November 2010
“Like the yin/yang symbol, you see. Here I am, and here she is, and here we are....”
– Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
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“Sorry Geoff - that’s Permenter!”
– Lindstifa, thanks a ton. And Julie too, thanks. No really, thanks. That’s just terrific… PERMENTER!
“One obvious problem with the SweetFarts philosophy of education is that it is...”
– How to Raise Boys That Read (As Much as Girls Do): Not With Gross-Out Books and Video Game Bribes - WSJ.com
Couldn’t agree more. “The SweetFarts philosophy” has no place in education. I mean, for crying out loud, it’s a couples counseling approach. (h/t Will Dawson)
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Crazier than thou
When I was a young art student, 20 years ago, in Chicago, I figured out that the way to avoid being approached by lunatics and would-be muggers while walking alone at night was to preemptively out-crazy them. So, if I found myself alone in a sketchy neighborhood (hello, South Loop, c. 1990) at night and felt my Spidey Senses tingling (blow me, you know exactly what I mean), I’d mutter, yell,...
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Encyclopedias & The Force
Anyone with 20 bucks can walk into a bookstore and buy one of those big compendium books that catalog and describe, in great detail, every character, home world, space ship, weapon, galaxy and so on in the Star Wars universe. Anyone brash enough can steal one. Anyone patient enough can read one in its entirety. And anyone whose memory is strong enough can learn every factoid contained in one of...
eoporto asked: Let me guess, in your version, there was no mustache.
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Watchinstapaper:
(Direct .m4v video link, much higher quality, 31 MB)
This is incredible.
The latest video in Apple’s official iPhone Quick Tips Podcast, entitled “Offline Reading”, features Instapaper. (The “Offline Reading” episode hasn’t shown up on the website or in the listing in the iTunes Store, but it’s there and downloads successfully if you subscribe to the podcast in iTunes.)
This is...
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Tick
I stand in the dark kitchen at 5:35 AM, grinding the coffee, putting it in quotes, then pulling it back out, spent. Boiling water, pouring water. Making a bloom, watching it rise and set. Wondering about the differences between steam and gas. Between habits and hoods. Between being lost and exploring.
“Writing isn’t typing,” I used to hear, and I wonder what happened to people...
Be Here Now
Julie and I are, well, you know,...
“Imagine an exotic laser, which creates a steady outgoing beam of negative...”
– Negative Energy, Wormholes and Warp Drive
Sure, just ship it off to “some distant corner of the universe,” where it can be someone else’s problem. Way to be part of the solution, Science.
(via Instapaper)
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WatchAfter voting today, I drove to work and this is what my commute to work looked like. Notice the beautiful post-voting sunlight. Ahhhh, participatory government.
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