November 2011
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With a certain currently popular Black Eyed Peas song playing in the background, my son cocked his head to listen for a bit and asked, “Is he saying, I Just Can’t Get It Up?”
July 2011
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“We’re the kind of species that needs a frontier — for fundamental...”
– Carl Sagan
March 2011
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February 2011
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January 2011
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“Read. Read lots of different things. Read the King James Bible, and Dickens, and...”
– Tim Radford
November 2010
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October 2010
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“It will be there when the icecaps melt and the cities drown, when humanity...”
– Kieran Healy on Emacs.
August 2010
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March 2010
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WatchThere is nothing quite so cheering as an infectious laugh. (via)
January 2010
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November 2009
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“At least half of all writing involves just sitting and staring into space....”
– Warren Ellis (via)
September 2009
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Sometimes an overextended dad needs a diversion...
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July 2009
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hangoeuvre
noun /hæŋœ’vrə/
The sum of an inebriate’s lifework.
“He’s gone. Hard to believe. He was a brilliant man — a wondrous...”
– Dave Barry on Frank McCourt
“Made the boys laugh so hard at dinner that one vomited up part of his hamburger....”
– Greg Knauss
I have a new milestone to achieve.
Time to Boldly Go Once More →
I 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.
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci (via amplequotes)
June 2009
3 posts
“This way the web isn’t just this thing on the side that only appears in...”
– Brent Simmons in The age of hybrid apps
May 2009
4 posts
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”
– Franz Kafka
“If I die, who will teach the children about Bo Diddley?”
– Dr. Johnny Fever
Parenting Milestone: Today our son shoplifted his first toy.
Next up: The Pigeon Drop.
April 2009
2 posts
The Wisdom of Two-Year Olds
Me: You want to go inside?
He: We can't.
Me: No? Why not?
He: We have to see everything.
March 2009
5 posts
wordsyouhavetogoogleeverytime.com →
For distorte it’s redoubtable. For me it’s:
nonplussed
Googling it often won’t help you, though. In an dastardly scheme to nonplus the rest of the world, we Americans have begun to use the word in a sense nearly opposite its formal meaning.
“Writing is as vain as it gets. And if you don’t publish your stuff, it doesn’t...”
– Oliver Reichenstein
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February 2009
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This One's Mostly for Me
This morning my son and I were quietly sitting on the floor playing together. He was sitting in my lap, the hair of the back of his head brushing lightly against my lips, as we searched out and fit the pieces of a puzzle together. He stopped of a sudden, twisted around in place, put his arms around my neck, kissed my cheek and said, “I love you.”
It wasn’t the first time....
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Resolution #7,153
Never—and I mean ever—play Scrabble against Mills.
“We are programmed to be interrupted. We get an adrenalin jolt when orienting to...”
– Maggie Jackson in an interview with Wired. (via)
This is one of a number of terrific observations about interruptions
and their debilitating effects on thinking, relating, and creativity.
I would hang this on the outside of my door…if I had an office. With
a door. That closed.
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Six Degrees of Warren Ellis
I noticed an pop in site traffic today, all from Google searches for a quote from The Wire that I posted months ago after the final episode. It mystified me until I came across Warren Ellis’ tweet.
January 2009
12 posts
WatchThis series of Old Jews Telling Jokes linked to by Boing Boing is freaking hysterical. The bumper music is the key to the whole schtick.
You Letter, You Letter, You Bet
Here’s a fun exercise from Dave Pell: Where does
each letter of the alphabet take you when entered singly into
Firefox’s auto-completing location bar (aka the AwesomeBar)? Here
are mine, skipping anything work-related which, sadly, accounts for
many top spots:
A — My Google Analytics Dashboard
(I’m not sure why I bother, there are four of you and I know where you
all...
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“First of all, how good lookin’ is my wife?”
– President Barack H. Obama
That’s a pretty good way to start things off, I’d say.
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“[…] do they bubble and froth and slobber and cream with joy at language?...”
– Stephen Fry
I finally got around to listening to the Stephen Fry podcast regarding language and pedantry that has been circling the sprawl. It’s glorious.
If the three of you haven’t listened yet, go and do so.