February 2012
14 posts
3 tags
Good Use of a Buck
I spent a dollar to have this post highlighted.
2 tags
If We've Met Once Before
FYI: If we’ve once before, and then, much later, we meet again, then I will pretend that I only dimly recall our first meeting. However, there’s an excellent chance that I vividly remember our first meeting: where it was, what we talked about, and how long we talked.
But I never reveal how much I remember of our first meeting, for two reasons: It would seem creepy (“Why does...
2 tags
3 tags
January 2012
13 posts
2 tags
3 tags
1 tag
2 tags
“I’m tired of trying to do something worthwhile for the human race. They...”
– August Dvorak, designer of the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard Layout
1 tag
1 tag
Health Insurance
This is just me venting. My head hurts.
I work freelance and part-time for my company (which will remain unnamed in this post). Because I work for 3 different parts of my company (R&D, tutoring, teaching), my taxes are a bit of a mess: Each part counts as a different job. In addition, I don’t get health insurance, because I’m considered a part-time worker (teaching, tutoring), and...
1 tag
The Top 10 Months of 2011
1. June.
2. September.
3. March.
4. November.
5. October.
6. April.
7-8. December/May (tie).
9. July.
10. February.
Honorable Mentions (in no particular order): August, January.
History of Pebbles #1: Let's.
historyofpebbles:
Here you go. I will do these once a month.
3 tags
December 2011
13 posts
1 tag
“The crickets and the rust-beetles scuttled among the nettles of the sage...”
– From Old Custer by Eli Cash. Everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is… maybe he didn’t.
Goodnight, 2011.
Some friends have summed up their years on tumblr. I enjoyed reading them, so I thought I would do the same. Feel free to ignore this post.
To sum up 2011 for Curtis:
January-May: I worked. A lot. Generally, 10-14 hours a day, every day, because I had nothing better to do: I was single and lonely. I had 3 days off from January to May: First two, I had food poisoning from eating too many eggs on...
3 tags
4 tags
3 tags
The Only Christmas Songs That Matter #3: R2-D2, We...
2 tags
The Only Christmas Songs That Matter #2: #FFF...
2 tags
The Only Christmas Songs That Matter #1: Punching...
2 tags
1 tag
1 tag
“Maybe we’ve stopped creating art. Maybe we’ve instead just started...”
– Stefan Urquelle, from his book All Your Base Are Belong to Us.
2 tags
3 tags
Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Defense Technology... →
November 2011
20 posts
4 tags
“Lincoln was drawn to logical, quantitative reasoning. When most Americans...”
– Eric Foner, The Fiery Trial, p. 255
3 tags
Elvis Costello: Steal This Record & Abbie Hoffman...
Elvis Costello thinks his new boxed set is too expensive. So, he says, don’t buy it.
Unfortunately, we at www.elviscostello.com find ourselves unable to recommend this lovely item to you as the price appears to be either a misprint or a satire…
If you should really want to buy something special for your loved one at this time of seasonal giving, we can whole-heartedly recommend,...
How Are You Supposed To Remember Stuff From the...
improvnonsense:
Be smarter?
Remember everything?
Enjoy it so you remember it like you remember your favorite movie/tv show?
I don’t know. Just do it. Remember stuff or don’t do improv.
I love this. I think “Remember stuff or don’t do improv” is a better motto than “don’t think.” Improv is not easy. It’s hard, and it takes a lot of practice....
Congrats to those moving on to the Semis!
threeonthree:
Congrats to Analingus and the Shit Tongues (Matt Mayer, Shannon O’Neill, Curtis Retherford), Dirty, Old (Ben Wietmarschen, Pat O’Brien, Veronica Osorio), and the Wildcard Team 4 aka New York City Knicks (Adam Bozarth, Shaun Diston, Fesh)
We’ve got the Semi-Finals at 7:30 and 9pm, and the Finals at 10:30!
This was a fun show.
Hal Phillips: Fight For Your Right To Fight →
halphillips:
Inappropriate police behavior has been a problem for a long time. It is usually aimed at poor people, minorities, and people in no position to fight back. Because of the Occupy protests, it is aimed at people who are videotaping everything and putting it on the internet.
Police brutality is…
Yes.
6 tags
Arguments are Stateless Conversations
Lt. Pike’s actions, and the reactions to his actions, made me think of this exceprt from the book The Most Human Human, by Brian Christian. It’s part of a discussion of how AI researchers are attempting to create chat programs that effectively mimic human conversation. (pgs. 53-55) Italics his, bold mine.
Not all human conversations function in this way, but many do, and it behooves...
Be better.
eliotglazer:
Citizens of the world, flood his home phone at 530-752-3989.
Flood his cell phone at 530-979-0184.
Flood his email at, japikeiii@ucdavis.edu.
Flood his home with pizza deliveries and junk mail at 4005 Cowell Boulevard. Apartment #616. Davis, California 95618.
Flood his skype at japike3.
Flood his phones, email and mailbox to voice your anger.
Flood the campus of U.C. Davis.
...
