I love languages. English, German, Mandarin, Java, Hypolocrian—it’s all good. I’m not yet fluent in any of these, but I like to tinker. I like to catch thoughts as near back to the core of their creation as possible, then contort and pervert them, stretching them across strange jungle gym formations in my thoughtspace. Here … Continue reading
I recently pissed on about the belief that people aren’t reading very much these days. I was horribly disillusioned because I live in a world of words and don’t actually talk to humans outside of my insular existence. My primary gauge for what the norms are thinking about is The Onion. It is my barometer … Continue reading
I’m a supremely chill individual, but I do tend to snap at ignorance beyond a certain threshold. I like to think it’s a rather generous threshold. This post really irritated me. But what I didn’t know is that books are already toast. Steve Jobs recently told the New York Times his opinion on Amazon’s Kindle … Continue reading
All the presidential candidates for 2008 suck. Every one of them. There are a few I wouldn’t mind having in office, but that’s a pretty depressed way to choose a candidate to represent me. But I guess that’s contemporary American democracy for you. The other day, while I was doing a little research on Jean … Continue reading
This post could very well have been titled “Fun with a thesaurus!” but I like the glint of the word parade I assembled instead. A little while ago I was writing late at night at wanted a word stronger than “ignorance” and less insulting than “hebetude” (I settled on the tastefully academic-sounding “illiteracy”) and slouching … Continue reading
My good friend Nick has a theory that smart people always lie because their intelligence leads them to become easily bored with social interaction, and many of them glean pleasure from messing with other, less-mentally-well-endowed individuals. Here is a quote taken from a comment on this entry where Nick explains this. I would never answer … Continue reading
I was innocently surfing tonight when I was all too suddenly broadsided by a careening semitrailer of technological illiteracy. 03:13:48 Unknown_Player(1): if i stick songs on itunes from a cd, do those songs take up a lot more space than an mp3 03:14:07 I: that’s what an mp3 is 03:14:14 I: a song that was … Continue reading
Over the past few years I’ve read more articles and papers on remix culture than I’m willing to admit. But after all the bullshit, I’m proud to have encountered a real, tangible example of it in the wild. On YouTube there’s a still-frame video posting of a song called “The Device Has Been Modified” by … Continue reading
I should probably start tagging a lot of my posts “boy-i-wish-were-a-lawyer.” I haven’t introduced that one yet, but I just might sometime soon. Just last week, a U.S. federal judge ruled that the court could not demand that a man accused of transporting child pornography across state lines divulge the passphrase for his encrypted hard … Continue reading