October 2010
16 posts
“Steampunk is what happens when goths discover brown.”
– Cherie Priest
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What comes up when you Google "coffee" →
I was wondering what would come up if I Googled “coffee”.
Wikipedia article on coffee came up first, and Starbucks comes up second.
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“I’m relatively sure the Zeitgeist can be etermined by paying attention to...”
– Me
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“He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.”
– Cayce Pollard
Bootstrapping Stormpulse →
wensing:
So you want to start a startup? Great. You are here:
Unfortunately, unlike the path our hero takes from left to right, there’s no formula for how you’re going to get to the princess. By definition, bootstrapping is an any-way-you-can-make-it-happen adventure. And here’s what it feels like:
“Life`s the longest picture. You`re ever gonna take. Love`s the longest promise....”
– -Ben Harper
Both Sides of the Gun (disc 2).
Engraved Invitation (track 3).
God's Debris
Scott Adams is a really cool guy, as evidenced by his being the creator of the very funny comic strip Dilbert, and his writing of the book God’s Debris, which is not a comic book. It is indeed a book book.
In addition to being a book book, it is a eBook that you can get for $0.00. All you need to do is download it.
The Wikipedia article on the book does a good job of summing it...
My dad and I discuss the finer points of baseball
Dad: Remember the seven ways to get to first base?
Me: Of course. You put on Dire Straits and get in the back seat...
Dad: Ha ha you know what I mean.
Me: OK fine. Base hit, walk, error, hit by a pitch, dropped third strike, ball lodges in umpire's mask—
Dad: What?
Me: Seriously, I think I read that somewhere.
Dad: How could that possibly happen?
Me: Maybe he's wearing one of those clay Mummenschanz masks.
Dad: You know, I bet that's actually covered in the official rules.
Me: Of course it is. But if a situation like that comes up in a playoff game, you better have someone on the field who's seen it before.
Dad: Yeah, otherwise the ump would have to stop the game and get out his rulebook and look up "Mummenschanz mask, play interference by."
Me: It's in the "Mime and Pageantry" section.
On parenting precocious children.
Setting the stage: A father is talking to his son Oskar (who is the main character in this book). Oskar has just read the first chapter of A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, and he is feeling depressed about how relatively insignificant his life is in teh grand grand scheme of things. Oskar asks his father if he can think of a soultion to this problem…
“Which...
“The truth is, everyone you meet will hurt you at one point or another. You just...”
– Unknown (via littlemiss) (via papertissue) (via tensions) (via loveyourchaos)
Laconic Wit.
I’m teaching my world history students about Philip II of Macadon today, and soon I’ll be teaching about Alexander the Great.
On most days I arrive to work eary so that I can re-fresh / re-learn about the people, places, and things that I plan to teach about that day. I do some Google searches, read the Wikipedia, and read relvant sections of various books I keep in my classroom. ...
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a...”
– Albert Einstein (via kari-shma)
Just thinking out loud here...
I wish that Windows live writer supported Tumblr. For real. It would be super awesome.
About three weeks ago I had to write something for a class, but I was having lots of trouble getting going. I was sure that after I got going I would “find my rythem” or whatever and the writing would just come easy, so I started to do some free writing. I started to write about a guy who had...
Short term memeory dump #2
God damn it. I found more fucking stuff. If only I had more time.
1. A cool Mark Twain book http://www.sterlingpublishing.com/catalog?isbn=9781402758690
2. Logicomic http://www.logicomix.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=53
Short term memory dump
This is a list of stuff that I really want to take some time and check out, but I don’t have the time right now.
I hope that if I write it down here that I will remember it.
1. MagCloud http://magcloud.com/ (Print on demand mags.)
2. Small Books // Big Ideas series http://henryseneyee.blogspot.com/search?q=big+ideas
3. A cool book blog. http://www.casualoptimist.com/
4. The Fallen...
“If you are ever under the influence of ANYTHING (pause for effect) what ever you...”
– Jason (at a bar)
September 2009
5 posts
“We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. ...”
– Milan Kundera. (The Unbearable Lightness of Being).