December 2011
2 posts
KUBIK
cassandrasherene:
I made a gif instead of studying for my mid-trimester exams.
“Yet given the infinity of the internet you still surf the same 5 websites,...”
November 2011
2 posts
“One thing I’ve learnt while working for Mozilla is that a web browser can be...”
– Nicholas Nethercote puts the dinosaur on a diet.
October 2011
20 posts
“All operating systems know when they were born. Their internal clocks start...”
– The Economist’s obituary for dmr
“Art constantly reinvents its methods while retaining forms derived from the...”
– Pauli Olavi Ojala
19th century romantic comedy
Him: If I were rich you would marry me at once.
Her: Ah, George! George! The devotion which you show me breaks my heart.
Him: What do you mean?
Her: That you have often praised my beauty, but until now I did not know how much you recognized my good sense.
“No fair-minded girl objects to a certain tinge of jealousy. Kept within proper...”
– The Man Upstairs and Other Stories, Wodehouse
“Because of the circumstances in which they encounter it, children tend to...”
– “The Daddy Model of Wealth,” Paul Graham
“When love becomes intense, pressing with the nails or scratching the body with...”
– The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana “nails” it
“Paradise is a dream invented by rogues, who wish to conceal their crimes from...”
– The fiery words of an early socialist
“This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my...”
– Yes Jack
“Stripped of all power as children, and never given either power or...”
– The Last Psychiatrist criticizes contemporary parenting
“I didn’t ask for details. Women with hair and chins like Mary’s may...”
– I’m going to keep quoting My Man Jeeves
“The American spirit seems not to understand moderation. Their high business...”
– Outre-mer pegs it in 1895
“One may feel a certain indifference to the death penalty, one may refrain from...”
– “Les Misérables”, I wish that executions were still public.
“‘Why not write my poem on the wall, too?’ he said to himself....”
– The Water Margin gives a vandal’s rationale
“If Lenin walked around the offices of a company like Yahoo or Intel or Cisco,...”
– “The Lever of Technology,” Paul Graham
“Dancing is the vertical expression of a horizontal desire”
“Here Suvarnanabha says that while a man is doing to the woman what he likes best...”
– “Stop doing it wrong,” xoxo The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
September 2011
30 posts
“The Countess Nordston and Levin got into that relation with one another not...”
– Anna Karenina is so unrealistic
“Marriage, the dynamite of the soul; that was what hit Bobbie. He married. Have...”
– Read My Man Jeeves
“In the case of a well-known conversational programming language I have been told...”
– EWD is all business and no fun in “The Humble Programmer”
“Then I went to meet Ruth Gullion and took her back to the apartment. I got her...”
– On The Road, where it’s never simple
“It is very late in the day to start dealing with these problems, but it will...”
– The Reuther memorandum via UR
“Male, female, gay, straight, legal, illegal, country of origin—who cares? You...”
– Anthony Bourdain is how he is in “So You Wanna Be a Chef”
“In 1984 one of their men rented a room at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, where the...”
– “WN 38 IRA VS. AL QAEDA: I WAS WRONG”, The War Nerd
“What does a man care about? Staying healthy. Working good. Eating and drinking...”
– Poor Hemingway, hounded by the feds.
“When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning....”
– Pablo Picasso
“We were approaching the hotel—a Best Western in Luxembourg—but first Li briefed...”
– Culture shock shock in The Grand Tour
“我に似な 二つに割れし 真桑瓜. don’t copy me, like the second half of a cut melon!”
– Matsuo Bashō battle raps via The Heart of Haiku
“Expatriation,” I wrote just now. How harsh the word is, and how false it...”
– Outre-Mer, the impressions of Paul Bourget, a Frenchman touring America at the turn of the 20th century
“Emergency Message for U.S. Citizens
WORLDWIDE TRAVEL ALERT
September 08, 2011...”
– consacs@state.gov reminding me it has been 10 years since a terrorist attack occurred on September 11. 10 years of non-specific threats. 10 years of government sponsored fear.
“For every bad date I have been on, I am sure the girl has her own version where...”
– “Crazy Girls”, Max Lance—I LOL’ed
“XML is like violence - if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using...”
– “Nokogiri 鋸”, Aaron Patterson
“Because it was a beginners’ course, the characters on our tape generally steered...”
– I gave in and read some Sedaris
“Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell’s grammar is. Even examination...”
– Tom Duff
“Justice is always lost where Trade is concerned.”
– Paolo Bacigalupi is conspicuously quotable in The Windup Girl
“If there’s any one thing about England that Cayce finds fundamentally...”
– Pattern Recognition is my ugly American
“‘data’ is not the plural of ‘anecdote.’”
“Distant friends grow ever distant, friends at hand grow closer still.”
– Water Margin speaking to me
“Pyongyang therefore negotiates with Washington not to defuse tension but to...”
– Do North Korean’s see themselves as the cleanest race?
“But when Mr. Turner came up to William Campbell’s room at noon William Campbell...”
– “A Pursuit Race”, Men Without Women
(How is Hemingway not out of copyright?)
“I want something from her, but I don’t know what it is. I guess that means sex.”
– The Girl Who Couldn’t Come is honest