RT @SteveMartinToGo: If you’re as excited as I am, then you’re not very excited.
posts from 2014 / 02
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The first picture of our Horse Squirrel Feeder in action! Taken by the talented Jim Zielinski.
Get your own Horse Head Squirrel Feeder here!
[via zcreative]
February 27th, 2014 8:43pm
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Alright, the people have spoken, get em while they’re hot. Fuckin’ Muni shirts, on sale now: Click Here to Buy
American Apparel shirts printed in the Bay Area
You got six more days to order!
February 27th, 2014 8:37pm
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@wanderingarch excellent. I hope Holl rhymes with Hole, it’d make the quote more painterly, er, architectly.
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February 26th, 2014 6:16pm
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How I drilled into PDFs and zoomed on images in my secret talk: Evernote presentation mode.
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Apple - The CSS class for legal fine print on Apple product pages is “Sosumi.”
Possibly related: The $o$umi is a maki roll on the menu at Blowfish Sushi, a sushi joint with locations in San Francisco and San Jose.
“A mix of crab, spicy tuna, shrimp tempura & red onion rolled with sesame soy paper, drizzled with spicy aioli”
February 26th, 2014 9:04am
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@vurtyou nope!
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My entire secret talk was a heed of mea culpas and two hours later I’ve found three more firm meta mea culpas about the talk itself.
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computer
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I kegged an extra gallon of altbier onto the last gallon of a keg of Chinook IPA to make grog.
Mix sodas at the fountain as a kid?
Yeah.
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RT @AstroRM: I am watching the movie Gravity up here on ISS. Let’s call it training.
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Bart Simpson writing I WILL NOT PUT “I’M EXCITED” INSTEAD OF MY NAME ON ALL OF MY HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS on a blackboard forever and ever.
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More B O R G E S
After Caedmon, there came other religious poets, the most famous of whom is Cynewulf, whose name means “bold wolf.” The oddest thing about Cynewulf, whose poems are paraphrases of the Bible, is the habit he had of “signing” his poems. There are poets who have done this, of course, in a much more efficient way than Cynewulf. Perhaps the most famous is the American poet, Walt Whitman, who speaks about himself in his poems, saying: “Walt Whitman, un cosmos, hijo de Manhattan, turbulento, sensual, paternal, comiendo, bebiendo, sebrando.” 9 And he has a poem that says: “Qué ves, Walt Whitman?” [“ What do you see, Walt Whitman?”] And he responds, “Veo una redonda maravilla que gira por el espacio.” [“ I see a great round wonder rolling through space.”] And then: “Qué oyes, Walt Whitman?” [“ What do you hear Walt Whitman?”] At the end, he sends best wishes to all the countries of the world, “from me and America sent.” 10 Ronsard did the same in a sonnet. 11 And Lugones has also done it, kind of in jest. 12 Somebody asks in Lunario sentimental, “El poeta ha tomado sus lecciones / Quién es? / Leopoldo Lugones / Doctor en Lunología” [“ The poet has had his lessons / Who is he? / Leopoldo Lugones, Doctor of Lunology.”] But Cynewulf chose another way. This practice is common among Persians, and it seems the Persians did it so that others wouldn’t claim their poems as their own. For example, the great Persian poet Hafiz mentions himself many times, always in praise, in his poems. He says, for example, “Hafiz,” and someone answers, “The angels in the sky have learned your latest poems by heart.” Now, Cynewulf— remember that the detective novel is a genre typical of the English language, although it was invented in the United States by Edgar Allan Poe— Cynewulf anticipates cryptography, using the letters of his own name to make a poem about the Final Judgment. 13He says, “C and Y kneel in prayer; N sends up its supplications; E trusts in God; W and U know they will go to Heaven; L and F tremble.” And this is written in Runic letters.
Borges, Jorge Luis (2013-07-22). Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature (p. 43). New Directions. Kindle Edition.
And on the cool check in Center stage on the mic And we’re puttin’ it on wax It’s the new style
Four and three and two and one What up! And when I’m on the mic - the suckers run (Word!) Down with Adrock and Mike D. and you ain’t And I got more juice than Picasso got paint Got rhymes that are rough and rhymes that are slick I’m not surprised you’re on my dick B-E-A-S-T-I-E, what up Mike D. Ah yeah, that’s me I got franks and pork and beans Always bust the new routines I get it - I got it, I know it’s good The rhymes I write - you wish you would I’m never in training - my voice is not straining People always biting and I’m sick of complaining So I went into the locker room during classes Bust into your locker and I smashed your glasses You’re from Secausus - I’m from Manhattan You’re jealous of me because your girlfriend is cattin’
There it is - kick it!!!
Beastie Boys (1986) The New Style. Licensed To Ill.
February 20th, 2014 8:47am
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@GoldbergLawDC they sell the blue ones, yellow ones are in-store-only. I haul stuff to/from zipcars and our building’s laundry room with ‘em
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Did you say 29,710,560,942,849,126,597,578,981,376 IP addresses? Holy moly!
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Jorge Luis Borges, Scandinavian Kennings
In 1500 years, how will scholars unpack the irony and doublespeak of our cants?
Later, the Germanic poets discovered the refrain and used it infrequently. But poetry had developed another hierarchical poetic instrument: that is, kennings— descriptive, crystallized metaphors. Because poets were always talking about the same things, always dealing with the same themes— that is: spears, kings, swords, the earth, the sun— and as these were words that did not begin with the same letter, they had to find a solution. The only poetry that existed, as I have said, was epic poetry. (There was no erotic poetry. Love poetry would appear much later, in the ninth century, with the Anglo-Saxon elegiac poems.) For this poetry, which was only epic, they formed compound words to denote things whose names did not begin with the requisite letter. These kinds of formations are quite possible, and normal, in the Germanic languages. They realized that these compound words could very well be used as metaphors. In this way, they began to call the sea “whale-road,” “sail-road,” or “fish-bath”; they called the ship “sea-stallion” or “sea-stag” or “sea-boar,” always using the names of animals; as a general rule, they thought of the ship as a living being. The king was called “the people’s shepherd” and also— this surely for the minstrels’ sake, for their own benefit—“ ring-giver.” These metaphors, some of which are beautiful, were employed like clichés. Everybody used them, and everybody understood them.
In England, however, poets finally realized that these metaphors— some of which, I repeat, were very beautiful, like the one that called the bird the “summer guardian”— ended up hobbling poetry, so they were slowly abandoned. In Scandinavia, on the other hand, they carried them to their final stage: they created metaphors out of metaphors by using successive combinations. Thus, if a ship was “sea-horse” and the sea was “gull’s field,” then a ship would be “horse of the gull’s field.” And this could be called a metaphor of the first degree. As a shield was the “pirate’s moon”— shields were round and made of wood— and a spear was the “shield’s serpent,” for the spear could destroy the shield, that spear would be the “serpent of the pirate’s moon.”
This is how an extremely complicated and obscure poetry evolved. It is, of course, what happened in learned poetry, within the highest spheres of society. And, as these poems were recited or sung, it must be assumed that the primary metaphors, those that served as the foundation, were already familiar to the audience. Familiar, even very familiar, almost synonymous with the word itself. Be that as it may, the poetry became very obscure, so much so that finding the real meaning is like solving a puzzle. So much so that scribes from subsequent centuries show, in the transcriptions of these same poems we have now, that they did not understand them. Here’s a fairly simple kenning: “the swan of the beer of the dead,” which, when we first see it, we don’t now how to interpret. So, if we break it down, we see that “beer of the dead” means blood, and “swan of the blood” means the bird of death, the raven, so we see that “swan of the beer of the dead” simply means “raven.” And in Scandinavia, whole poems were written like this and with increasing complexity. But this did not happen in England. The metaphors remained in the first degree, without going any further.
Borges, Jorge Luis (2013-07-22). Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature (p. 6). New Directions. Kindle Edition.
February 19th, 2014 8:50am
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“A three second exposure meant that subjects had to stand very still to avoid being blurred, and holding a smile for that period was tricky. As a result, we have a tendency to see our Victorian ancestors as even more formal and stern than they might have been.”
February 18th, 2014 8:34pm
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Ethnography (twice), Psychohistory, Thought Leaders, Two Orange Pictograms, One Blue Loner. http://t.co/H7FIIR3MO1 http://t.co/kFZY4bcMSB
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@wanderingarch Wow, I didn’t notice I’d gotten 68 twice, picking in-bounds random numbers between 0 and 32766 on the third try.
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@wanderingarch let’s start with 68.
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My trick lighter from SMOKE SHOP at 18th and Mission can beat up your Home Depot lighter. http://t.co/edEXg2zWQH
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My trick lighter from SMOKE SHOP at 18th and Mission can beat up your Home Depot lighter. on Flickr.
February 17th, 2014 12:29pm
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@vogon + 10% lobbyists donations + 5% campaign finance donations + 5% accountant and lawyer fees to make it all legitimate.
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RT @psychicmediumje: @LanceUlanoff
What r your thoughts regarding security with Dropbox, Evernote etc? Ty in advance if u can answer.
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February 16th, 2014 7:50am
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CAT PENITENTIARY
A kitchen door opens.
A man enters quietly.
CAT: What’re you in for?
MAN: Coffee. You?
CAT: Crying.The man exits.
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Sleigh’r finished at a solid 1.009 in secondary wrapped in my new electric heating element. \m/
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@toddstraceski Nice!
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The Oracle Says: gravely could probably take me 3 hours of waiting for the total weight of
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“The views expressed in this advertis…”
Quality culture/simulation jamming is indistinguishable from committee work. http://t.co/7t7Ivp3zRt
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It is not to go. But don’t worry I got you something.
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As juror number 7 I feel that I should practice judging things, starting with a Goose Island Bourbon County Barleywine.
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February 13th, 2014 5:57pm
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Yisssss
I don’t have the story on two Feb. 12s on the door calendar but I will report back when I find out.
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PS: Our group brought a carpet and a chandelier and are playing some Miles Davis.
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With the first group in line for a 2014 taste of Pliny the Younger.
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Python people: why name your modules ‘python-foo’. We know it’s for python, we’re installing it with pip. You import it as ‘foo’ anyway.
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I know I complain about this a lot but it really makes this entire simulation thing look half-assed.
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I’d really like a deep mirror of https://t.co/nICJx0DGFe.
Years of https://t.co/LY8fMDaWPm use, don’t know who to credit for it.
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😉 for the fella IRL winkin at @vurtyou in CPR training, and ? at the dental hygienist in the class that asked if mouth-to-mouth was opt-in
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lulz 2008
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This Machine Kills Enthusiasts
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‘Scuse me Egon? You said crossing the streams was bad!
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“Back To The Future Marty McFly Vest Costume Adult Movie T-Shirt Tee”
No officer, I’ve no idea how fast I ordered it.
That fast?
Heavy.
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If he was so smart he would’ve sprayed his bat suit, the ladder, Robin, and the Bat copter with shark-repellant Bat-spray. Batman is a jerk.
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RT @dril: i don’t care about anybody’s opinion unless it is good. before you type, please ask yourself. “Is my opinion good” if it’s bad do…
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Imagine every page needs x-frame-options. Now imagine the browser is a frame. Now imagine a phone is a browser. Now imagine a homunculus in—
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Be sure to cut onions before frying your cobra meatballs in peanut fry oil. You’ll need the tears when they spit boiling oil in your eyes.
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I think I accidentally got cobra meatballs instead of chicken. Is that a thing now foodies? Is this what it’s come to? Damnit.
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I will never log off.
I will never log off.
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I will never log off.
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@automine so does norcal, or San Francisco, at least. It’s wild to see ‘em.
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Get cozy and watch DJ Erb’s Alice in Shadowland mix sync’d with Alice in Wonderland. -
@grahamvsworld Twitter Pro is a service only used by brandromancers primarily interested in connecting with brands.
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The birthday paradox doesn’t happen cause a’ math, but because people are the adversaries breedn’ an’ they keep finding ways to outsmart us.
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A MONTH OF T-SHIRTS AND PANTS AND COATS AND SHOES AND SOCKS AND BREIFS AND GLASSES AND HATS AND ACCESSORIES AND TOOLS THAT ARE BLACK BUGS.
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All users may rest assured that there will be NO TROLLING HERE. I will be happy to enforce this peace because I cannot be trolled. ☯94APR
January 31st, 2014 6:50pm
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January 31st, 2014 6:46pm
