February 2012
7 posts
“Deep down, all the while, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor...”
– Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (via sunrec)
“You can’t say no to me because it’s such a relief to have love again and to lie...”
– Sarah Kane, Crave (via arreter)
Uneconomics →
Economic crises are opportunities to challenge orthodox economic ideas. But might the current crisis also be an opportunity to challenge the power of orthodox economics and economists more generally?
Last week I sat next to a tutor in Political Geography at dinner at an Oxford college. He told me that when his students first come to him, they all believe that human behaviour is simply that of...
It’s been said that photographs are precious...
“That’s what makes me sad: life is so different from books.”
– Pierrot le Fou (1965)
“And I want to play hide-and-seek and give you my clothes and tell you I like...”
– Sarah Kane, Crave (via arreter)
What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful... →
Scientists’ greatest pleasure comes from theories that derive the solution to some deep puzzle from a small set of simple principles in a surprising way. These explanations are called “beautiful” or “elegant”. Historical examples are Kepler’s explanation of complex planetary motions as simple ellipses, Bohr’s explanation of the periodic table of the...
January 2012
16 posts
Hammers and Strings (A Lullaby) Jack’s...
Solitude and Leadership →
So solitude can mean introspection, it can mean the concentration of focused work, and it can mean sustained reading. All of these help you to know yourself better. But there’s one more thing I’m going to include as a form of solitude, and it will seem counterintuitive: friendship. Of course friendship is the opposite of solitude; it means being with other people. But I’m talking about one kind...
lucentshadow:
Your Love is Black | Kaskade
The...
““I administer them,” replied the businessman. “I count them...”
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince
Slow Dancing In A Burning Room John Mayer
...
“I imagine the feelings of two people meeting again after many years. In the past...”
– Milan Kundera, Ignorance (via sunrec)
“In that book which is my memory,
On the first page of the chapter that is the...”
– Dante Alighieri (via accidentalism)
The Case of the Speluncean Explorers →
Selected excerpts from Professor of Law at Duke University James Boyle’s article Legal Realism and the Social Contract:
Fuller himself exhibited a lifelong relationship of attraction to and repulsion from realist doctrines. This profound ambivalence is nowhere as clearly indicated as in his famous set of hypothetical cases set in Newgarth, of which the ruse of the Speluncean Explorers is...
New Year's Eve.
Some highlights from last night in SF with Charlene and co.
- Discovered a liking for Stoli - Found the sweetest Chinese restaurant owner in the world - Rocked super cheesy paper New Year’s hats from said restaurant - Raged at the Muni N-Judah for taking forever and a day to arrive - Initiated obnoxious boisterous lively conversations with strangers on said Muni, including one with a Josh...
New Years End God Is An Astronaut
December 2011
14 posts
“If someone told me to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages...”
– Albert Camus (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
Good food, mediocre drinks and intimate...
Christmas means different things to each person, and maybe Christmas to me is only an excuse to get together with old friends and indulge in all these so very important things easily forgotten in the daily grind, but that’s okay. I’m glad I have you all in my life.
Regardless of whatever vicissitudes the future will bring, we’ll have had tonight. I thank each and every one of...
“I have always, essentially, been waiting.
Waiting to become something else,...”
– Shauna Niequist, Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life (via arreter)
The Line →
Traudl Junge passed away in 2002. The later decades of her life were marked by depression and painful self-confrontation as she at last was faced with trying to justify her admitted willful ignorance. She was not a wicked person, not a National Socialist, and she had never directly harmed another human being — she had simply done what had been asked of her. And this was the worst thing of...
One Year, Six Months Yellowcard
Sew this up...
windsdays:
We Might As Well Be Strangers //...
Starting Over →
sunrec:
In his famous Lectures on Physics, Richard Feynman presented this interesting speculation:
“If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish...
Nothing At All [Instrumental] Rob Dougan
November 2011
6 posts
Nothing Without You Vienna Teng
Call my name...
“In the sunset of disillusion, everything is illuminated by the aura of...”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory...”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“It was a recapitulation of time, a hymn to their common past, a sentimental...”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Pieces Red
I’ve come undone But you make...
October 2011
5 posts
Brothers on a Hotel Bed Death Cab for Cutie
On...
Words cannot express how proud I am of my little...
charleneeee:
2:37 AM.
I just climbed the pirate ship at treasure island. Fucking hopped the fence, crawled through bushes, climbed over rocks, and jumped onto that fucking ship. Half of my pbros are fucked up & sleeping it off.
I’m fucking ready for round two. Tattoo parlor & strip club next!
Shout out to Jeremy fucking Chen, devious BAMF, inspiring me to fucking greatness.
Your Own Disaster Taking Back Sunday
And I dare...
“And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the...”
– Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
September 2011
4 posts
In The Distance Fading God Is An Astronaut
