March 2009
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On Boredom
Over two thousand years ago, the Library at Alexandria held hundreds of thousands of texts. Many of them were probably copies, but even so, the Library earned its capital letter by being hundreds of times the size of its contemporaries.
Imagine what it was like to live in Alexandria at that time. To live in the educated capital of the world, a cosmopolitan city where East met West and every...
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“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in...”
– Albert Einstein
-via leadneophyte
Realisations
In the face of years of required papers and tooth-pulling reading responses, I had forgotten how truly enjoyable it is to wield words and build stories line by line.
I think it’s time to start writing again.
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“It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue,...”
– Henry David Thoreau
-via affremblequotes
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“I know you are waiting
And I know that it is not for me
But I’m here and...”
– Kathleen, by Josh Ritter
I think I’m finishing up Studies in Eschatology tonight. Just in time to give it a really good listen on the flight home.
Trying to do what's right
Angel: I'm sorry. Buffy... you know how much I love you. It kills me to say this.
Buffy: Then don't. Who are you to tell me what's right for me? You think I haven't thought about this?
Angel: Have you? Rationally?
Buffy: No. Of course not. I'm just some swooning little school girl, right?
Angel: I'm trying to do what's right here. I'm trying to think with my head instead of my heart.
-Buffy The Vampire Slayer, 'The Prom'
The Wayfarer →
I’ve decided to resurrect my old Wordpress blog to give me somewhere to post anything too long for Tumblr and not newsy enough for The Commentariat. My first post, a review of my experience at San Francisco’s Gold Club, is now up. Expect more in the near future.
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“Evolved individuals know that people who are not intuitive can be dangerous to...”
– Lao Tzu
-via affremblequotes
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“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
– Lemony Snicket (via merricat, via sleepanddream)
Yet another reason to carry around my iPod Touch (with Kindle, Stanza, and Classics).
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“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a...”
– Thomas Jefferson (via emilyelisabeth, rachelhotchkiss)
Oh, Thomas. I always did like what you had to say.
-via jacquelynn
Seriously, is this real documentation that TJ liked bacon?
-via 86400
I would have reblogged this directly from Jacquelynn, but I just liked 86400’s addition too much...
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My reaction to a group of harbor seals:
“That is a terrible method of locomotion. You should all be ashamed.”
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Out Here All Night by Damone
Summer’s...
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“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There...”
– Jawaharial Nehru
-via lorenrochelle
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One By One All Day by The Shins
You were no...
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“[Medea] told them she could turn an old ram into a young ram by cutting up the...”
– Pelias on Wikipedia.
KIDS! Don’t try this at home!
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So this is tumblr.
bluetangerine:
Hooray, a new opportunity to plaster unimportant things across the internet!
Expect nonsense.
Welcome aboard, Becky! Everyone else, keep an eye on bluetangerine for some awesome photography. And, presumably, nonsense. :-P
“…is going to go commune with nature … and she’s bringing her pruning shears.”
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I think there’s something seriously wrong with our culture if this is really how people think about nature. (quotation courtesy of a friend’s Facebook status)
-via jacquelynn
Wow. This sounds like something the gutsy heroine of a B horror movie says when she finds out that the killer has...
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“…is going to go commune with nature … and she’s bringing her pruning shears.”
– I think there’s something seriously wrong with our culture if this is really how people think about nature. (quotation courtesy of a friend’s Facebook status)
-via jacquelynn
Wow. This sounds like something the gutsy heroine of a B horror movie says when she finds out that the killer has been a...
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“Whatever in this world one has to say, there is a word, and just one word, to...”
– Guy de Maupassant
-via jacquelynn on wordsweneed
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Girl Inform Me by The Shins
But your lips when we...
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The Commentariat →
My new blog, complete with first post on my vision of Apple’s theoretical touchscreen ‘netbook’. Everything but the title and the text of that first post is still in flux, so… be gentle.
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“Some people fancy themselves as being “creative”, or ”creative-types” because...”
– Steve Furtick, via Joshua Blankenship
I need to get on this.
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