January 2012
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“For who can suppose that God’s eternal act, seen from within, would be...”
– C.S. Lewis, Miracles
November 2011
9 posts
Okkervil River posts free holiday mixtape →
crumbler:
Featuring five covers of songs I’ve never heard before!
andrewmcclain:
the park (feist cover) by bon...
On America's Next Top Model
Max: Who got voted off this week?
Tim: Alexandria!
Aubry: Alexandria!
Tim: *frat snap* Beat you! ...Probably shouldn't frat snap after that.
“It is possible to pursue innocence as hounds pursue hares: single-mindedly,...”
– Annie Dillard (via sarahneff)
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”-Matthew5:8
October 2011
5 posts
Rain or people?
Seattle or New York?
Watchptbruiser:
Song of this Week: “Farther Along” by Josh Garrels
September 2011
9 posts
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I just hiccoughed (or hiccuped).
In medicine it is known as synchronous diaphragmatic flutter (SDF), or singultus, from the Latin singult, “the act of catching one’s breath while sobbing”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiccup
I'd rather be working for something than waiting... →
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Old Habits- Jeff Pianki
The gift of a truly...
August 2011
8 posts
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The Truth Wears Off →
Although many scientific ideas generate conflicting results and suffer from falling effect sizes, they continue to get cited in the textbooks and drive standard medical practice. Why? Because these ideas seem true. Because they make sense. Because we can’t bear to let them go. And this is why the decline effect is so troubling. Not because it reveals the human fallibility of science, in which...
Standard's standards.
Length- A meter (m) is the distance traveled by light in a vaccum during a time interval of 1/299792458 s.
Time- A second (s) is the duration of 9129631770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium-133 atom.
Physics is kind of neat so far.
Hey Cree,
Thanks for making me laugh at the most unlikely, sometimes inappropriate, and always wonderful times, and for making me smile each time you cross my mind.
You being on this earth is one of my favorite things about it, and I’m glad we have today to celebrate a BRILLIANT! thing like you.
I will probably love you forever.
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The Forrest Gump Sountrack sometimes makes me feel...
“The process of living seems to consist in coming to realise truths so ancient...”
– C.S. Lewis, from a letter to Dom Bede Griffiths OSB
July 2011
5 posts
Just finished my last available practice test.
Must hold on to information until tomorrow, 2pm. Then, my rationed synapses will empty of OChem and fill with all the knowledge I have been suppressing. My name. Social function. How to drive a car. Tomorrow will be nice.
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Dear all invitations to everything ever,
No.
Tree of Life was unbelievably awesome.
Also, since I just committed myself to it on fb, Tim Nissen is unbelievably awesome, and it’s nice that he started living 20 years ago today.
Watchjsl33zy:
Why hasn’t this happened to me yet
Favorite 90s movie. Jordan, I fear following you may up my reblog spamming about 9000%.
June 2011
4 posts
“When you run make sure you run to something and not away from.”
– The Avett Bros, “The Weight of Lies” (via timnissen)
My Fair Lady has been my favorite movie since when...
Eliza Dolittle: But I can get along without you. Don't you think I can't!
Prof. Henry Higgins: I know you can. I told you, you could. You've never wondered, I suppose, whether...whether I could get along without you?
Eliza Dolittle: Don't you try to get around me. You'll have to.
Prof. Henry Higgins: So I can, without you or any soul on earth. I shall miss you, Eliza. I've learned something from your idiotic notions. I confess that humbly and gratefully.
Eliza Dolittle: Well, you have my voice on your gramophone. When you feel lonely without me you can turn it on. It has no feelings to hurt.
Prof. Henry Higgins: Well, I can't turn your soul on.
When you ask your friend about their answers after...
dementorsinmypub:
If you answered the same:
If you answered differently:
normally the second one for me ahahahah
This is straight up for Tim, and has caused me to completely sacrifice the non-.gif-reblogger standard to which I previously held myself.
The Infinite Ends.
Last night I finished Infinite Jest, or, the moniker I maintained it in my thoughts over the last 400 pages or so, “that damn book.”
I cede that my vocabulary is in a consequential state of small-pond-big-fish-gone-to-big-ponditis, but this is actually likely the most positive affect IJ (TDB) has had on me. I thought that the most literarily ingenious thing David Foster Wallace...
May 2011
20 posts
WatchHarry Potter+Inflectional Morphology=Reblog
Because this is fascinating on like, the level of science, since I heard from this one guy one time that American English is what the British sounded like 150+ years ago, and that we’ve just undergone a less extreme linguistic divergent evolution than they have, so our accent is much more difficult to imitate than theirs, and OMHEAVENS HP7!
My mother pointed out at 27:40 that the one... →
“…even now he remains so flummoxed he thinks the way to escape that...”
– Infinite Jest, from the note 270ish.
If you happen to be considering reading IJ, I highly recommend reading or not reading the notes with an instinctual discernment, as much of the vibrance of the book can be lost if none are read, and much of your time can be lost if all are read (see James O....
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I absolutely adore Rachel Elyse Waters.
