewriting my lab report. There’s no time for philosophy in science!
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Rachael!
I would like to document each and every historical instance of my exclaimed name.
I Get a Kick Out of You
My story is much too sad to be told, But practically ev’rything leaves me totally cold The only exception I know is the case When I’m out on a quiet spree Fighting vainly the old ennui And I suddenly turn and see Your fabulous face. I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn’t thrill me at all, So tell me why should it be true That I get a kick out of you? Some...
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The plan is to start looking for jobs right out of school, to become militant, impersonal, and absorbed. I could sell my car in Florida and start paying off my loans as soon as possible. I would continue to be responsible.
But I’m sitting here thinking that maybe I don’t have to. Maybe I could get my car and use it to go wherever I want, finally abandon the need for this laptop (no...
Abel Meeropol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-21) →
Nina Simone (15)
Sarah Vaughan (10)
Jad Abumrad & Robert Krulwich (9)
Charlie Parker (8)
Ella Fitzgerald (8)
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WatchThis is more about the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon than it is arachibutyrophobia.
Watchthedailywhat:
Lights Out: I’m not entirely sure what I just watched, but I’m pretty sure I am now with child.
[macelodeon.]
Gee willikers! I’m going to find time to watch this frame by frame one day.
Shark-Riding on the Simpsons
Young Navy Grandpa: Hey boys, these sharks can't bite us if we're on their backs!
Navy Guy #1: Yeah, it's like riding the Cyclone back at Coney Island!
Navy Guy #2: Whoa! It's like riding a dust devil back in Yuma, like I read about in a book back in Boston!
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-14) →
Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire (25)
The Black Keys (17)
Jad Abumrad & Robert Krulwich (13)
The Stooges (11)
Billie Holiday (9)
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Pet frog name ideas
Spencer and Morris
Morris and Lucy
Skylar and Periwinkle
George and Meredith
Cathy and Edith
Olga and Gaylord
Smith and Wesson
Adia and Cornflake
Rob Emmanuel and George Clinton
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SG VIII
“We’re going to the cape,” she said, rather than hi or hello, as she walked through my open door and into my apartment. In one hand she had an unopened bottle of Jim Beam inside a crumpled paper bag and in the other she held two shot glasses together with her pointer and middle fingers.
One glass had a fading Celtics logo while the other had the symbol for the Florida Seminoles....
Don’t worry, be happy.
No really, I insist.
“Nancy Grows Up” by Tony Schwartz
He...
Danny Kaye and the Andrew Sisters - Civilization
found videos = !?!omglolz!? →
Grown So Ugly - The Black Keys
I got up this morning Put on my shoes Tied my shoes
Went to the mirror But I combed my hair I made a move Know what to do Tried to break and run Baby this aint me, baby this aint me Grown so ugly, grown so ugly Don’t even know myself Don’t even know myself Left Angola, 1964 Walking down the street Knocking for my baby, now My baby come out and ask me who I am
I say honey, Honey...
The Very Important Sneetches
“Belly stars are no longer in style,” said McBean. “What you need is a trip through my Star-Off Machine. This wondrous contraption will take OFF your stars so you won’t look like Sneetches that have them on thars.” And that handy machine working very precisely Removed all the stars from their tummies quite nicely. Then, with snoots in the air, they paraded about. And they opened their beaks and...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-7) →
Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire (41)
DeVotchKa (7)
Andrew Bird (7)
Violent Femmes (6)
Crystal Castles (6)
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“Poor old Pierrot Somepeople, what an unfortunate name!”
– Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire
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Forced swim test
I’m knee-deep in writing a research report about using the forced swim test paradigm to liken observations of learned helplessness in rats to depression in human beings.
Forced swim test (FST): You put a rat or mouse in a cylinder of water, filled high enough so that his tail can’t touch the bottom but low enough so that he can’t escape out of the top opening. Then you measure...
“Police in Germany say that a woman watching the sunset on a webcam spotted a man...”
– Seth Meyers
“This is all some terrible machine, where only the expected passes through.”
– A.H.W.O.S.G.
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Patchwork
- “If you can’t write your research article then think of it as a word puzzle. What arrangement of jargon would most resemble sound scientific inquiry?”
- Albert Einstein’s son Eduard was studying to be a psychiatrist but was struck with an onset of schizophrenia at the age of twenty. He spent much of his life institutionalized.
- Our perception of the world is radically...
“The tigers have found me and I do not care.”
– Charles Bukowski (via emilaaaine)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-31) →
DeVotchKa (22)
Vashti Bunyan (16)
Elliott Smith (11)
The Tallest Man on Earth (10)
Beirut (7)
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