October 2010
9 posts
Mark Vonnegut said this.
“The wisdom of my advancing years has not caught up to me yet. I still think it was the perfect thing to do.”
A little while ago, I went to the Harvard Book Store to hear Mark Vonnegut speak about his own mental illness, his famous father and the importance of art in both their lives.
Two things really stuck with me. The first was the necessity of writing; the second was this...
The Internet never lies.
Therefore, I write just like David Foster Wallace. Seriously. Here’s proof.
http://iwl.me/s/d7939cdb
(There should be a spiffy HTML badge there, but apparently Tumblr doesn’t go for that kind of nonsense. It doesn’t fit with the whole minimalistic aesthetic, I guess. But anyways. Click the link. Or just take my word for it.)
(Because I’m obsessive procrastinating...
Best Coast—‘Bratty B.’
This has...
one of those mornings
Today is one of those mornings where at 8am, you’re tripping up the stairs; at 9am, you’re deciding that there’s plenty of time for you to take a nap before your next class, and, in fact, it’d be the best possible idea EVER to do so; at 10am, you’re rushing out the door late after hitting the snooze button twice, making a large-but-mediocre cup of coffee and grabbing...
“I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are...”
– George Bernard Shaw
I told you Google is trying to take over the...
Here are some creepy things Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, said in the Washington Ideas Forum:
“Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.”
“With your permission you give us more information about you, about your friends, and we can improve the quality of our searches.”
“We don’t need you to type at all. We know where you are....
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Brian McGrory: A Free Press No More →
“Free doesn’t begin to pay for the expensive journalism that’s produced here. Free doesn’t pay for reporters who keep public officials and major institutions honest, and expose them when they’re not. It doesn’t pay for the best critics in the country, as we have. It doesn’t pay for some of the best education reporters, the most attuned environment and public health reporters, sophisticated...
