Misc

"Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be..."

Mon, 12 May 2008 13:53:42 -0400

“Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Photo

Mon, 12 May 2008 05:05:37 -0400

Sometimes life on this island is just unreal

Sun, 11 May 2008 12:12:09 -0400

Sometimes life on this island is just unreal

Video

Sun, 11 May 2008 11:53:47 -0400

Dmite - Readabook

Sun, 11 May 2008 05:56:28 -0400

Dmite - Readabook: [Hype Machine]

"By failing to live by the letter of the texts, while tolerating the irrationality of those who do,..."

Sun, 11 May 2008 04:40:47 -0400

“By failing to live by the letter of the texts, while tolerating the irrationality of those who do, religious moderates betray faith and reason equally.”

- Sam Harris, The End of Faith

The latest from jenreadsjunkmail

Sat, 10 May 2008 14:28:27 -0400

The latest from jenreadsjunkmail

The secret to a “Black v. Red” game on SimAnt is to...

Fri, 09 May 2008 16:53:00 -0400

The secret to a “Black v. Red” game on SimAnt is to do nothing at all. Just plop your yellow ant ass down on the pixelated pukey-olive dirt and watch your colony completely destroy the red ant colony on its own. What kind of game beats itself by default? No wonder my generation feels so entitled.

Photo

Wed, 07 May 2008 04:53:59 -0400

Friendship

Sun, 04 May 2008 11:12:02 -0400

Shannon: I wish you were here so we could go get a booth in Denny's and talk. Partly because I'm hungry, and partly because I like to talk and have no friends.
Me: Having no friends is better than having my friends. The last email from my friend Jeremy ended with "Heather, breast implants. Think about it. I know I do. Jeremy"

NY Times: A Blacklash?

Sun, 04 May 2008 10:25:05 -0400

NY Times: A Blacklash?

Jen: God damnit what is his name?!

Sat, 03 May 2008 13:59:25 -0400

Jen: God damnit what is his name?!
Me: Botero?
Jen: YES. That's it.
Me: All the really suspicious Google queries in my browser history are your fault.
Jen: Yeah, I know the feeling. I'm pretty sure if anyone ever got ahold of my computer, they'd think I was some fetishistic pervert.
"fat people painter"
"paintings of fat people"
"fat children paintings"

Si l’bor d’lo

Fri, 02 May 2008 08:14:00 -0400

Si l’bor d’lo

Emphasis added

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:33:11 -0400

Emphasis added:

BBC: “A 73-year-old Austrian man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, police have said.

Police said Josef Fritzl also admitted burning the body of a baby that died at the house in Amstetten, Lower Austria.

Mr Fritzl has been taken to court while authorities are caring for the woman, now 42, and her six surviving children.”

Dear God.

Dear Random Plastic Elephant on the Kitchen Counter This...

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:48:50 -0400

Dear Random Plastic Elephant on the Kitchen Counter This Morning,

Whence camest thou, and was it sandy there?

Were you once a fridge magnet? Where did your magnet go?

And finally, are you trying to tell me something? Perhaps something about the Super U dark chocolate raisin hazelnut bar in the fridge? Well, you’re just going to have to find that magnet of yours because sitting on the counter like that, you’re rather ignorable.

“The scene to the right, the fourth in Hogarth’s...

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:13:47 -0400

“The scene to the right, the fourth in Hogarth’s progression, is titled ‘The Reward of Cruelty’. Tom is shown being anatomized (the evidence of his hanging shown by the noose still around his neck) as further punishment for his evil deeds.” —Jen

I’ve never had so much macabre fun reading a thesis.

"Yes, I’m finnich!"

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:05:12 -0400

“Yes, I’m finnich!”

- Even after 8 months, about 150 of my 400 students can neither hear nor reproduce the difference between /ɪʃt/ and /ɪtʃ/. Question mark?

via zachklein: via swissmiss

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:01:03 -0400

via zachklein: via swissmiss

There’s no Russian alphabet song?! Outrage! This is a GarageBand project.

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:38:23 -0400

There’s no Russian alphabet song?! Outrage! This is a GarageBand project.

19th century anatomists that have appeared in Jen's readings

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:52:00 -0400

Robert Gooch
Benjamin Gooch
Roger Cooter
Benjamin Alcock
Lord Henry Cockburn
Sir Thomas Booby

(Our collective age is in the high twenties)