October 2011
4 posts
I just had one of those realizations which cascaded like a flood, causing me to reassess events and encounters farther and farther back into my past. A strange turn of perspective. But then, when your old theories and reality clash, it’s no good to rage against reality - it can only carry on solemnly operating in accordance to its own true ways.
nick·el·o·de·on/ˌnikəˈlōdēən/
Noun: A jukebox, originally one operated by the insertion of a nickel coin.
A movie theater with an admission fee of one nickel.
September 2011
5 posts
Impossible logic puzzle, #51
Biathlon: Skiing and shooting
Triathlon: Swimming, running and biking
Quadrathlon: ?
Met a sweet little black girl who told me her name and then proudly “I’m named after Lena Horne.” Here’s to honoring the good works of the past and continuing them through own.
Horne was long involved with the Civil Rights movement. In 1941, she sang at Cafe Society and worked with Paul Robeson. During World War II, when entertaining the troops for the USO, she refused to...
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are...”
Impermanence
On the drive out from Burning Man, reflecting on the lessons I’d experienced there, I wrote notes to myself. The first, most important lesson was “Impermanence.”
Immolation as a reminder of Impermanence
What would motivate people to create great works of beauty only to destroy them? Why would they place reminders of loved ones and their own past in a temple only to see them...
August 2011
2 posts
so much depends upon
a mac power charger
marked with scuffs
coiled beneath my window.
June 2011
1 post
“Fear is an emotion indispensable to survival - but antithetical to achievement.”
April 2011
2 posts
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Vocabulary Watch
weltschmerz: denotes the kind of feeling experienced by someone who understands that physical reality can never satisfy the demands of the mind (from the German, meaning world-pain or world-weariness)
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Vocabulary Watch
Horology: the art or science of measuring time
March 2011
9 posts
“Digital circuits are made from analog parts.”
– tonight’s fortune cookie
Rotten Tomatoes’ take on the Lincoln Lawyer leave me questioning my following of Rotten Tomatoes ratings. 100%, based on reviews filled with “perfectly average” “moderately entertaining” “a quintessential airport-novel kind of movie, possessing no great qualities or ambitions.” and so on. Really people, 100%?
Not that I was going to see it, but it...
“To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the...”
– ~Buddha
“Tears of magnanimity.”
““To preserve [our] independence, we must not let our rulers load us with...”
– Darkly Dreaming Jefferson
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“With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.”
– Desiderata
My weirdly OCD analysis of tonight's dinner
Two different sausages, each with two different toppings, different between and per sausage. Also yogurt and peach, both peach-flavored.
And thus marks my return.
January 2011
4 posts
1 tag
Vocabulary Watch
desultory: marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another
December 2010
11 posts
A modern communist state would have 80% of the population working as full-time bloggers.
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Solisarious
adj. Not serious
With tongue-in-cheek
The Atlantic mission statement, 1857
In politics, The Atlantic Monthly will be the organ of no party or clique, but will honestly endeavor to be the exponent of what its conductors believe to be the American idea. It will deal frankly with persons and with parties, endeavoring always to keep in view that moral element which transcends all persons and parties, and which alone makes the basis of a true and lasting prosperity. It will...
“I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via wetbehindthears)
“Q: This is where you live?
A: No. It’s just a room.”
November 2010
40 posts
Strange Spectrum
Grandiose Delusions
Meglomania
Grandiosity
Narcissism
Pride
Self-abnegation
Egolessness
Strange Spectrum
Mania
Hypomania
Hyperthymia
Happiness
Ahedonia
Sadness
Dysthymia
Minor Depression
Major Depression
Dance to this. Now. →
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Witnessing
Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love. In a modern economy it is impossible to seal oneself off from injustice.
If we have brains or courage, then we are blessed and called on not to frit these qualities away, standing agape at the ideas of others,...
