April 2010
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1 April passed and it was not a joke
Still, part of me hoped that you, your family and friends could be capable of pulling the blanket over our eyes.
Probably I’ve stopped being in shock. Which would explain why the distance, memories and aborted plans are a genuine hurt. I’m happy when I think of the person who’s commented on my facebook, tumblr and twitter these past two years, a voice I’ve hit...
March 2010
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Axelrod’s strategies for promoting cooperation: - Enlarge the shadow of the future - Teach reciprocity - Insist on no more than equity - Respond quickly to provocation - Cultivate reputation as reciprocator
Doesn’t “reciprocator” sound like a dinosaur.
“the mind does not tell the heart to explain itself, just as the heart does not...”
– via Jin.
“It was dark now, and as we dipped under a little bridge I put my arm around...”
– The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
“The cure for anything is salt water, sweat, tears, or the sea.”
– Isak Dinesen virginiawoolf (via elloelle)
“The resilience life demands of us: how many times we have to overcome despair,...”
– Alain de Botton ineedyouso (via elloelle)
Really random thoughts. Like there’s a big gumball machine of thoughts, with a hole in the bottom so the gumballs endlessly spill out even when I haven’t put a coin in. Mostly while I’m dual-processing something I’m less interested in, too. Focus is not my strong suit though I want to change that. Anyway, you know. I’ve been thinking about L.L and the thought is...
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"Ideal education would provide everyone with this...
“…One of the Korean’s favorite college memories is this: The Korean was friends with a charismatic deaf person who ended up serving as the Executive Vice President of the student government that oversees over 30,000 students. His friend was such a socially adept smooth talker that, other than the hearing aid on his ears and his pitchless voice typical of a deaf person, the Korean...
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“In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only...”
– After Dark, Haruki Murakami.
February 2010
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Just another Friday class
Female student: Prof, what does the difference in arrow size represent?
Professor: Hm, gee, I don't know.
Male student: ...I think it's penis size.
Professor: Penis size...
-awkward silence-
Male student: Yeah we do have the biggest penises when compared to chimpanzees, gorillas, etc.
Professor: I read somewhere that maybe the big penis allows a guy to scoop out his competitors' sperm.
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Categorization exercises
-Pictures of footballs, pingpong balls, basketballs, hockey puts etc.-
A: They are all round... With some exceptions.
B: They have no corners.
A, B and rest of class: -stumped-
P: What do dogs have in common?
A: They have noses.
B: A is afraid of all of them.
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January 2010
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against my wiring
From an evolutionary perspective, liking you is a struggle against millions of years of adaptive instincts:
You are not
Able to invest (no income; probably in debt due to tuition fees)
Willing to invest (out of your allowance, 0% goes to me)
Able to physically protect (we are not in the same landmass)
Good parenting skills (no desire for reproduction, only reproductive recreation)
Of social...
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“Based on information gathered from thousands of nappers and would-be-nappers,...”
“By the way at four leaves they have these little three buns of different...”
– Jul 23, 2005.
What? Where can I get these buns today?!
SpongeBob: "I'll just sneak over to Patrick's house when he's asleep and sneak a look inside his secret box! Good idea, huh, Gary?"
Gary: "Meo-No."
SpongeBob: "Ah, what do you know? You're just a snail!"
SpongeBob: "Too bad Opposite Day only comes once a year, huh Gary"
Gary: "Meow."
SpongeBob: "Gary! Where's your holiday spirit?"
Gary: "Woof!"
SpongeBob: "Gary, you can talk?"
Gary: "In a dream, we are not tethered by earthly limitations"
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found an old blog
From Dec 4, 2005:
“Today whilst I waited till my heels and toes froze, a man fell out of a truck and stuck up a notice: MISSING: Samantha ____. I stored the face away in my mind, for a day when I might see her but be unable to remember the number to call. With you it is different. I have your number, in fact I have two, but no mental imprint by which to pick you out from hordes upon hordes...
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Human League - Don’t You Want Me
Ever since...
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“When ‘majority’ is used in the abstract, for example ‘a...”
– HUZZAH! Bridget solves the dilemma of whether to use plural or singular.
Speaking of which, a dilemma is when you are faced with choices. A quandary on the other hand is when all the choices are compelling. Eff yeah grammarian tumblring.
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H: Status is what someone else confers onto you. Dignity is something you give yourself.
Me: Status used in another way-- it's something that two or more people agree upon. Whereas commitment is something you get yourself to agree to.
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Me: I smile at dogs and apologize to tables that I bump into.
Nigel: Tables can go fuck themselves. They've got legs; they should move.
Dogs are awesome though.
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A term like ‘go to bed’: to use it as a euphemism for sex is really rather quaint. So innocuous, you could use it on a child (“Go to bed, you’ve got school in the morning”) or yourself at the end of a long and asexual day (“So tired, I’m gonna go to bed”). It’s an expression of calm and rest, nothing frisky, no moans or clawing or rhythmic...
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“Singapore is like a warm bath. You sink in, slit your wrists, your lifeblood...”
– via National Geographic
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“Yield to temptation, it may never pass your way again.”
– Robert A Heinlein (via Pei)
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“He first saw her at a bus-stop near his home. It was drizzling at the time, and against the dusky watercolour outlines of buildings and the smudged haloes of streetlamps her figure stood out like something resisting the erasure of the world. He eyed her from one end of the bus stop, noticing how the light from a poster-ad outlined her profile. At times, she would look in his direction,...
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“Theyjust… openedanew… petro… chemicalplant…? If we use it… The gahmen’s...”
– Boggling speech patterns at a lecture on environmental non-profits
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The Whitest Boy Alive - 1517
“Freedom is a...
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Leon: You don't believe me? Google "balls hamburger" or something.
Me: "Balls Hamburger" is a restaurant in Dallas.
Leon: HAHAHAHAHA.
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In future I will equip myself with a tablespoon.
K: L and I were arguing about how much there is--
Me: --it isn't a tablespoon!
K: Well she said it was a teaspoon.
Me: It's definitely more than that.
K: She said it was an overflowing teaspoon, a Very overflowing teaspoon, and I told her no way, it's much more than that and we agreed to agree that it was roughly a level tablespoon.
Me: A level tablespoon is still way too little, and how can it be a teaspoon, it's a liquid, this isn't sugar we're talking about!
K: That's what I said but it differs all the time.
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THE KOREAN
…has posted the best of the worst emails he received in 2009.
via Friends of Type
As a result I exercised my stomach muscles for the first time in 2010.
Dear Korean, When people think “white” they tend to picture an American, or at least, a westerner. But obviously people can be Asian-American, or African-American. So that said, I was wondering if a white person born in,...
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Dark Mean - Happy Banjo
I’d like to be all...
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Bon Iver - The Wolves (Act I and II)
Music for...