February 2012
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for dramatic effect.
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how do I start this?
outside with Phil “already doing back to back shots and I haven’t touched my beer.” me “(vomit reflex)”
the hand tanner
is the human George Forman.
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CANT on world cafe →
this is a couple weeks late, so i’m sure it’s been out there for while, but one of the better dark albums of 2011, chris taylor talks about some of his sounds and playing “the edge” “believe” and “bang.” a great line-up live for this album. the live drums spice it up and the drawn out emphasized bass lines drive it home. of course chris...
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January 2012
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dealing with life today
has been difficult.
found out about this man… well after graduate applications were due (his emphasis is on analogical thought and creativity. i was literally just explaining what i want my research to focus on: the role of art in education creating analogies for efficient learning. FUCK.
i will never love again.
i can’t seem to find a groove on spotify.
i didn’t ride at ALL...
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We have repeatedly seen how analogies and mappings give rise to secondary...
– Douglas Hofstadter, I am a Strange Loop, 2007
my mind is blowing up! (yeah, even that is an analogy, would “my neurons interacting between my pre-frontal cortex, temporal lobe, wernicke’s area, and hippocampus were above a normal range of creating electric current?”)
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lots of feelings about discovering friendly fires tonight. mostly though, now realizing how drasticly i need to change the way i walk. so much expression through walking. it’s an underrated art form. forgotten since the days of monty python and the 80’s.
The pages had to be cut on all four edges for smooth feeding. The project...
– excerpt from the million dollar books project (what seems to be an industrial?) report.
the highly expensive, somewhat dangerous machine to chop book pages was admittedly, annoying as shit.
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I hereby officially and enthusiastically endorse Newt Gingrich for president of...
– Herman Cain - @thehill (via brooklynmutt)
wait, is this the politician’s endorsement, or did godfather’s pizza just become the official pizza of the 2012 primary?
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Higher education is not a luxury. It’s an economic imperative that every family...
– President Obama speaking in Michigan today about his plans to make college more affordable (via barackobama)
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I am
NOT a space pilot.
Thank you Brittany for the quote of the night.
Boozy bears
Gummi bears soaked in jungle juice. Pat-ent pending.
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Rascist GPS? →
Or just a nature of statistics. Reading criticisms of how data is applied to technology is always interesting to me. In this article, critics of the Microsoft “avoid ghetto” app have an apparent misconception of collected data and statistics. The criticism that avoiding bad neighborhoods associated as bad because of high crime rates is being correlated to minority groups by these, lets...
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spotify
but ONLY for remixes. i don’t want those gumming up my last.fm. seriously.
edit: this is an important development in my life. take heed.
SOPA
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