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The Ape and The Snake
The men who planned and carried out the bombings in Bali in 2002, the ones that killed one of my oldest and dearest friends (but only after he suffered with burns over most of his body for nearly two...
View ArticleSobriety
It was back in September, and the Korean doctor was running the ultrasound wand back and forth across my lubed-up abdomen, shaking his head and looking stern. “Patty Ribber” he repeated, three or four...
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Nerds and Otaku and Geeks, Oh My!
I just read Patton Oswalt’s Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die, which I enjoyed, and I’ve got something to say. Several somethings, in fact. As I set out, I’m not entirely certain what those somethings...
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Living First Person
[Crossposted from Full Glass Empty Clip] It’s 1977. I’m 12 years old. It’s a gorgeous Northern BC summer day, one of those glorious fleeting perfect days that are all the sweeter in the frozen north,...
View ArticleFarewell, Stanza. Hello, Marvin!
I love books. I love to hold ‘em, I love to smell ‘em. I love taking them into the bathroom and having a long, relaxing poop. I love riffling through their pages and letting the gentle dusty breeze of...
View ArticleAnger Soup, Disappointment Salad
Here’s your Superbowl-and-circuses, Citizens™! Please enjoy the clash of these broken, opiated gladiators we have assembled for your pleasure. You will also enjoy these messages exhorting you to buy...
View ArticleThe Aleph
The Aleph: Infinite Wonder / Infinite Pity is infinite generative text created from Gutenberg and Twitter searches. ∞
View ArticleMy Butt
Cloud To Butt™ is a browser extension for Firefox | Chrome | Safari that changes all instances of ‘the cloud’ to ‘my butt’. View its mind-shattering magnificence in some screenshots here. Now this is...
View ArticleWords That Last
A research team led by Mark Pagel at the University of Reading in England has identified 23 “ultraconserved words” that have remained largely unchanged for 15,000 years. ∞
View ArticleThoreauvian
“What is a farm but a mute gospel?” The Thoreau Poison and Shane Carruth’s ‘Upstream Color’. ∞
View ArticleiCloud
Last night I dreamed that some time in the future, humans had figured out how to build distributed computing platforms complex enough to upload consciousness. As part of the bootstrap uplift into...
View ArticleBut Some People Still Need A God
“The complexity of what we are seeing is almost overwhelming”
View ArticleFacebuck
NYTimes: Winklevoss Twins Plan First Fund for Bitcoins. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the twins best known for their part in the history of Facebook, filed a proposal with securities regulators on...
View ArticleSome Days
Some rare Korean summer days like today you stop and you look up and there’s nothing but blue, and you think about that thin envelope of air and how close to your upturned face the edge of space lies,...
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We Had Some Good Machines
Traipsing tonight through old 80s songs I loved while beer hooray and this arrived and I love it so much. It’s Shriekback, from 1985, and it’s a beautiful little song, but the thing I love about it is...
View ArticleBuk For The Right Reasons
Look, I’m 49 years old. I know Charles Bukowski was an asshole — a drunk and a bastard and a pig. I don’t even like poetry, and I spent long enough years living the life before I figured out that...
View ArticleThis Is My Jam
Music is a thing that I like. Music is probably a thing you like, too. Sharing music that we like, well, that’s a fine and beautiful thing to do. I know there are about a million ways to perform that...
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