Through the Brier |
Born and raised in Cincinnati and schooled in Bloomington, I now live in Salem with my beautiful and long suffering wife, fast-growing son, and a golden retriever who patently refuses to do so.
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notes"At least half of all writing involves just sitting and staring into space. Letting your brain out to hunt down ideas, bringing them back all warm and bloody between its teeth."Warren Ellis (via)
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Sometimes an overextended dad needs a diversion guaranteed—guaranfreakingteed—to keep his kid occupied for a few minutes.
Play the music and stare into the enigmatic eye of the piranhamoose.
Works every time.
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When did they let Willie Aames into The Velvet Underground?
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hangoeuvre
noun /hæŋœ’vrə/
The sum of an inebriate’s lifework.
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40 years ago a 38-year-old man took mankind’s first step onto another world.
I’m 38, and I’ll consider it a grand accomplishment if I can get my son to stop picking his nose and handing me the contents.
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"He’s gone. Hard to believe. He was a brilliant man — a wondrous combination of literary skill, honesty, humor and the occasional burst of pure heavenly bullshit. In other words, an Irishman."
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notes"Made the boys laugh so hard at dinner that one vomited up part of his hamburger. That’s fatherhood, right there."I have a new milestone to achieve.
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notes Time to Boldly Go Once MoreI think matthewb sums it up nicely:
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, achieved on less processing power than a cellphone, Buzz Aldrin thinks further afield in The Washington Post.
To infinity and beyond, Buzz.
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notes"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."Leonardo da Vinci (via amplequotes)
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![Just one of many examples of yoga mastery at
Yoga for Drunks.
I probably shouldn’t be laughing but…come on! How can you not?
[via April Buchheit]](http://21.media.tumblr.com/no2eY2Xzfq0z0hefvUo5PqXho1_500.jpg)
Just one of many examples of yoga mastery at Yoga for Drunks.
I probably shouldn’t be laughing but…come on! How can you not?
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411. At the ballpark, never start the wave. But don't let it die.
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The Synthetic Web
In a recent thread on the TiddlyWeb Google group, I stated:
My opinion is that stuff, i.e. information, should be...
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Album cover
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We now extract album art from uploaded music!
Developers can even add this art to Tumblr themes with:
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Words That We, As An Internet, Have Overused And Are No Longer Permitted To Use
- media
- brand
- trend (as a verb, incl. “trending”)
- invite (as a...
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The Pencil
There is an old joke, or urban myth if you look at it another way, that goes something like this:
When NASA first started sending up...
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The hundred best lines from all five seasons of HBO’s The Wire. (via Ana Samways)
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Matthew shares a photo of his old Converse Jack Purcells. Well-worn and lovely, they tell the story of a life lived without reservation. Some...
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solar prominence animation by Alan Friedman
(via Lights in the Dark)
