December 2009
“The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: Life is a story about...”
– Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
“If you turn on the keypad volume on your cell phone and type 989797899897787987,...”
– (via fuckyeahthebeatles) (via elmtree) (via prudenceagnes) (via constellation) (via flickflickflicker)
Star Wars Weather Forecast →
Sorta like thefuckingweather, but much less angry, and much more geeky.
3 tags
1 tag
4 tags
Verses from the Interstate, II
In the autumn night,
stars shine like clearest diamonds—
the tears of dragons.
2 tags
3 tags
Verses from the Interstate
Nov. 25, 2009; somewhere on I-5
Dreams roam
Like wild beasts
Through the vast expanses of the night
Conjured up
By sleepers’ whimsy
Dancers in the silver light.
—
Living in the Bay Area and going to school in Los Angeles as I do, I spend a lot of time hurtling up and down Interstate 5. Much of this time is spent looking out the window as miles upon miles of featureless,...
3 tags
The Secret Lives of Amazon's Elves (Gizmodo) →
If Amazon is Santa, 400 folks living in RVs outside the Coffeyville, Kansas fulfillment center this winter are the elves.
2 tags
3 tags
2 tags
1 tag
2 tags
4 tags
2 tags
2 tags
3 tags
Female Ducks Have Evolved A Vagina Dentata (io9) →
Duck sex is far more interesting than it has any right to be… and it appears the two sexes are involved in an arms race over their genitalia, with males evolving new attacks and the females defenses.
2 tags
Drunken women stabbed boy, 13, in row over Xbox... →
And they say video games make kids violent.
Restaurants Use Menu Psychology to Entice Diners... →
Some restaurants use what researchers call decoys. For example, they may place a really expensive item at the top of the menu, so that other dishes look more reasonably priced; research shows that diners tend to order neither the most nor least expensive items, drifting toward the middle. Or restaurants might play up a profitable dish by using more appetizing adjectives and placing it next to a...
1 tag
Once more unto the breach
I’ve been meaning to get back into blogging, but other things have kept coming up and preventing me from really doing it. Not that I really ever blog about anything important anyway.
I’ve had this tumblr here for a little while and have mostly been using it as a linkroll to post random and interesting things I run across around the net. Tumblr’s pretty cool and fits my...
