January 2011
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Dear The Future: I’m coming for you and...
WatchKitten has discovered my mouse cursor.
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Dana Colley of Morphine with bassist/songwriter...
Watchsexartandpolitics:
the show with zefrank | 07-11-06
I hope Ze knows that this episode continues to inspire me after all these years.
Hungry Hippo licks Aunt JEmima [sic] writes, “Are you ever gonna break into song again? Are you running out of ideas?” Hungry Hippo licks Aunt JEmima, that’s a good question. I run out of ideas every day! Each day I live in mortal fear that I’ve used up the last...
“Evidently bad methodology isn’t worth criticising, just so long as you agree...”
– Peter Watts, “Extraordinary Claims” on Daryl Bem’s controversial paper “Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect” [PDF]
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“State your intentions, Muse. I know you’re there.
Dead bards who pined...”
– Neal Stephenson - Invocation A sonnet to open his 3 volume 3000+ page novel The Baroque Cycle, One I’ve taking to think of as Historical Science Fiction, as it deals with the implications of a scientific worldview, as does SF at it’s best, and interposes a narrator and fictional...
“Though traditionally cosmetic surgery has been used to make patients look...”
– The year-zero face: is 36 the perfect age for a woman?
The reason why 24-year-olds like Miss Lohan look 36. I’d call it disturbing, but you’ve already thought it.
— From SF.
What a fun paragraph this must have been to write:
She had a forehead so taut and shiny it looked like an iPhone 4. Her...
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Finally got to Sherry in ER.
writer-a:
She’s doing OK, hooked up to IV, probable Pneumonia. And she looks great, even in a mask.
ETA: impressive operation here at NY Presbyterian. Crazy, bustling ER populated with characters, mostly the staff - good people. Being here, it’s so impressive that they’re here, day after day.
If NY Presbyterian is 1/2 the hospital it was in 1986 when the neonatal ward there saved my life...
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“Friend,
many and many a dream is mere confusion,
a cobweb of no consequence at...”
– Penelope speaks to Odysseus about a dream foretelling his return.
Homer, Odyssey, Book XIX. Trans. Fitzgerald.
[Wikipedia’s entry on the passage.]
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