Absalom, Absalom!
And if you haven't got honor and pride, then nothing matters. Only there is something in you that doesn't care about honor and pride yet that lives, that even walks backward for a whole year just to live; that probably even when this is over and there is not even defeat left, will still decline to sit still in the sun and die, but will be back out in the woods, moving and seeking where just will and endurance could not move it, grubbing for roots and such--the old mindless sentient undreaming meat that doesn't even know any difference between despair and victory, Henry.
via MiessianicTime via 2.bp.blogspot.com
I think this is a pretty good metaphor for how I feel in graduate school sometimes.
Uhmmm, are you a cheetah or the gazelle-ish prey?
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On Allen Iverson, Aging and All-Stars |ESPN
This afternoon, writer Sherman Alexie e-mailed me that he was aghast that Allen Iverson would actually consider playing in next month’s All-Star game in Dallas. He said he was going to write a poem about it. Two hours after that, this arrived:
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Running Barefoot Reduces Stress—On Feet
Uhm, this makes sense…
SEXY PEOPLE: Glamour Grandmas pt.2
For @absalomabsalom! — this is what a real cougar looks like …
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Avatar and Ursula K. LeGuin: A Brief Note
The basic plot of this movie is a combination of two Ursula K. Le Guin stories, “Vaster than Empires and More Slow” and The Word for World is Forest. All there except for the Avatar itself, which is an excellent identification device, as we get to be both the Good Soldier and the Rebel. In particular, the Colonel is for all intents and purposes the bad guy from Forest. (photo link)
p.s. 3D IMAX is very, very awesome.
p.p.s. “A copy of The Word For World is Forest is visible at the bedside of the character Joker in a scene set in Vietnam in Stanley Kubrick’s film Full Metal Jacket” (wiki).
The age of the killer robot is no longer a sci-fi fantasy | Johann Hari, The Independent
One US report recently claimed they will turn war into “an essentially frictionless engineering exercise”.
Wait, we’ve made movies warning us about this, right?
Today: Penguin Awareness Day
“How to celebrate Penguin Awareness Day … Step 3: Replace your desktop wallpaper with penguin pictures.”
Um, already done.
Also, isn’t this also often Inauguration Day? Scientist not know much about the politics or what?
p.s. Sorry for the cheap points on science =/
p.p.s. At least they didn’t suggest that March of the Penguins movie for the kids. That was a horrible, horrible penguin snuff film that I wish, I wish I could unsee…
