March 2009
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November 2008
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October 2008
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Octane Number
“When such an explosion occurs in the reaction chamber of an internal combustion engine, the piston is driven forward with a violent, rather than a gentle, stroke. Such premature explosions cause the phenomenon known as knocking. The tendency of a fuel to knock depends markedly on the nature of the hydrocarbons used. In general, branching of an alkane chain tends to inhibit knocking. The...
February 2008
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Things that once seemed mundane on a day-to-day basis often become much more profound when examined in a different time and a different (head) space. For example, when I was a child, I naturally thought like a child, behaved like a child, and only had the ability to grasp life, work, play, emotions, success and failure, with the hands of a child… .
January 2008
2 posts
Favorite word: “Yucca.”
Writing can be used to right the wrong or wrong the right, to fight the might, and light minds bright.
December 2007
1 post
“These things that, by his science and technology, man has brought about on this...”
– Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud.
November 2007
4 posts
“No matter what I’m doing, I can’t help wondering if there is a better way. For...”
– The Dilbert Blog: Urge to Simplify
“Leisure has been gained by a vast number of people who until recently had been merely beasts of burden with as much chance to read a book or listen to a symphony as a mule in the army or a pony in the mine. When leisure shall at last have been provided for all of us, it will no longer be necessary to fill the few spare hours of these tired toilers with those depressing forms of...
September 2007
7 posts
WatchElijah Wood
“Given the critical role of invariant representations, one route to greater...”
– How Your Mind Really Works
“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The...”
– AA Milne
“Part of what makes art “good” is the artist’s skill at...”
– What does Objectivism Consider to be Art (Aesthetics)
“So, because reason is our means of survival, we stand to benefit from every...”
– What is the Objectivist Position in Morality (Ethics)?
“Be a leader with a vision.”
– Last sentence of Table 5.3 “How Some Families Have Taken Back Their Time” from the textbook Leisure and Life Satisfaction
“Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.”
– Frank Zappa
August 2007
1 post
What new thoughts can I have today that I’ve never had before?
July 2007
3 posts
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Tension of Purpose
I might do that stuff, if it didn’t make me feel like shit.
June 2007
44 posts
smellaswell
M: the most interesting smell my nostrils picked up today was mango chutney!
M: yum!
“What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream? Or...”
– Woody Allen
“C. O. F. F. E. E.
Don’t drink too much coffee.
Not for children is this...”
– An old song via zzz1492
“I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not...”
– Robert McCloskey
“my summer is better than drugs. most of the time.”
– MM
“We love the things we love for what they are.”
– Robert Frost
A bird in flight is a magnificent sight
“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
– Augusten Burroughs
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Pine Trees
My hair is sappy. Pine-sappy.
“you make my eyebrows curl and my hands mingle and my stomach sit on a leather...”
– LZ
“So the post office just raised the price of a stamp from $0.39 to $0.41. Go fuck...”
– Ricky Van Veen
Todays letter is: "A"
Attention Affection Appreciation
A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still.
Ideas that spread win!
“i have recently acquired a TomTom GPS in car navigator. Amongst its many...”
– Vadim via 5 Powerful Reasons to Drive Slower
TED | Talks | Dan Gilbert: Why are we happy? Why... →