February 2010
3 posts
January 2010
6 posts
“i haven’t actually taken classes with him, but the few encounters,...”
i'm a horse
k: you're the horse
silly
me: what?
i'm a horse?
omnivore's dilemma
our world has always been one of production and consumption, and more recently we’ve made it one of mass-production and mass-consumption. meat, agriculture, electronics, plastic everywhere! but what about the intangibles, like information?
on the metaphorical food chain of the tubes, where do you put wikipedia/nyt/etc? tweets, blogs, yelp check-ins, diggs, aardvark/quora questions…...
pink is the new black
i’ve tinkered with themes & css to produce what lies before your eyes at this very moment. i’m not all that happy with it, but it’s an improvement over the penguin one which was a little bit too serious for me. if i wanted to write a super ditzy post, wouldn’t it look funny against a penguin edition theme (that i associate with actual literature?) ? it would be...
my favorite things
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens; Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens; Brown paper packages tied up with strings; Are these a few of my favorite things?
perhaps more accurately: caffeinated or sugary items, like coffee, milk tea, boba, ice cream, ice cream bars, and cheesecake. various rides, eg piggy back rides, car rides, bus rides, train rides. not plane rides though. ...
with no wifi, no phone, and no company
in east of eden, steinbeck describes the moment at which parents fall from super-hero to sub-prime human in their children’s eyes. i hope you remember the allusion because east of eden is an excellent book, and this section was particularly memorable for me. the fall is something along the lines of devastating, perhaps shattering the integrity of many a child’s outlook on life (if...