Day 470
Human finds dead laptop
Human finds dead hamster
Human gets punched in the face by a freezer.
Stiff upper lip.
Current standings
1) Cat
2) Human
9/1/10
8/31/10
8/30/10
8/29/10
Possible explanations for a dog-walker going up and down the same short stretch of street over and over during a relatively brief span of time:
1) Repeatedly forgetting items necessary for dog walking.
2) Heroically attempting to have a found lost puppy sniff out its apartment.
3) Methodically testing the point at which bystanders will methodically test a pedestrian’s balance.
1) Repeatedly forgetting items necessary for dog walking.
2) Heroically attempting to have a found lost puppy sniff out its apartment.
3) Methodically testing the point at which bystanders will methodically test a pedestrian’s balance.
8/28/10
“I've been for a walk on a winter's day…”
School is supposed to be a place of learning; instead, the primary focus becomes about structured work. Ideas are quantified as credits and page lengths, to occur on a rigid schedule of hours, days, and semesters. Knowledge is secondary to demonstrable accomplishment.
“…Stopped into a church I passed along the way…”
A teacher is who is there for you; for it is your experience.
“…The preacher likes the cold / He knows I'm going to stay…”
Puff on, bubble-blowing missionaries: your attending flock awaits.
“…All the leaves are brown, and the sky is grey…”
School is supposed to be a place of learning; instead, the primary focus becomes about structured work. Ideas are quantified as credits and page lengths, to occur on a rigid schedule of hours, days, and semesters. Knowledge is secondary to demonstrable accomplishment.
“…Stopped into a church I passed along the way…”
A teacher is who is there for you; for it is your experience.
“…The preacher likes the cold / He knows I'm going to stay…”
Puff on, bubble-blowing missionaries: your attending flock awaits.
“…All the leaves are brown, and the sky is grey…”
8/26/10
8/24/10
8/19/10
“I count to three and grin / You smile and let me in…”
benchmark
“…We're talented and bright / We're lonely and uptight / We've found some lovely ways to disappoint…”
+ watershed
“…But the airport's always almost empty this time of the year / So let's go play on a baggage carousel…”
= watermark
“…Set our watches forward like we're just arriving here / From a past we left in a place we knew too well…”
benchmark
“…We're talented and bright / We're lonely and uptight / We've found some lovely ways to disappoint…”
+ watershed
“…But the airport's always almost empty this time of the year / So let's go play on a baggage carousel…”
= watermark
“…Set our watches forward like we're just arriving here / From a past we left in a place we knew too well…”
8/17/10
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World glimpses the clung past, be it the already-decade-removed setting, the repeatedly-not-over-exes plot, or the quest-for-maturity theme. The jokes are frequent, but nevertheless not the less funny for it, stopping just short of overdone, with humor that is both common and yet almost unerringly clever. There is no way to not feel old while watching it, in both senses: the dread of realization and the bliss of nostalgia.
8/13/10
Like the elegance of a wordless proof, there is a beauty in simple truth, a reminder of what is trying to being said, lost amid verifiability, significance, context, motivation; lost amid so much listening that isn’t being done. Information has become tethered to communication, with perception abandoned.
“…I feel as if I'm looking at the world from the bottom of a well…”
“…I feel as if I'm looking at the world from the bottom of a well…”
8/11/10
“41) How would you describe your ideal job?
(A) Ability to decide for myself what to do and how to do it
(B) Being told what to do, but not how to do it
(C) Being told what to do and getting suggestions on how to do it
(D) Being clearly told what to do and how to do it
(E) I am not sure”
You’re better than this, 41. You’re an actual question, with actual answers. Look around you; look at the company you keep. You don’t belong here.
(A) Ability to decide for myself what to do and how to do it
(B) Being told what to do, but not how to do it
(C) Being told what to do and getting suggestions on how to do it
(D) Being clearly told what to do and how to do it
(E) I am not sure”
You’re better than this, 41. You’re an actual question, with actual answers. Look around you; look at the company you keep. You don’t belong here.
8/10/10
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