February 2012
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January 2012
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“They claim that the major breakthroughs will come with bigger and faster...”
– Chris Crawford, The Art of Computer Game Design: Reflections of a Master Game Designer, (Berkley, CA: Osborne/McGraw Hill, 1984), 105.
Megabytes of RAM? I remember those days…
December 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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August 2011
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“This is one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been.
This is a song...”
– The Mountain Goats
July 2011
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Turning Writers Into Motherfucking Rock Stars →
via Neil Gaiman
“Dude. Did you hear? Christopher Moore has this weird fight club he has set up on an oil rig off-shore. He makes other writers fight coked-up mandrills with latex walrus dongs. This shit’s on Youtube.”
Things that bother me
The subject of practical religion rarely comes up in mixed company, and usually in regards to homosexuality (at least in my conservative corner of the world). This is an important topic, and I feel like we should be looking for common ground; at least with a few people.
The problem (as I see it) is not whether you believe or you don’t (I don’t) but what you do with it.
If you...
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June 2011
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May 2011
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WatchHerman Dune “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” from Jon Hamm
April 2011
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No magic sky wizard required.
What do I celebrate on Easter?
Ideally the same things as every other day; the opportunity to explore the universe and share it with friends.
Sometimes I forget how wonderful the world can be, and it’s good to have a day to remember.
(That and a tasty meal. Mmmm ham.)
I’m at Coral Gables (Saugatuck, MI)
“Bloody Marys and race awards”
March 2011
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“You shouldn’t regret that a poet is a drunk, instead you should regret...”
– Oscar Wilde
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On the dead.
It is not so easy to please the dead.
— Pär Lagerkvist, Barabbas, trans. Alan Blair, with a forward by Lucien Maury, and with a letter by André Gide (New York: Random House, 1951), 91.
Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook? Against what? There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.
—...
February 2011
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“…the chemicals in your head are LYING TO YOU! You can’t count on your own...”
– Hannelore, Questionable Content #1856. And yet, I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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“…the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts, they kill children.”
– Bill Gates. Ever since he left Microsoft, I like him a little more every day.
January 2011
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December 2010
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“When authorities can’t get what they want by working within the law, the right...”
– Wikileaks and the Long Haul « Clay Shirky (via opensoul)
WatchThe Gretch Who Saved the War on Christmas
November 2010
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October 2010
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September 2010
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We’re flawed because we want so much more. We’re ruined because we get these things and wish for what we had.
—Don Draper, Mad Men Season 4, Episode 8 The Summer Man
The origin of suffering, as a noble truth, is this: It is the craving that produces renewal of being accompanied by enjoyment and lust, and enjoying this and that; in other words, craving for sensual desires,...
August 2010
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July 2010
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June 2010
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May 2010
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just 22 percent of survey respondents experience... →
The more you know.
April 2010
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