August 2008
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Chasing Sunsets
It’s sunset, and I’m on a bus That’s taking me ever farther From my home. The pastel-painted clouds Frame the road, a clear path Toward the future That I’ll follow forever. Quiet conversation drifting into sleep, My fellow travelers take relief in rest. A single muffled cell phone breaks the silence. The dark of a tunnel surrounds us, And the lights of passing cars Streak...
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Blessings
I did not find God again tonight, but I must have been close on Its trail, for as I walked in the mist tonight, I saw a saw-whet owl take prey from the path near Dascomb and fly to its perch. From my place on the path I watched while it finished its meal and preened.
Today was a beautiful day. I will endeavour to make tomorrow as beautiful.
I am a seeker.
I am a seeker. I seek that in the world which is beautiful, inexplicable, and uncertain. For the sake of simplicity, sometimes I call it God. It’s as good a name as any for something so difficult to explain. God is difficult to capture. It leaves clues and bread-crumb-trails behind it, ever inviting me to follow in its wake and seek its presence. I feel it near me all the time;...
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It's Raining in Love
Normally I hate Brautigan with a fiery passion, but I have to admit I rather like this one.
whimsicalities:
(I got this poem thanks to Tevi)
by Richard Brautigan
I don’t know what it is, but I distrust myself when I start to like a girl a lot. It makes me nervous. I don’t say the right things or perhaps I start to examine, evaluate, compute what I am saying. If I say, “Do you think...
“Linux is a pair of pants with no hem. You have to tailor it. Windows is a...”
– via dailymeh
No art tonight.
Too fucking exhausted.
“An engineer is nothing without a good reputation. Your reputation determines who...”
– Mike Lee’s response to being kicked out of the company he helped found. A real shame, by the way.
“Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous (and how the same...”
– by Frank O’Hara, with thanks to whimsicaliti.es
Art
Over the next few weeks, I’m going to need something new to focus on. Since I’ve ended the Widening Gyre project- yes, I know, the ending kind of blows, but I just had to get it over with; I may rewrite the whole thing someday- I’m going to need an artistic outlet that will hopefully push me a bit more to create more often.
This autumn, I’m going to be embarking on a...
“And for some reason, against all experience and expectation, it promises love:...”
– It would have been could still be have been wonderful.
“So I have this problem where you’re perfect.”
– overheard in Oberlin
“[The split infinitive] has long been used in literary and colloquial language....”
– eush:
George O Curme, A Grammar of the English Language, via Language Log (emphasis mine).
Ouch.
The avoidance of split infinitives is something that really annoys me, because it never looks natural and often sounds stilted. Besides, it often causes more confusion. Take ‘hopes to increase...
I Can Has Grammar? →
Little bit behind the times, but still: LOVE THIS.
I take a certain classist satisfaction in being served dinner by my freshman-year roommate, who is the son of a ranking diplomat. Spinach lasagna, please.
Mercury Instant Messenger →
Aside from the fact that Adium/Pidgin render it completely useless, no Java program should ever have a name that suggests speed.
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via fishy)
Magpies are self-aware →
You mean similar ways of understanding the world can arise from different brain structures?! Duh. Millions of sci-fi geeks around the world are laughing at you.
"Birds" for iPhoneOS →
A bird guide on my iPod? Don’t mind if I do!
“Five things that should be issued to every American on his or her 14th birthday:...”
– -5ives.com
Never had strong feelings about the Pixies, but the other four would be awesome.
“‘Can you believe that lots of people for reasons that are very sound to...”
– Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Piracy, Theft, Plagiarism
dailymeh:
Last week Slate ran an article by Jody Rosen called Dude, You Stole My Article. It did not detail the exploits of a young man in his early teens sneaking into Rosen’s house, picking the lock on his cupboard and running off with his manuscript, nor did it involve an armed assault in which the titular dude, tall and masked, pointed a gun to Rosen’s head and demanded his hard drive,...
I want to go to a foreign country and get lost in a celebration I don’t understand.
Who wants to go with me?
20 Questions We Should Be Asking Our Candidates →
If you’ve got friends in the media, why not push these in their directioon? And at the very least, please reblog this if you think he makes a good point.
And this is why I need OS X Server experience. →
“All the other girls here are stars—
You are the Northern Lights.
They try to...”
– Kathleen by Josh Ritter
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Ancient palace uncovered at Bennachie →
This is where I spent last summer.
“But as you open your mouth to bite her,
You remember the words of this...”
MobileChat 3.0 for iPhoneOS
t08:
File this one under “DOING IT RIGHT”. So long, Meebo.
“To answer your question as honestly as I can, I’ve wanted since I was very...”
– Ryan North (via whimsicalities)
