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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
6:58 pm	Ersatz ansatz. See also: Ágætis byrjun, anständigt början. ------ —The bard's noserag. A new art colour for our Irish poets: snotgreen. You can almost taste it, can't you? He mounted to the parapet again and gazed out over Dublin bay, his fair oakpale hair stirring slightly. —God, he said quietly. Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a grey sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton. Ah, Dedalus, the Greeks. I must teach you. You must read them in the original. Thalatta! Thalatta! She is our great sweet mother. Come and look. ( jamesjoycejamesjoycejamesjoyce ) Current Music: Shellac - Watch Song ~Comment~
Sunday, July 19th, 2009
3:44 pm	Does that make the dimension of the coffee Hilbert space non-integral? Half decaf, half regular coffee is a lot like Schrodinger's cat, except that its wave function doesn't collapse when you drink it. It stays in the same superposition of states. Simultaneously decaf and regular. ( Schrodinger's blend ) ~Comment~
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
8:37 pm	I am unbearably sweaty. It is nearly 100 degrees and it is 8:30. I took a shower this morning, and I should probably take another. However, this has not dampened my mood. Why? Because I currently owe Wells Fargo & Co a total of ZERO DOLLARS. Who's under Wells Fargo's thumb? Not me! Current Music: Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms ~1 Comment |Comment~
Sunday, July 12th, 2009
4:20 pm	Eunuchs only. "And when they continued asking him, he lifted himself up and said unto them, 'He that is without stones among you, let him throw the first sin at her.'" ~7 Comments |Comment~
Friday, June 26th, 2009
8:21 pm	Schopenhauer and his goofy hair hate Hegel and they hate you too. "The height of audacity in serving up pure nonsense, in stringing together senseless and extravagant mazes of words, such as had been only previously known in madhouses, was finally reached in Hegel, and became the instrument of the most barefaced, general mystification that has ever taken place, with a result which will appear fabulous to posterity, as a monument to German stupidity." - Arthur Schopenhauer On a related note, Ray Bradbury hates the internet. Current Music: Gospel - What Means of Witchery | Powered by Last.fm ~Comment~
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
5:35 pm	At first glance I thought he was Tom Sellick. "Blood and Thunder" by Mastodon leads really well into "Going To Bangor" by The Mountain Goats. Also, I don't think I've ever really liked Jars of Clay, but "Goodbye, Goodnight" is a good song. Why does David Hilbert have this hat on? I do not understand it. Current Music: Bangor and Thunder - The Mastodon Goats ~Comment~
Monday, June 8th, 2009
1:18 am	Why does James Joyce have an eyepatch? I do not understand it. Current Music: The Dodos ~1 Comment |Comment~
Saturday, June 6th, 2009
3:22 pm	Oh man oh man oh man. "Presumably, this selectionally introduced contextual feature is, apparently, determined by a descriptive fact. Thus the natural general principle that will subsume this case is not subject to a parasitic gap construction. Conversely, the earlier discussion of deviance may remedy and, at the same time, eliminate the system of base rules exclusive of the lexicon. I suggested that these results would follow from the assumption that the appearance of parasitic gaps in domains relatively inaccessible to ordinary extraction is necessary to impose an interpretation on the levels of acceptability from fairly high (eg (99a)) to virtual gibberish (eg (98d)). If the position of the trace in (99c) were only relatively inaccessible to movement, a descriptively adequate grammar appears to correlate rather closely with a general convention regarding the forms of the grammar." - Noam Chomskybot This is why computers exist: to randomly generate paragraphs and paragraphs of nonsense. ~Comment~
Monday, June 1st, 2009
4:15 pm	Calvin Harris is incompetent. "Bought a packet of scissors that you need a pair of scissors in order to open the packet of scissors I just bought. Do I buy another pair? about 13 hours ago from web Its ok I got them open about 12 hours ago from web" 1 hour to open a packet of scissors. This is the extent of my internet experience. Pirate music, listen to music, check email, check grades, Calvin Harris's twitter, post about it on livejournal. --- Krystie bought me a briefcase to use as a pedal board. I put some velcro in it, drilled holes in the sides with a corkscrew for cords to go through. All that's left to do is choose a lock combination. I'm thinking either the first six digits of φ, π, or the first 6 Fibonacci numbers. I want to buy a small light to put at the top of it. Buuut I'm not sure where I could find one. Maybe I'll just make one from RadioShack parts. Current Music: Patrick Watson - huracan ~Comment~
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
11:43 pm	I think twitter is among the dumbest things on the internet, but Calvin Harris has one. So I can't begrudge it too much. http://twitter.com/calvinharris "I'M IN A GOOD MOOD TODAY I MIGHT EVEN EAT FOUR BOWLS OF CORNFLAKES FOUR BOWLS AND WITH NO MILK I LOVE GOOD MOODS" "I need to learn not to eat too many cornflakes" "I FEEL LIKE BEYONCE'S DAD" "I FEEL MORE LIKE BEYONCE'S DAD THAN EVER BEFORE" That chap's got a new track out too. "I'm Not Alone." Listen to it. Lord knows Mike is. ~Comment~
Sunday, May 24th, 2009
6:22 pm	Through The Fire and the Flames Yesterday my head was on fire. Watch out for barbecues. Current Music: Giraffes? Giraffes! - I Am S/H(im)e[r] As You Am S/H(im)e[r] As You Are Me And We Am I And I Are All ~Comment~
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
5:22 pm	"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of the writer. This is completely understood about poetry or fiction, but it is too seldom realized about books of fact. And yet the impulse which drives a man to poetry will send another man into the tide pools and force him to try to report what he finds there. Why is an expedition to Tibet undertaken, or a sea bottom dredged? Why do men, sitting at the microscope, examine the calcareous plates of a sea-cucumber, and, finding a new arrangement and number, feel an exaltation and give the new species a name, and write about it possessively? It would be good to know the impulse truly, not to be confused by the 'services to science' platitudes or the other little mazes in which we entice our minds so that they will not know what we are doing." - The Log From The Sea of Cortez Steinbeck is pretty tight. I would type up the whole introduction, because it's probably my favorite opening to any book I've read. But instead I'll give you a link and save your screen space. The Log From The Sea of Cortez Current Music: Tera Melos - Melody 2 | Powered by Last.fm ~2 Comments |Comment~
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
1:41 am	By the big locked gates of the building, leaning with his shoulder against them, stood a little man wrapped in a gray soldier's greatcoat and wearing a brass Achilles helmet. With drowsy eyes, coldly, he glanced sidelong at the approaching Svidrigailov. ... The two of them, Svidrigailov and Achilles, studied each other silently for awhile. Achilles finally thought it out of order for a man who was not drunk to be standing there in front of him, three steps away, staring at him point-blank and saying nothing. "Zo vat do you vant here?" he said, still without moving or changing his position. "Nothing, brother. Good morning!" Svidrigailov replied. "It's de wrong place." "I'm off to foreign lands, brother." "To foreign lands?" "To America." "America?" Svidrigailov took out the revolver and cocked it. Achilles raised his eyebrows. "Zo vat's dis, a choke? It's de wrong place!" "But why is it the wrong place?" "Because it's de wrong place!" "Well never mind, brother. It's a good place. If they start asking you, just tell them he went to America." He put the revolver to his right temple. "Oi, dat's not allowed, it's de wrong place!" Achilles roused himself, his pupils widening more and more. Svidrigailov pulled the trigger. Current Music: Miles Davis - Two Bass Hit ~Comment~
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
5:42 pm	"The Rise and Fall of Steve Reich" How do you like your humor? As dry as Foucault's noggin? As post-modern as toast? Cat and Girl. Do it. WEBCOMICS. WEEEBCOOOMICS. For a better you. For a better tomorrow. For a better procrastination. ~Comment~
Friday, May 1st, 2009
12:42 am	RE: "Shame On A Nigga" by Wu-Tang Clan So Raekwon's verse, right? I have, for a few years, thought that he says "So when you see me on the real, formin' like Voltron remember I got teeth like a baby seal." No. That is wrong. I just learned that today. He says "I got deep like a Navy Seal." ~1 Comment |Comment~
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
1:25 am	rly srl? orly? osrly? Life gets extremely surreal sometimes. A lot of the time. Almost all the time, actually. Really. Surreally. Surly. --- So good. O Surly. Surreal. So real? Minotaur ~1 Comment |Comment~
Monday, March 16th, 2009
5:22 pm	Charles Babbage hates music and he hates you too. Charles Babbage (1791-1871,) originator of the programmable computer, once wrote a letter to Alfred Tennyson concerning his poem "The Vision of Sin." "In your otherwise beautiful poem, one verse reads, Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born. ... If this were true, the population of the world would be at a standstill. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death. I would suggest [that the next version of your poem should read]: Every moment dies a man, Every moment 1 1/16 is born. Strictly speaking, the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line, but I believe the figure 1 1/16 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry." ~3 Comments |Comment~
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
12:50 pm	( Midterms jibber jabber ) --- Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall Aleph-null bottles of beer You take one down, pass it around Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall Repeat. ~2 Comments |Comment~
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
7:17 pm	"There is an important sequence of numbers called "the moments of the Riemann zeta function." Although we know abstractly how to define it, mathematicians have had great difficulty explicitly calculating the numbers in the sequence. We have known since the 1920s that the first two numbers are 1 and 2, but it wasn't until a few years ago that mathematicians conjectured that the third number in the sequence may be 42—a figure greatly significant to those well-versed in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." - sauce --- Also Laplace transforms are really cool. Current Music: Andrew Bird - Banking on a Myth | Powered by Last.fm ~Comment~
Monday, February 9th, 2009
12:52 am	Writer's Block: Half a Glass Do you consider yourself an optimist, a pessimist, or a realist? View 500 Answers Idealist. Realism can go to hell. Am I right, Georgie? --- ATTN: Everyone SUBJ: Peppers are delicious. I like them in: -stiry fry -breakfast burritos -pasta -my stomach ~1 Comment |Comment~