Sunday, January 27, 2013

Metamathematics

"The free realization of human truth is everywhere in all desires." 
-Sartre

I know this one...

When I was a kid, I had no idea that residents of a municipality pay for waste collection via taxes.  Similarly, I was unaware of the fact that businesses and individuals may hire waste management firms to haul away their trash if necessary.  Signs proclaiming dumpsters as “private” were baffling to me as a child because, as far as I knew, dumpsters were (by definition) communal.  I assumed that trash just kind of gets taken care of and disappears, and I never pressed the issue.  

A sundae is an ice cream salad.


To Do:  Watch one of the shows where the chubby guy goes to different places and gets really enthusiastic about the local cuisine, while I’m eating the same stuff that he is.

If you could visit any place in the world, where would you go?

Everyone is weird once you get to know them.


The primary function of listening to music, reading, and watching movies is to see where my thoughts will take me.  There is no intrinsic artistic value.

I haven't encountered a racist protagonist who remains racist throughout the work.  If she is racist, it is only so that she may overcome her racism and therefore grow as a character.  

First World Anarchists

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Apatheism


“Don’t tell a hype man to calm down.”
-Chris

Blame Latin


Every time someone mentions the “internet revolution” in relation to “recent advances in technology” I want to throw a computer at his head.

Brown is actually dark orange.

What’s the shortest an era can be?

Whether or not God actually "exists" doesn’t affect my life, or anyone else’s.


In The Pale King, David Foster Wallace says that if you ask a friend “What’s wrong?” at first they will deny that anything is wrong, but if you persist (“No, something’s wrong.  I can tell.  What is it?”), they will tell reveal that something is wrong, and will share their problems with you.  Ostensibly, there is always something eating at everyone, whether or not we realize it. 

Every time you get a text message, someone was thinking about you.

“A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but fuck your mother.”


The NFL and NHL are tax-exempt.

Whenever I’m on Wikipedia looking up people, I always check to see how long they lived first.

Reading:  Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll
Listening to:  There's Nothing Wrong With Love by Built to Spill
Writing:  Boring short story
Playing:  Fingerpicked chord progressions
Watching:  David Lynch