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A rose by any other name...
I'm feeling rather annoyed at names. They're these little shortcuts we use to fill in for the entirety of entities and in that sense they're quite useful. They just seem a bit of a disappointment, these intimate fragments that roll around in the mouth, leaving nothing but a bad taste behind. I want there to be something powerful and meaningful in a ( Read more... ) -
Seeing objects in the Fourth Dimension
The Fourth Dimension Blows My Mind!
http://www.dimensions-math.org/Dim_regarder_E_E.htm
Kaboom.
Brainy Nerdgasms Ensue. -
Circus Contraption
I just got back from seeing Circus Contraption. Twas an excellent and wonderful show full of Love Love Love.. We've got it in Slop Buckets ( Read more... ) -
Darth Vader Reads the Fredrick Douglas 4th of July Speech.
I'm listening to the July 4th, 2008 Democracy Now! podcast and I'm getting a nerdy thrill hearing Vader read Fredrick Douglas's 4th of July speech. Yes, yes. I know it's not _actually_ Vader, but the talented actor who plays him. My mind, can't help but imagine Vader, clad in leather and tech, rimmed in light and discussing freedom and what the ( Read more... ) -
page 123, fifth sentence.
Participating in a meme.
The fifth sentence on page 123 of Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli: "Three of us had meatloaf."
Your turn to pick up any book you have on hand and blog about s5,p123. GO! -
Ann Coulter vs Lincoln!
I've been getting a lot of right wing articles passed to me from my mom via her lovely husband. Usually these are unaccompanied by any comments or critique. I end up getting all riled up and sending her rebuttals to as many of the points as possible and pointing her to proper sources of information but it's rather frustrating to feel like I'm ( Read more... ) -
Pi Day
Oh, and Happy Pi Day. -
Crazy Audio Tools.
Celemony_ looks incredibly cool. Just wanted you to know that. -
Political for a bit
I've been hearing a lot about Ferraro's statements and it seems to me the situation is this: She said something stupid that came from absorbing some white victimhood mindset. People then called her on it and instead of realizing her error and apologizing for the statement and it's implications, she dug in and tried to defend herself by further ( Read more... )