Authenticity

Gone Tomorrow

In / O u t

can you see the letters on the dreidel?

do you understand the floats and memes?

connect complete control between the letters

on the dreidel, do you understand?

Meta-meta

“When we first got married, we made a pact.  It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would make all of the big decisions and my wife would make all of the little decisions.  For fifty years, we have held true to that agreement.  I believe that is the reason for the success in our marriage.  However, the strange thing is that in fifty years, there hasn’t been one big decision.”

-Albert Einstein

Source: http://xkcd.com/917

Do you wash your hands before or after you buckle your belt?  It’s important to remain consistent.

Tongue Twister:  British citizenship

You can turn any work of fiction into nonfiction by encasing the text in quotes and adding “someone wrote” at the end.

Analysis Paralysis

RFD:  The instrument used to measure one’s shoe size is named the Brannock Device.

A bed sunken into the carpet that rises slowly like a clock’s hand from 9 to 12.  By the time you’re standing, it’s time to wake up.

Bohemian Rhapsody is about “The Stranger” by Camus.

It's nice to wake up hungry and eat.

A birthday card is belated, a flight is delayed, a project is running behind schedule, a student is late.

The ampersand was derived by squishing together “e” and “t.”

The Fall

 

Kangaroos

                “I drew an octopus cause it has eight legs and they all swim like this – whoosh!”  Billy shot out his arms and blew bubbles, his dungarees rose toward his belly button.

                “Ahh hahaha,” Joe grinned and giggled.  “I drew a penguin.”  He picked up his penguin and held it out with both hands.  Rosy cheek smile end to end.

                “You want a candy?”

                Joe’s eyes widened.  “Whacha got?”

                Billy reached in his pocket and palmed a piece of chocolate, unwrapped and really good-looking.

                “Whoa!  Where’d ya get that?”

                “My mom gave it to me before I got here cause my sister is sick and she wanted candy and my mom went to Super Fresh and got it and gave it to me.”

                Joe started giggling, then Billy started too.  “Toss it to me,” Joe said, taking a couple steps back.

                Billy tossed it - his arc a little too high, the chocolate hit the ground.  “Hurry up and grab it!”

                Joe scrambled to the ground and tried to grab the chocolate.  It slid from his fingers as he tried to scoop the sides.

                “Five second rule!”

                He tried again, but the chocolate slid away.  He grabbed it next try and stood up, outstretching his arm and staring at the chocolate.

                Billy shook his head.  “I think that was more than five seconds.”

                “It’s ten second rule!  I got ten seconds to grab it.”

                “Isn’t it five second rule?”

                “No, it’s ten second rule.”  Joe bended his arm in and looked at the chocolate up close.  “My sister dropped a pretzel on the ground and then she ate it cause she said it was ten seconds and that was fine because of the ten second rule.”

                “Oh, ok.” Billy giggled.  “You wanna draw a kangaroo with me?”

                “Yeah I love kangaroos.”

                “Kangaroos are my favorite animal.  So are frogs.”

               

                  

Good Posture

I'm the most interesting person I know.  I don't mean that in a snobby way, exactly.  I just have clearer access to my thoughts than anyone else's.  My mind is manifest, all others are separated by various degrees of opacity.  I'm sure Eytan has a running mentalese narrative in his head throughout the day, but most of the time I don't know if he's solving the problem or beating up halos.  Occasionally he'll say something reflective, but my eyes aren't always in sync with the air waves exuding the meaning in question.  And later I'm leaving the most interesting person I know.  I have clearer access to my thoughts.  The mentalese narrative in my head, I don't know, most of the time.  Something reflecting, the most interesting person I know.  And later I'm leaving the most interesting person I know.  Mentalese, reflecting, leaving.  Interesting.

New Orleans, August

What would it be like to be colorblind and have synesthesia?

Tally marks are different in China.

I wish “tl;dr” was more-widely used – like, at the end of at textbook chapter.

A random binary number generator costs exactly one cent.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

New York City, July

“One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.”

Bertrand Russell

“Withdrawing in disgust is not the same thing as apathy.”

Slackers, Richard Linklater

Havre de Grace, June

Maybe the big corporations are anonymously donating large sums of money to charitable causes, but don’t want to receive credit because of their humility.

You don’t need money to make it out of the hood.  That is, if you don’t mind being homeless.

Most real numbers are transcendental.

In the U.S., 82% of Catholics think that birth control is morally acceptable.

Reflections (Fade)

My whole life listening to music
And now, the sounds drowned in silence.
I can hear my heart - it's always been there, beating
but I never noticed it til just now.

My whole life is a mirror,
I'm nothing more than me.
Writing poetry by myself, about myself
Listening to music and schoolchildren on friday afternoons.
Thinking,
laughing occasionally,
Remembering to bring my car keys before you close the door.

My whole life will end
like light as it approaches and is swallowed by
a black hole - insipid, uncaring
as a young couple making love,
a door ajar, a baby rests in the crib.