September elimae
for your pleasure.
quote out of context
Only fools debate whether patently illegal programs “work” — only fools or those who have been legally implicated in designing the programs in the first place.
tweet of the day
I take back everything I said about rhythmic gymnastics
headline of the day
Man Arrested for Having Sex With Inflatable Raft
Ford Evos Concept
Need
my current desktop
He was a master of pattern recognition, the man who bangs a drum so large that it’s only beaten once every hundred years
Kevin Kelly highlights passages from Douglas Coupland’s mini-biography of Marshall McLuhan:
“Terror,” he went on to say, is the normal state of any oral society, for in it everything affects everything all the time…. In our long striving to recover for the Western world a unity of sensibility and of thought and feeling we have no more been prepared to accept the tribal consequences of such unity than we were ready for the fragmentation of the human psyche by print culture.
(thanks, Tim)
from the comments
I done tole y’all, this is a question beyond our scope. We’ll drive ourselves crazy trying to solve the whole strap-on, pump-up, pee-out situation.
Also, I pooped a starfish this morning, but it was missing one of its arms.
from the comments
This seems a good place to say I’ve been singing “Tyrone” ever since yesterday afternoon. Y’all should hear me. I’m singing it right now in my office.
I’m gettin tired of yo shit
You don’t never buy me nothin
from the comments
I’m pretty sure the Sears Catalog harkens to outhouses and the page you can do without. One would never wipe with a page that held your dream on it.
Slacker
I suspect I loved the film because I am one:
One of the extras on the DVD is a Linklater essay, “Slacker Culture”, that defines slackers as individuals who “pay little attention to labels or categories, especially if they feel themselves being included in the evaluation… Most slackers would deny being a slacker.”
Linklater discusses several issues, including work, education, politics, and the concept of the true call: Slackers feel the urgent personal obligation to make sure what they’re doing with [their time] is worthwhile. The “true call” can appear in a sudden flash or take decades to find, but the intention is to be constantly discovering your own path, what you truly love, and how to outwit everything that stands in your way to it. Most would scoff at the notion of daydreaming as productive activity, but slackers know that this is the place where all the new situations, narratives, and acts originate.
I’m still wandering, looking for the true call, but heaven knows I’ve spent enough times daydreaming in cafés to know it’s out there.
from the comments
There are as many Amandas as there are Michaels. We are a pluralistic union.
from the comments
My friend Ed’s family went on road trips every summer, and they camped. I recall Ed telling me that for a while his little brother, Tom, had a pit toilet fixation. Tom just ached to know what all was down there.
“But, Andrew, you’re an affable guy”
is what people say to me when I tell them just how much I honestly hate most people. For those who have stood before me confused by such statements, I present to you a wonderful illustration of why.
headline of the day, II
Ark. man in plane spots his home being burglarized
headline of the day
Lady Gaga Wore Prosthetic Penis at VMAs
Toilet Paper History: How America Convinced the World to Wipe
The first products designed specifically to wipe one’s nethers were aloe-infused sheets of manila hemp dispensed from Kleenex-like boxes. They were invented in 1857 by a New York entrepreneur named Joseph Gayetty, who claimed his sheets prevented hemorrhoids. Gayetty was so proud of his therapeutic bathroom paper that he had his name printed on each sheet. But his success was limited. Americans soon grew accustomed to wiping with the Sears Roebuck catalog, and they saw no need to spend money on something that came in the mail for free.
via @stevesilberman
Sweetpea
Flockers, I wanted to bring your attention to a Kickstart project to create short Western film called Sweetpea. One of the producers, Josh Anon, is a friend of mine and I wanted to try and help get the word out for him. They are a little over halfway to their goal with 15 days to go. If you can, please be a backer. I’d really like to see them get a chance to make this short.
Winning is winning no matter where you’re doing it
from the moderated comment spam
I am also commenting to make you be aware of what a really good experience my wife’s princess enjoyed visiting your blog.
I’m not a robot. I’m a unicorn.
Igor Labutov, Jason Yosinski, and Hod Lipson, at the Cornell Creative Machines Lab, videoed two chatbots talking to each other.
What happens when you let two bots have a conversation?
Unicorns and existentialism. That’s what happens.
1960 Plymouth XNR Concept
For a person who’s been interviewing people for the last seventy-five years, Jay Leno is a really poor interviewer, but the 1960 Plymouth XNR Concept is such an interesting looking car, and the renovation job is so good, it’s worth checking out.
from the comments
When I first saw this headline I instantly thought of the old guys you see in the South who have an ass belly and wear their slacks pulled up to their armpits.
