March 2011
8 posts
“Even at their most sacrilegious, Parker says, they never plan to inflict pain....”
– Why South Park’s Trey Parker and Matt Stone Now Say It’s ‘Wrong’ to Offend - The Hollywood Reporter
A random encounter on the bus today
Stranger (from behind me): How are you doin', mate?
Me: Good.
Stranger: Ever used the Internet?
Me: Uh.. yeah, a few times.
Stranger: I'm a subject on the Internet.
Me: A-what? I'm sorry?
Stranger: A subject. People like my jokes.
Me: Oh yeah?
Stranger: dub dub dub dot [random website name I'm kicking myself for not getting down properly] dot com
Me: Oh, that's cool. I'll check it out.
[I reach my stop and walk out in complete astonishment.]
A Dream Within A Dream
By Edgar Allan Poe
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow — You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within...
“What if intimacy is just a mode of behaviour that depends upon a certain kind of...”
– The Social Network, the End of Intimacy, and the Birth of Hacker Sensibility (via Instapaper)
José González – Heartbeats (cover)
“I don’t believe in God, or at least not in the one we’ve invented for ourselves...”
– Douglas Adams
“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
(via david)
February 2011
3 posts
“If anything, stories like Ms. Portman’s show that great success, like DNA, is...”
– Natalie Portman, Oscar Winner, Was Also a Precocious Scientist - NYTimes.com 