Archive for December, 2007
Anxiously Waiting…
I have to go meet with the surgeon today about Taily. I’m a bit anxious about that. Aside from that, I am anxious over the actual surgery, which I thought was originally today. I really am not looking forward to being on antibiotics for another few weeks. I don’t think they are working. I have [...]
Poll : What are 7 characteristics of humankind
Hey friends. I need your help!
What are 7 adjectives that you would use to describe homo sapiens that, for the most part, distinguish us from other animals? I’d like come up with 7 distinct characteristics and then break that into degrees. So something like “compassionate” and “hateful” are different degrees of some single characteristic… perhaps [...]
Quote of the Day
“Fatigue can make cowards of us all” - anonymous
I think this has been the story of my life the last year. As I have stated before, the doc said it was highly likely that Taily has cause a lot of my illness lately. Meanwhile, in spite of the growth of Adamantine Arts and the increasing [...]
Gay, Illegal, and Carless….
I found this funny. The issue of gay and illegal hits close to home. Although, I am not sure about the carless part.
Dude… why does AOL’s video player have some much extra HTML to copy/paste?
Synesthesia as a basis for metaphor and art?
Matrix masters podcast 118 features an hour lecture with Vilayanur S. Ramachandran MD, PhD, a professor of Neurosciences at UC SanDiago. He focuses half of the talk on one my personal favorite fringe topics, synesthesia and the other on art. He essentially gives a scientific explanation for humans’ desire for visual art and also [...]
Peeps You Should (maybe) Know of the Day : Uri Geller
I’m starting a segment called - peeps you should (maybe) know of the day. There are a lot of people if have heard names of stumbled upon on Wikipedia that seem interesting in my mind.
Today’s installment is Uri Geller. I first looked up Uri in 2006 on Wikipedia. I had heard the name before and [...]
Have a monday
In an effort to be less of a negative Nancy, I would just like to point out that today is a great day. While the weekend was sprinkled with some White Russians ala Big Lebowski, seeing the Frida show at the Walker, and spending some time meeting new people, I also had to hear some [...]
Japanese Wax Gameshow…
This is just more proof that the Japanese a both awesome and weird as shit. The game is reminiscent of something you would do on the play ground as a kid… but with wax. You do some sort of paper, rock, scissors type game and the looser has a split second to get his umbrella [...]
