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January 31, 2012

What group of 800 American intellectuals would miss both the Democratic National Convention and the opening of the World Chess Championship to make the round trip to a point 900 miles out in the North Atlantic indistinguishable from any neighboring point?

savings bonds for urban outfitters

Iroko wood dust is known to be carcinogenic. (why???)

The Yetzer Reb would be the pub you’d open

writing well was getting what you want by groping blindly for something on the top shelf

The judge also noted the “callous indifference” of the people at the adjacent Apple Store who heard screams and cries for help but did nothing

silence and calm are the cutting edges of business

drinking so much coffee or doing so much coke you just stare at games of solitaire, trapped in assessment, without actually playing

the crashing sea-like rush of us as we are knocked flat, react, and corrugate into boredom, forever

Nyholm was passionately associated with industry all of his life.

jade, v. —To make a jade of (a horse); to exhaust or wear out by driving or working hard; to fatigue, weary, tire.…

2.2 Dull or sated by continual use or indulgence. 1631 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlew. (1641) 305 Former times were not so jaded to fashions as to esteeme nothing formall, but what was phantasticall. 1744 Armstrong Preserv. Health ii. 158 To spur beyond Its wiser will the jaded appetite. 1828 W. Sewell Oxf. Prize Ess. 39 Nature was tortured in every way to stimulate the jaded palate.

In a real way I feel like I’m just doing a scientific thing here. b.w.o analogy, think of the research done to make Coca-Cola. Someone realized that it would be much easier to make an essence, coke syrup, and just ship that to places where it would be carbonated. Same thing here, except I don’t want to reconstitute a drink. Making coke syrup solved the problem, and the solution is the syrup, not the glass of soda you can sell for a dollar fifty. These are syrups. You can mix them to make a soda.
Don’t make yr stuff reconstitute the world. Make It fall through the air like a ray of light into a block of ice

Chaos Monster (Anzu?) and Sun God (Marduk), p. 319, bas relief, Palace of Ashur Nasir Apal II (885-860BCE) at Nimrud. Austen Henry Layard - Monuments of Nineveh, Second Series, plate 19/87, J. Murray, 1853

The flight crew escape tunnel system was later removed following the completion of the Approach and Landing Tests (ALT) due to concerns over possible engine ingestion of an escaping crew member

Mercury at Quadrature

but what is labor? biological labor? cellular labor? genetic labor? necessary electrostatic spatial reorientation labor?

life is the phenomenon not explicable by continually more minute and fundamental forces

mind is the phenomenon not explicable.

Fernando Lamas: ‘It is better to look good than to feel good.’
I find myself entranced by the glittering wrongness of this statement

Fiorina “Fury” 161

the girl with the dragon tattoo as an almost perfect retelling/humorless theft of Twin Peaks

Via con Hashem

a wine bottle filled with iodine tincture

feeling foamy enthusiasm for something as you experience it is generally the prelude to a sour reassessment

Robert Lowell died of heart failure in a New York taxi on September 12, 1977. He was carrying Lucian Freud’s portrait of his wife with him and he clutched it as he died. or 23 years, 11 months and 31 days

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your left foot by my right foot,
shoulder to shoulder, all that jazz,
arm in arm, by the beautiful sea,
hum a little, Mr Bones.
—I saw nobody coming, so I went instead.

Sherrington’s story about seeing Waldeyer label a mounted Betz neuron as ‘das Denk-Organ’ (‘The Organ of Thought’) in an 1886 histology class. Sherrington going on to remember a student asking if a Betz cell tumor being dissected in the next class was also engaged in thinking.

POLONY

Q. Do you know where the milk is?
A. No.

—Michael Dummett’s sole interaction with Wittgenstein

Good evening, my name is Birgus Latro.

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